Is this Britain's most festive pub? Display includes 'wine bottle snowman' and 55,000 lights
ITV News' Ben McGrail captures the festive fun at The Queen Victoria in Priddy, Somerset
A Somerset pub is rapidly getting a name for itself as Britain’s most festive inn.
The Queen Victoria Inn, in Priddy, Somerset, has been putting on spectacular Christmas lights displays for the past decade.
This year the pub features a huge wreath on the side of the building as well as its popular Christmas tree and a snowman made from hundreds of empty wine bottles.
Landlord Mark Walton says it has raised more than £25,000 for Children’s Hospice South West in the past five years.
“Why wouldn’t you support them over Christmas?”, he said. “When some of the kids and families are going through such a hard time it’s got to be done.”
The display is made from around 55,000 lightbulbs and approximately 15km of cabling. The snowman is made from 2,500 bottles, while the tree has 1,100.
Visitors now come from far and wide to see the spectacle and donate to the charity.
Mark says he’s already got plans for next year, and is likely to once again rope in his friend Ben, who made the frames for the snowman and Christmas tree.
Mark said: “My mate Ben Selway hates the phone call that says ‘I’ve got this great idea’, which he always puts into practice!”