A Burnham-On-Sea cul-de-sac whose impressive display of Christmas lights has been featured on national TV several times in recent years burst into colour on Monday evening (December 1st) when residents lit up their homes.
Crowds of spectators watched the eight Trinity Close homes, gardens and trees get illuminated with thousands of lights when residents held a Christmas street party.
Members of Burnham’s Curtain Call drama group were also hand (pictured) to provide festive tunes to the onlookers.
In total 90,000 light bulbs are lighting up Trinity Close at a cost of just £13 a week, thanks to environmentally friendly bulbs.
The tradition was started 10 years ago by Nick Gardner, 40, and wife Hazel, 39, with neighbours Chris Woodberry, 62, and his late wife Christine, who died earlier this year aged 61.
Mr Gardner, an electrician, spends two full days fitting 15,000 lights to his house each November. He said: “It all started about 10 years ago when the Woodberrys and us started putting lights up on the outside of our houses. There’s probably 15,000 lights on our house and that’s about the average.”
“Thanks to energy-saving light bulbs it only costs me about £80 extra on top of my normal electricity bill for the whole six weeks.”
The lights are lit between 4pm and 10pm each day until January 6. Thousands of pounds are again expected to be raised for the charity Petal: The Christine Woodberry Memorial Trust. The lights have been featured on breakfast television station GMTV in 2006 and 2004.
