London Christmas Lights Tours

London Christmas Lights Gallery

The West End under its winter lights, in roughly the order a walk would take you, from the great curve of Regent Street down to the river. Weighing up a tour of the lights of London at Christmas? These are the displays your evening is built around.

The set opens on the angels that swoop over Regent Street, lit against a dusk sky and then a black one. Then come the side streets: peacock feathers of white and blue light, snowflakes and a floating snowman, curtains of gold stars.

After that, the smaller things a guide stops for: a reindeer of silver lights by a market hall and an arcade dressed in wreaths. It ends with the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, strung with its vertical lights beside the column, and across the river, where the trees are lit blue and the market huts glow on the far bank.