Couple spends £8,000 on turning their house red for Remembrance Day display

Jackie North, 37, has decorated her Lincolnshire house in lights to markRemembrance Day (Picture: Jackie North / SWNS)

A couple has spent £8,000 turning their home red with hundreds of lights to create a Remembrance Day display.

Jackie North and husband Sean, both 37, first decorated their home to mark Armistice Day in 2022.

But this year they decided to go bigger and better to remember all those who have given their lives in war.

The property in Keelby, Lincolnshire., is now decorated with 12,000 lights and two giant poppies to mark the laying down of arms at 11am on November 11, 1918.

Locals are stopping by to see the magnificent display(Picture: Jackie North / SWNS)

Jackie turned on the lights on Tuesday – and said the street has been filled with traffic and people wanting to pay their respects ever since.

The school kitchen assistant said: ‘We did Remembrance last year but we didn’t have anywhere near as many lights.

‘We had a poppy on the tree and in front of the garage with some lights.

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‘This year we have doubled our show to make it a lot nicer – we love lights so we keep adding more.’

Jackie North, 37, and husband Sean, also 37, wanted to mark Remembrance Day in a spectacular display(Picture: SWNS)

The pair say they spent £8000 on their Remembrance display.

But she says it is worth it because everyone thinks they are ‘beautiful’.

Jackie said: ‘We wanted to pay our respects in our own way.

‘It is really important we remember, we are here because of what the older generation did for us.

The whole house has been covered in 12,000 lights to mark today’s Armistice Day (Picture: Jackie North / SWNS)

‘Everyone loves the lights, we have had quite a few visitors last night – there has been a lot of traffic.’

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