16 Feb 2021
SWITCHED ON: Ian Kirkbride during the event
A VIRTUAL switch on of Barnard Castle’s Christmas lights has reached “cult status” after going viral in Japan.
The revelation was made by Phil Creighton, of the Christmas lights group, when
addressing the council’s partnerships committee this month. The switch on, which usually attracts a large crowd, was streamed to the group’s website last year because of Covid-19 restrictions.
Mr Creighton said: “We just can’t believe it went the way it did in the end, given within ten days of the event we still didn’t clearly understand how we were going to do it.