Every Christmas, under the cover of winter's cold darkness, houses are lit up like Christmas trees and tastefully decorated with Santas, snowmen, reindeer and bucketfuls of fake snow.
In Greyhound Close, Hedge End, Hants, a quiet neighbourhood has attracted hundreds of people in the run up to Christmas as it has been transformed into a spectacular winter wonderland
For the past 25 years Jason Hoban and wife Lisa have turned the outside of their west London home into a magical Christmas walkabout raising money for charities. Dubbed the House O Christmas, highlights at the semi detached in Bedfont include a handmade red sleigh and reindeer, a light-up snowman and a virtual Santa.
The exterior of the Churchill Arms pub in Kensington in London has been decorated with over 70 Christmas trees
Christmas lights on a house in Torrington Road in Wellingborough, Northants
Newton Heath, Manchester
Christmas lights on display in New Milton, Hampshire where each year a group of residents on Byron Road switch on their lights to raise money for local charities
In Bristol, the Brailsford family decorated their home for charity as people gather to visit the beautiful display
Brailsford family's house is decorated with many winter animals including seals by a little lake
Welcome to Britain's most festive cul-de-sac. Residents of Trinity Close, Burnham on Sea, Somerset have decorated their home for the festive season with almost 100,000 blazing Christmas lights. Six families paid around £3,000 each for 15,000 fairy lights which cover their homes and gardens.
This display in Bristol is put up by brothers Paul and Lee Brailsford on their mother's house. Lee and Paul began decorating their home 18 years ago - starting with a single Christmas tree. But their collection of decorations has grown so rapidly that it now includes tens of thousands of lights. Over a thousand people turned out for the switch-on with money raised going towards Bristol Children's Hospital
Oscar Sealey, 6, looks at the Brailsford Christmas Lights on the shoulders of his father Paul Sealey
A private house in St Neots Road, Sandy, Bedfordshire is annually illuminated with an amazing display of christmas decorations and lights
A house on New Street, Bicester, Oxfordshire has turned over 50,000 lightbulbs on for the festive season
A home in Highgate decorated with Christmas decorations
The residents of Byron Close in New Milton, Hampshire light up thier homes with Christmas lights and decorations with the donations from visitors going to local charities New Milton Hampshire England...The residents of Byron Close in New Milton light up thier homes with Christmas lights and decorations The residents of Byron Close in New Milton light up thier homes with Christmas lights and decorations with the donations from visitors going to local charities
Michael Farnes, 52, has decorated the outside of his home in Hangleton, East Sussex, so much that there is no room to fit anything else in his front garden. The stunning display even includes a seven foot Christmas tree and and five foot snowman.
Cooll. If the whole town doing this.. the city would be a christmass theme city..