UK's oldest Xmas lights bought in 1969 switched on - and no bulbs need replacing

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Vina Shaddick paid just £3 for the lights during a shopping trip to Woolworths in 1969, and when she died in 2019 they were inherited by her son Ross Farr-Semmens, 42

Britain’s oldest fairy lights are lighting up another Christmas tree - for the 53rd consecutive year.When she died in 2019 they were inherited by her son Ross Farr-Semmens, 42.He said: “It is literally magic that they can still be part of all the Christmas festivities. It’s an important new year for the lights and my family.

 

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I’ve got some ‘Nursery Rhyme’ lights bought sometime in the 1950s. No proof of age and admittedly some have had new bulbs. Inherited from my mother in law. Not put up yet.

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