The famous Sidney Road Lights in Southport is inviting people to its Lighting Up party this Saturday (11th December)!
The stunning event features the front garden of a house on Sidney Road in Southport PR9 7EX, which is covered with an illuminated Christmas tree and thousands of computerised Christmas lights which are synchronised to music.
It has all been created by local engineer and creator Steve Henshall.
The event will raise money for the Freshfields Animal rescue charity.
Shows will run 4.30pm-9pm daily every hour and half-hour.
Visitors can enjoy free hot drinks, sweets and children’s gifts.
Steve Henshall said: “Our Lighting Up Party is on Saturday 11th December at 6pm hosted by Sandgrounder Radio. We will have a group of naughty elves from Starkidz Elftastic Christmas Elves to keep us entertained between performances by Southport Costume Crew who you will remember from our successful Halloween show.
“To keep your tastebuds alert we have our friends from Chocolate Whirled bringing down some of their delicious artisan chocolates, they have also donated a gift voucher which we’ll raffle on the night.
“The event is generously sponsored by Fletchers Legal, we’re giving out hot chocolate, Quality Street and lots of freebies all in return for a donation to Freshfields Animal Rescue.”
The illuminated lights display is something which has grown over the past 20 years.
Steve said: “Back in 2001 when we moved to Southport we put up a few festoons of coloured lights for Christmas, these were the size of household bulbs in many different colours – they could have been stolen from Blackpool! We were one of the first in Southport to take Christmas lighting seriously, there were no £4.99 strings of LED lights back then!
“In the intervening years we’ve put up the odd string of lights and then last year we made a tree from just a couple of strings of LED lights from The Range, it was incredible how many comments we got from such a simple thing.
“Spurred on by this we researched LED smart pixels which are small lights containing red, green and blue LEDs in the one ‘bulb’. Each colour of LED in each pixel can be controlled by a bespoke controller and computer program. The challenge was on! After months and months of work the 2016 display was revealed and drew crowds of spectators even better we raised over £200 for Freshfields.
“Our 2019 show was spectacular! We increased to over 23,000 lights, raised almost £1,600 for Freshfields Animal Rescue and had even more visitors. We even had Paul Crone and Kerrie Gosney from Granada Reports hosting a live outside broadcast from the show.
“The design team (Jaffa and I) have been working long hours and spending all our money ready for the 2020 show which as you know was cancelled due to the pandemic.
“Moving on….2021 is all set with a brand new Christmas show.”
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