Barn-storming Yorkshire Christmas promised at refurbished venue
The restored Thirsk Lodge Barns is launching its inaugural Christmas Market and Father Christmas Experience.
The Barns, which opened in August this year after a multi-million pound refurbishment, is holding a special shopping preview evening on Friday December 17, starting at 6pm. The Christmas Market will then be open daily until Thursday December 23.
Situated on Newsham Road, on the outskirts of Thirsk, the Barns has already established itself as a popular wedding venue.
Owner, Letty Hunter Bell, said: “We are tremendously excited and proud to be hosting our first-ever Christmas Market. The restoration of the old barns has been a real labour of love, but they now look wonderful.
“They have already proved to be a successful wedding venue, but my husband Will and I are also very keen to establish the Barns as a leading events, business and conference centre for the town of Thirsk and beyond. Our Christmas Market is a major step in this direction.
“We have managed to attract almost 70 different stalls for the market, all from the local community, which is crucially important to us.
“One of our key aims is to invest in, and promote, the many fine young independent businesses in North Yorkshire – and especially in the Thirsk area.
“There is a wide range of stallholders and a mouth-watering array of festive gifts at our inaugural market.”
Apart from the stalls, there will be a Father Christmas Experience, a guinea pig nativity scene, real reindeer, a charity reindeer art competition, a festive photo booth and baubles and biscuits decorating. The reindeer competition will be held in aid of Rural Arts, Thirsk.
Stalls will include Yorkshire wine merchants Firth and Co and hand-crafted gift company Fetlock and Feathers.
Other stallholders will be: Vixen and Todd; Name on Knit; Sweet Retreat; Love That Clay; York Gin; Luna Wolf Jewellery; the Wax Lord; House of Crumbs; Richmond Brewery; Yorkshire Hive; and Badass Bakery.
