Saturday night seemed to be the preferred night for towns and villages across the county to hold their Christmas lights switch-on.

Not to be outdone, John Walker and Stevie Adams decided to hold their lights switch-on ceremony on the same day.

The display at the semi-detached house in Castle Road, Allington, which the couple share, rivals many villages’ in its complexity.

It involves 9,000 bulbs, 800m of cable, 80 plugs and sockets, and the whole display is co-ordinated to music broadcast over the radio.

Visitors can pull up in their cars, tune into 106.1 FM, and hear the music and watch the synchronised display.

Mr Adams said: “It’s taken us months and months in planning and just co-ordinating the music to the light sequences was 150 hours of work.”

The music includes several songs from Frozen, some Harry Potter, Shakin Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone and Silent Night, but the broadcasts can only be picked up from within a few hundred metres of the house.

Mr Adams, 31, who works in health insurance, said: “There are two shows, each lasting about 12 minutes, and we run them alternately on the half hour starting at 5pm with the last at 9pm.

Mr Adams and his partner, Mr Walker, 40, a logistics advisor, reckon the display has set them back £4,000.

They hope that everyone who enjoys the lights will make a contribution to the Heart Of Kent Hospice via their Just Giving page: www.justgiving.com/LightingUpAllington/

Or fans can make a £5 donation to the hospice by texting: LIGH77 £5 to 70070.