The Magical Lantern Festival returned to Birmingham for the Christmas 2017 season, but this time at Kings Heath Park, having been at the Botanical Gardens the year before. I only really saw it in the daylight hours. Looked "magical" with the snow of December 2017. Did return once more at Christmas Eve, but didn't book a ticket to see after dark.

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Magical Lantern Festival 2017 at Kings Heath Park





The Magical Lantern Festival returned to Birmingham for the Christmas 2017 season, but this time at Kings Heath Park, having been at the Botanical Gardens the year before. I only really saw it in the daylight hours. Looked "magical" with the snow of December 2017. Did return once more at Christmas Eve, but didn't book a ticket to see after dark.


See also my Magical Lantern Festival post on the 2016 event at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

After getting some initial daylight photos from the 11A or 11C buses on the Vicarage Road in November 2017, I went to Kings Heath Park on the 8th December 2017 after it had snowed. Tickets to go after 5pm would have been anywhere between £15 to £17. But Kings Heath Park was open as normal before then for free.

A pink canopy of roses surrounded by snow.

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Santa with his reindeer near the entrance.

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Would assume that at nightfall you would walk under this archway.

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Snow covered presents, Christmas trees and a house with a boy.

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Snow covered elf.

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I wan't sure if this was Angry Birds or Rio?

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Santa clock lamppost.

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Red boot with presents.

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Reindeer covered in snow looking sky blue in colour.

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2017 "Merry Christmas" and Santa on a relaxing armchair reading a list of kids present wishes. Why fly to Lapland when you could go to Kings Heath Park (2 years ago that is).

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I last came back on Christmas Eve 2017, by then the snow had melted, so looked a lot less Christmasy.

Fun fair rides under wraps. They probably open them up just before it gets dark. In the day they were covered over.

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Polar bears. Now if only I got them with the snow.

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Some kind of flowers I would guess.

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Polar bears again from another angle.

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Oh look it's the red boot with presents again, but no snow this time.

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Giant butterfly on a tree.

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More flowers along side a path, on the leaf covered soil area.

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In the pond was a frog (I think). Or some kind of pond monster?

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These swans look real, but they are jusr Magical Lanterns!

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The Birmingham skyline. I would guess this would look nice lit up after dark.

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Link to the Botanical Gardens post Magical Lantern Festival 2016 Birmingham Botanical Gardens .

More photos here on my Flickr Magical Lantern Festival including photos from 2016 to 2018.

Photos taken by Elliott Brown.

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