00:00For the fourth year on the run, a family home in Liverpool is putting on a sparkling display
00:06all in aid of a good cause. Helen and Marty Walsh are inviting people to their home in Hunt's Cross
00:12to see the synchronised light-up shows which illuminate their house in Palmerston Road
00:17throughout the festive period. It all came about Christmas 2020. My husband's seen a video on
00:22Facebook of Christmas lights synchronised to music and he looked into it and then he
00:29showed me some videos of it and it was like we've got to do it because he absolutely loved
00:34his Christmas lights. It was a case of adding bits every year. Helen says they've received
00:40nothing but positive comments about the light show even from their neighbours. So throughout 2021
00:47it took 10 months of planning and making everything. We tested it for the whole of
00:54the November and delivered a letter to all of the neighbours on the estate and
01:01they were all all for it and we invited them to a little preview show over three nights.
01:06Everyone is welcome to come and see their display. All they ask for is a donation which goes towards
01:10Alder Hey. It's a chosen charity they say because of all the wonderful work they do for the children
01:16in their care and their families. Their son Charlie has been helped by the hospital in the past and
01:20is now a healthy happy 11 year old. Alder Hey, just the fantastic work for the children especially
01:26with the donation that we done last year that went towards the MediCinema which only opened last
01:32weekend and it was just absolutely brilliant to see our money go to something so worthwhile for
01:40the children. The total amount raised for Alder Hey so far is more than £5,000 and they're hoping
01:45to raise even more this festive season. Each year since 2021 it has grown and they now have
01:51over 70,000 lights in the show. It's no wonder it takes almost a year to prepare for each show as
01:57it can take up to 50 hours of work to sequence just one song. It's more the technical side of
02:04things that takes the longest to put together to work out what we're putting in the shows,
02:09obtaining new songs. Each show lasts approximately 25 minutes and there are a wide variety of
02:15sequences including Christmas classics like the Pogues Fairytale of New York and current
02:20hip-hop songs like Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso. There's flashing lights, there's static lights,
02:27there's motifs, there's singing trees. The real stars of the show are the singing trees, Bruce
02:34the Spruce, his wife Penny Pine and their twin children Zeus and Clementine. It's people from
02:40far and wide. We've even had people who are visiting family up here from the likes of
02:46Salisbury down south. The Liverpool Christmas Light Show runs every day until Tuesday 31st
02:51of December at 6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm, 7.30pm, 8pm and 8.30pm.
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