Meet Britain's most festive man - who's has over TEN THOUSAND decorations in his Sussex home
Geoff Stonebanks spends over a week putting them up each year
A Sussex man - crowned Britain's most festive - has adorned his home with an impressive display of over 10,000 Christmas decorations.
Geoff Stonebanks has gained national attention for his annual multi-room showcase of baubles, trees, and trinkets.
The 72-year-old spends around a week each Christmas hanging up the collection, which has taken him 60 years to put together.
He told Greatest Hits Radio that the tradition began during childhood, watching his parents decorate their pub:
"Because we were in the country, we used a lot of holly and ivy and sprayed it and decorated it.
"And over time they acquired lots of decorations.
"When they left their pub, they didn't want them, so I inherited them.
"But in the meantime, I'd been acquiring my own decorations in the homes that I'd had since I'd left home.
So the whole lot is just amassed into one very large collection."
Decorations make "the memories flood back"
His oldest decorations date back as far as the 1930s, with Geoff adding he holds around 30 crates of Christmas ornaments up the loft.
But the impressive display is about more than getting into the Christmas spirit - it's also a sentimental reflection of his past:
"I'm not one that likes to throw something away, so it might be old, it might be a bit tacky, it might have got nicotine all over it from being in my parents' pub, but I've still nurtured it and kept it.
"A bit like most things in life for me, there's an attachment to it.
"So I can look at a particular decoration and it can instantly remind me of a time, a moment, a person throughout my life.
"And so certainly I can assure you, the older you get, it's quite nice to have those recollections and those memories.
"In the tree, one of the trees in the front room there, my grandmother who passed away in the mid-70s, she'd bought me little decorations as a child and I've still got them in there.
"For me, it's quite rewarding to unpack them and put them out and the memories start to flood back."
Once Christmas is done, Geoff estimates he'll spend another week taking the decorations back down again.