UK's 'most festive pub' includes wine-bottle snowman and 55,000 Christmas lights

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Britain’s 'most festive pub' has become home to a 26-foot snowman - made from 2,500 wine bottles.  The Queen Victoria Inn in Priddy, Somerset, has been putting on Christmas lights displays for the past decade - as a way to raise funds for charity.  This year the popular pub features a huge wreath on the side of the building, a Christmas tree and a snowman made from hundreds of empty wine bottles.  The pub is also covered in 55,000 Christmas lights collected over the years and 15km of cabling.

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00:00I'm Mark Walton, the landlord of the Queen Victoria Inn in Priddy.

00:03The display started about 2018 as a bit of a laugh and then it just developed from that.

00:12Christmas tree was first with the lights and then it just so many people turned up for it

00:18so the next year we did the gingerbread inn and then the snowman.

00:22In total there's 3,600 boxes with a tree and a snowman.

00:33Ten days put it together with an electrician and a couple of volunteers and everything so

00:38yeah it's a mad panic for the day to make sure everything works

00:42on that big switch on which it did.

00:45And what do the punters think of it?

00:48They love it. I mean in about half an hour, an hour it'll be jam-packed,

00:55water-warm like giant moths.

00:57Always new ideas but obviously keeping them under wraps until next year so always new ideas.

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