Iain Nicol's house has become a well-known attraction in his local area
A grandad's Merseyside home is famously called the ' Christmas house' by local children despite him jokingly hating the festive holidays. Iain Nicol, helped by sons Paul and Ross and tolerant wife Denise, has decked out his property for the festive season for the past 30 years with the tradition beginning as a 'competition' between him and the in-laws.
My son put up a JustGiving page asking if people would like to contribute towards keeping the lights on and anything else we would give to charity. 'Sure enough, the first year we got enough to pay the bills and got a good amount to give to charity. The next couple of years after that, I’ve just put more money aside each month to pay the bill, so now all the money raised goes to charity. I think we did £600 last year.
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