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Published:
December 1, 2008
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photos: Burnham-On-Sea's Trinity Close lights up for Christmas
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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.
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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.
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