The Metropolis

Categorising London locations by who switched on their Christmas lights

Mike Pollitt | Tuesday 11 December, 2012 12:07

The grimly commercial

Oxford St – Robbie Williams
Westfield West – Taylor Swift
Westfield East – Rihanna

You can try to resist their light-switching abilities and keep your wallet in your pocket. But. You. Will. Fail.

The grimly uncommerical

Bluewater – Singer Conor Maynard
Ealing – Britain’s Got Talent stars Loveable Rogues

You probably can resist their light-switching abilities.

Places so confident, or cash-strapped, they went with the celeb next door

Marylebone High St – Claudia Winkleman
Croydon – Laila Morse off Eastenders

You could just imagine them popping round and switching on your living room light’

Jumpers on the unstoppable bandwagon

Regent St – Team GB & Paralympics GB

These guys are switching on lights at 4 o’clock in the morning while your fingers are still aching from switching them off the night before. How does that make you feel?

Serving up a sweet, but confusing cocktail

Fulham – The borough’s oldest resident, 102 year-old Lily Davies, plus Chelsea players Victor Moses, Eden Hazard and Cesar Azpilicueta

What on earth did they talk about? Lights, presumably.

Aaaaah-chway
Archway – Anais Higgins, who won a festive poster design competition and attends St John’s Upper Holloway CofE Primary School

God bless us, every one.

See also:

Relive the excitement of the Christmas light-switchers of 2011 (WARNING – contains multiple Larry Lambs).

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