Friends of the Valentine Lamp

17/02/2026

What a lovely pic. 🌹

16/02/2026

A lovely post by the Frome Times 🥰

16/02/2026

What an amazing ceremony on Saturday! ♥️

16/02/2026

The Frome Valentine Lamp website has now been updated with the poems and the full film which can be seen here: https://fromevalentinelamp.co.uk/index.php/previous-ceremonies/

15/02/2026

Some lovely pics shared by the Mayor of Frome from yesterday evening's lamp lighting ceremony. If you have any pics you'd like to share please send them in. 💕

12/02/2026

Lovely post from the Frome Times. Not long now. ♥️

Valentine lamp lighting ceremony returns this week

The annual Valentine lamp lighting ceremony is being held this Saturday 14th February at the top of Catherine Hill.

The ceremony sees Frome’s famous Valentine gas lamp lit by Eddie Young, the lamplighter, who will be dressed in period costume and light the lamp using a traditional lamplighter’s pole and read the dedication to St Valentine.

Selected poems, on the theme of love, will be performed by the members of the Frome Writers Collective Poetry Group.

The event will start at 5.30pm when a Queen of Hearts rocket will be set off and explode in a red heart shape in the sky above the lamp.

Read more here: https://buff.ly/eZqGc4U

Pictured: Eddie Young lighting the Valentine’s lamp in 2025

07/02/2026

What a lovely post from Deadly is the Female, with their fabulous frocks. Not long to go now! 💕

06/02/2026

We love this couple's picture by the lamp that was shared with us a few years ago on either FB or Instagram, but message has disappeared. If this was you please get in touch, as we'd really like to use your image in our book on the lamp.

20/01/2026

So lovely to be covered in the Frome Times! 🥰

Valentine lamp lighting ceremony returns next month

The annual Valentine lamp lighting ceremony is being held on Saturday 14th February at the top of Catherine Hill.

The ceremony sees Frome’s famous Valentine gas lamp lit by Eddie Young, the lamplighter, who will be dressed in period costume and light the lamp using a traditional lamplighter’s pole and read the dedication to St Valentine.

Selected poems, on the theme of love, will be performed by the members of the Frome Writers Collective Poetry Group.

The event will start at 5.30pm when a Queen of Hearts rocket will be set off and explode in a red heart shape in the sky above the lamp.

Organisers say, “Join us for a glass of mulled wine in front of the lamp with accordion music by Tom Woolman.”

Read more here: https://buff.ly/4FoSs6Z

Pictured: Reg Ling handing over duties to new lamplighter Eddie Young last year.

18/01/2026

Please join us on Saturday 14th February, for the annual lighting of the Valentine Lamp. In Frome we celebrate love! 💕