Nestled in the heart of Bristol City Centre is the largest Christmas market in the city, showcasing many local businesses. But this years Christmas market also showcases award winning holly from enhanced entertainment to get the party started in the iconic jäger barn bar.
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00:00Welcome aboard, I am here on the Christmas Express train right in the centre of Bristol's
00:06Christmas Market. Let's chat to their team to find out more. Bye!
00:13So we're at Bristol Christmas Market and we're upstairs in the Jagerbahn bar today.
00:16OK, so Bristol Christmas Market is a focal point for people of Bristol. Every year we're
00:21here from the first week of November right through to the 23rd of December. We've got
00:26over 35 stalls selling all sorts of gifts and ideas for friends and family, from homemade,
00:34handmade jewellery right up to light fittings, art. Then we've also got a number of food
00:39stalls as well, selling some fantastic Christmas treats to eat and enjoy here at the market
00:43or to take home for loved ones as well. We've also got a number of bars as well, so we're
00:47in the Jagerbahn bar at the moment. Tell me about the premise of this stall then
00:53Yes, so Pryor Shop is all about bringing back shops from yesteryear basically, so handmade
01:00products by local people and really good quality.
01:04We're really, really pleased that we get quite a lot of people who want to come back every
01:09year because they see Bristol Christmas Market as a fantastic opportunity for them to increase
01:14their trade and we have application forms and we're usually full up by mid-April or
01:20May the year before. We've got a mixture of local businesses as well as some national
01:27businesses who may be at other Christmas markets as well. For example, we've got O'Donnell's
01:31Moonshine here this year. Again, they've got a store in Cabot Circus, so they use the Bristol
01:36Christmas Market really as a way of reaching customers who may not see their product usually.
01:40And you're a local business, right? So what do you think it means to you guys to come
01:45and have a stall at one of the biggest events in the city at Christmas?
01:50It's just an incredible place to be. There's so many new people coming in and out all the
01:53time and we've got so many different types of products, not just on the stall here at
01:58the market, but in the two shops that we've got around the corner. It's just a really
02:02great opportunity to get our products out there and show people that handmade, good
02:09quality things, locally made as well, can be found in the middle of a commercial corporate
02:16shopping centre. We're the only shop that is independent, locally and handmade right
02:23in the middle of all the big corporates.
02:25So we've got ski gondolas here, which have been used previously in some of Europe's top
02:28ski resorts. So customers can book a gondola, their own personal gondola for 90 minutes
02:33and we can serve them nice warming drinks in there for them. We've also got this year
02:38our escape room called the Candy Factory, which is situated just outside the Jaeger
02:43Bamba. We've also got a train ride this year as well, which is new for us, so that's been
02:47really popular.
02:48This is our first year here, so it's all a bit unknown for us, but everyone else has
02:52been here, well a lot of other people have been here for many years and yeah, it's an
02:58incredible community.