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Neighbours across Bristol create Advent displays in their front windows
Bellevue Crescent is just one of the roads across Bristol where neighbours have joined forces to create Advent displays in their front windows.
Due to social distancing regulations, the displays have mostly been arranged across social media groups – with a different home being given a different number to be revealed throughout December until Christmas Eve.
On Bellevue Crescent, the display is accessorised by lights strung across the Cliftonwood cul-de-sac overlooking Brandon Hill.
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“This street has always had an amazing sense of community but lockdown has without doubt made it even stronger,” said Izzy Norman, who lives on Bellevue Crescent with her husband, Richard, a lawyer, and their three children.
Izzy helped arrange the advent windows for the first time last year with the help of another resident, Liz Haughton, with a sign-up sheet on the street’s noticeboard.
Santa gets stuck down the chimney on Bellevue Crescent in Cliftonwood – photo: Martin Booth
“People enjoyed doing it so much that I was being asked this November when the sign-up sheet would be going up! This year we have more than 24 households participating so sometimes there are two windows to find on one day!
“I made our advent window, Father Christmas stuck in the chimney, because I’ve got young children so the big man in red needed to feature. My five-year-old thought it was hilarious!”
Bellevue Crescent is a very narrow dead-end road, so anyone wanting to come and see the advent windows and lights is strongly advised to come on foot, with Bristol24/7’s visit to the road coinciding with the Massie family: mum Hazel and dad Alex, and children Iris, eight, and Quinn, three, walking from their own home in Cliftonwood.
A bit of rain was not going to put off the Massie family from visiting the windows – photo: Martin Booth
Matthew Price and his housemates designed a window with a Muppets Christmas Carol theme – photo: Martin Booth
Bellevue Crescent’s Advent windows feature in one of Bellevue Crescent’s Advent windows – photo: Martin Booth
Main photo: Izzy Norman
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