A HOUSE dubbed the ‘Home Alone’ house of Bromley Cross has been lit up for Christmas.

Parents Nikki and Craig Owen have lived at their home, in Saxby Avenue, for nine years.

Each year the couple, who have two daughters, Hollie and Hannah, bring festive cheer to their street by lighting up their house in thousands of LED lights.

This year the family organised an unofficial light switch-on, to raise money for Turton Rotary Club.

In aid of the event residents were invited to watch the house be lit up in all its glory and Santa on his sleigh even arrived for the festivities.

Daughter Miss Owen, aged 28, said: “My dad has always liked his Christmas lights and has put lights on each year.

“But this year he decided he wanted more lights.

“He and my mum have been putting the lights up since about mid-November, because they have been putting them up on weekends when they aren’t working.”

The 4,000 lights span the house, around the conifers in the garden and there are also separate decorations including a polar bear family and candy canes.

Miss Owen added: “People have said the house looks like the one on Home Alone and people do bring their kids up to see it.

“It isn’t tacky, the idea is to use the LED lights to make it look like snow.”

Residents were invited on December 1 to the ‘unofficial light switch-on’ and Father Christmas and the Turton Rotary Club were also there to meet and greet.

Donations from the evening will go to the Rotary Club.

There will also be a 15 foot reindeer lit up in Grange Road, at 4.30pm on Sunday, in aid of Bolton Hospice.