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. After months and months of work the 2016 display was revealed and drew crowds of spectators even better we raised over £200 for Freshfields. We increased to over 23,000 lights, raised almost £1600 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 our and spending all our money ready for the 2020 show which as you know was cancelled due to the pandemic. Moving on....the 2021 season has been a blast with unbelievable crowds for two nights at Halloween and a brilliant turnout for all the Christmas shows. Thanks to your generosity we beat our target and raised £2060 for Freshfields Animal Rescue. Now what’s next - watch this space as Jaffa and I get started!
