Wallace & Gromit Christmas Light Show at Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station is no stranger to sparkling spectacles. The Grade II-listed Art Deco masterpiece has appeared in Hitchcock films and on the cover of Pink Floyd’s seminal album Animals, and last Christmas featured festive illuminations designed by non other than David Hockney. Now it’s the turn of Aardman – the multi-award-winning studio that created Wallace & Gromit – to bring some festive cheer to Europe’s largest brick building via an animated light show illuminating the Power Station’s 101-metre-high chimneys. Taking place after dark each day until the New Year, the show features a short stop-motion animation crafted from 6,000 individual frames, in which the iconic duo decorate a pair of giant Christmas trees in their own distinctive styles, despite the mischievous Feathers McGraw’s attempts to sabotage their endeavours. Visitors heading to the Power Station for a bit of Christmas shopping will be able to watch the animation from 5.30pm-10.30pm daily throughout December. And be sure to check out the magnificent Christmas decorations elsewhere on the 42-acre site, which include more than 150 Christmas trees lining the Turbine Halls, as well as a 40ft specimen decorated with over 1,500 baubles at the front of the building. It doesn’t get much more festive than that!