The Festival ends but the trees go on!

All good things must come to an end.  So it was on Tuesday 3rd January when a team of hard workers came in to church to take down the trees and clean up the building.

The Church looked a bit sad during the process with bedraggled trees, overflowing bags of decorations and pine needles everywhere!





However the trees were moved on to be useful elsewhere.  Andy packed them all into his van and drove them to the National Trust, Formby where, in the fullness of time, they will be used to help stabilise the eroding sand dunes.
Of course all 36 did not fit in the van so he had to make three trips.


It was an extremely windy day so when he got there he could hardly open the van and was practically blown over as he carried the trees to the pile.
Nevertheless The National Trust were pleased to receive them even though they represent a lot of hard work for their staff and volunteers in the forthcoming months.

It is also good for us to know that the trees have not been wasted. 

If you get a chance to visit The National Trust look out for our trees (amongst many others) strung out across the sand dunes!