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Winter nights and Christmas lights.

 

Putting up Christmas lights in the UK started with candles on German-style Christmas trees popularised by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the 1840s, but electric lights for trees became established by the 1880s-1890s, with early electric "fairy lights" appearing in public buildings like the Savoy Theatre (1881) and on trees by the early 1900s, becoming a widespread tradition as electricity spread in homes post-WWI

 

Wellington, Somerset, UK.

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