BANBURY

LSD Promotions, in partnership with Banbury BID are very excited to announce that applications are now OPEN to traders for the Banbury Victorian Christmas Market 2022, taking place from Friday 25th until Sunday 27th November.   

100 stalls, street performers, live entertainment, and all-round Festive fun.  Full details to be released in early September  To apply for this brand new and prestigious event.

You will require a membership contract before making an application, if you do not have one already.  Before making an application, please be aware that this event is strictly Victorian dress during trading hours and is not optional.  

With a little creative thought and improvisation, it is easy to put your own outfit together. There were various styles and representation of the Victorian era. Affluent, elegant ladies and gentlemen of the time, fine dresses with bustles, feathered hats and parasols, waistcoated gents in top hats, pocket watches & walking canes. On the flip side, there were rogues, pick pockets, flower sellers, chimney sweeps and ladies of the night, poverty and dirty faces.  

An old overcoat with a flat cap and a neck scarf, boots, fingerless gloves, women in mop caps and aprons, flowing skirts, high neck blouses, a tavern dress with a shawl. If you are having difficulties with inspiration, think Oliver, Bill Sykes and Nancy, Mary Poppins, Peaky blinders.  Charity shops have a range of inexpensive possibilities as a starting point, but please feel free to contact the office who can give further advice, or if you just need a bit of inspiration.   

The spirit of this event is crucial to its ongoing success, and we expect traders to exercise professionalism at all times, but also to see it as an opportunity of self-expression, the opportunity to be part of something truly festive and magnificent, bigger than ‘just a market’, this is the time to get on board, spread some Christmas cheer and sell out!    

This event is operated in partnership with Banbury BID and supported By Banbury Town Council and Cherwell District Council.