Redruth will be hosting a festive day of fun where they will be switching on their Christmas lights from the Miner Statue on Saturday, November 25. 

Joining the party is Father Christmas, Redruth Town Mayor Cllr Stephen Barnes and guest Chris Hailey, chair of the Redruth Charity Trust.  

The Redruth Carol Choir will be performing moments before the countdown for the switch-on which begins at 5.30pm. 

The Children’s Lantern Parade assemble at the Top of Fore Street at 4.45pm. It will then process down Fore Street to the Miner Statue. Once there the lanterns will surround the statue for the switch-on. 

As the lights are illuminated, the traditional Mummers Play will be taking place on the corner of Alma Place, behind the Miner Statue where there will fire breathing Dragon. 

Throughout the day you can pose for photographs in Santa’s light up sleigh and reindeer at Kresen Kernow and there will be a free Winter Woodland Grotto at Redruth Community Centre.  

You’ll be able to join the Redruth Wassail who are having an evening of traditional singing and dancing around the town. It’s Redruth’s once popular wassail tradition that occurs on the last Saturday of November every year. 

Singing begins on Market Strand at 4pm, the they are joining the Lantern Parade and switch-on and finishing up at the Redruth Drapery for a Wassail After-Party. 

The Ladder Christmas Market will be the place to be for a vintage clothes market, Santa’s grotto, music, activities and much more. 

There will be a festive late-night market in Market Strand and Market Hall, somewhere to visit festive traders selling gifts, crafts, festive treats, hot food and drinks plus live music. 

On November 24 and 25, St Andrew’s Church will be hosting a Christmas Craft Market where beautiful handmade gifts, home made cakes, books, refreshments and lunches will be available. 

Camborne BID and Camborne Town Council have been busy organising various festive activities before Christmas, including the lights switch-on on Friday, November 24.   

Entertainment will begin from 2pm in and around Camborne and at the main stage on Commercial Square at 3pm with the rhythmic sounds of the Jumping Out jazz duo.  

The fun continues when they are followed by Camborne Town Band at 4pm, young people’s dance troupe the TR14ers at 4.30pm, Holman Climax Male Voice Choir at 4.50pm and the Bryher Boys shanty group from 5.15pm.  

Traditional features like the thirty-foot real Nordman Fir tree in the town’s square, swathes of street Christmas light displays and a model Santa on his bench will be in place. 

The annual Children’s Lantern Parade, organised by Camborne Town Council and local schools, will leave St Meriadoc Infant School at 5.45pm and stilt walkers, elves and living statues will entertain the crowds throughout the town.   

Eleven schools are providing a wide variety of lanterns on the theme of a ‘Cornish Christmas’ ranging from a basking shark to a tin mine. 

The parade begins on Rectory Road and will move along Church Street, Fore Street, Trelowarren Street, Union Street, across Cross Street to Commercial Street, where the parade will end by Tyacks. 

The lights switch-on will commence at 6.30pm where the town will come alive with twinkling lights and a real Christmas tree. 

BID Camborne and local businesses have also arranged and paid for free parking that will be available at Trevithick Car Park throughout the course of the event.  

Trevithick will also have free parking spaces for Saturday, December 9 and 16, as well as Wednesday, December 20.