Porlock Late Night Shopping on Saturday 9th December starting at 4.00 PM
Porlock residents and visitors will be treated to a wonderful evening full of entertainment, festive refreshment, and lots of Late Night Christmas Shopping from our unique and individual High Street shops on Saturday 9th December.
Porlock will be lit up with hundreds of Christmas lights, trees and shop window displays, transforming the High Street into a winter wonderland filled with music and dance from 6pm from the West Somerset Brass Band and the Morris Dancers, Bettina serenading shoppers, and the children of St Dubricius School setting the festive scene singing carols at the Church at 4.15pm.
Come and see Porlock’s Santa Festival and follow the Santa Trail with life-sized to mini Santas displayed in a variety of fun and festive poses all along the High Street, with shops, businesses, accommodation providers, pubs and restaurants taking part. And don’t forget to visit the Christmas Tree Festival at St Dubricius Church, opening at 4pm on Late Night Shopping. A host of Imaginatively decorated trees by local community groups representing a Christmas carol or song will be on display until 3rd January, so have fun trying to guess the song depicted. There are prizes for the tree that most visitors match with the Christmas song and for the visitor who matches most trees correctly.
Dovery Manor Museum will be welcoming visitors with lots of festive food and drink and their fantastic Christmas Hamper Raffle. The Visitor Centre will be open from4-8pm at the Old School Centre and the Library will be opening with a professional face painter, free for children, from 6pm – 8pm, plus a massive book sale and other surprises - follow the Library Facebook page for updates.
Keep an eye out for some local Steampunk fans and their friends, dressed in their amazing costumes, who will be joining us to promote their Steampunk themed event coming to Porlock next year. If you want to get suited and booted and add to the Steampunk experience, they would be very happy to see you at Late Night Shopping.
Visit the inspirational While We Still Can pop-up shop Down to Zero, have a piece of cake, and they'll help you make a pledge to reduce your plastic use. For every pledge, a piece of plastic will be removed –Late Night Shopping is the target date of getting to zero.
And, of course, Father Christmas will be visiting Porlock! Visit him in his magical Santa’s Grotto at the Olde Chapel. At 7.00pm get ready for the ever popular Santa Dash from Doverhay to the Top Ship - whatever your age or shape, get your Santa suit on (for sale at The Bagatelle if you don’t have one) and get ready to race along the High Street, or stand back and cheer on the dashing Santas!
There will be lots of other surprises along the High Street, hosted by the shops and businesses, so please come and join us for a wonderful evening of fun and festivity.