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Get ready
to welcome Christmas with Newbattle
Abbey College
The
event will be held on Saturday 17th November from 11am to 4pm in the
College’s beautiful historic building.
The
festivities include a stunning Christmas Craft Fair with a vast range of
individual stallholders set to attend offering a wide range of delicious,
beautiful and unique festive treats in the Edwin Muir Room and the quaint Crypt
area of the College.
There
will be festive music, song and poetry readings held in the College’s exquisite
Drawing Room and Chapel with Newbattle’s very own ‘Rough and Ready Choir’
leading the carols. The choir, made up of 30 staff, students and local friends
and family, will be performing a repertoire of Christmas songs, old and new,
from around the world. Visitors will also be treated to some Gaelic singing and
language taster sessions.
There’s
also word a very special guest is set to pop in from the North Pole just to
visit all the well behaved children of Midlothian .
Rumour has it Santa’s due to make a stop at the College!
For
those looking to enjoy the outdoors, the ‘Christmas at Newbattle’ fair will
also provide winter woodland walks for anyone wishing to take part in a tour of
the College’s extensive and breathtaking grounds. Tour guides will lead
organised groups along the stunning river bank or into the ancient woodlands.
There
will also be an opportunity to purchase logs and kindling as well as bird
feeders and boxes produced in the College by the current Rural Skills students.
For
those who wish to warm up inside there will be hot soup, snacks and mulled wine
available throughout the day.
The
event costs £2 for adults and is free for children with free parking facilities
also.
For further
information, please call Newbattle
Abbey College
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