The ‘Spooky House’ of Wellington has been on display again this week with Halloween creeping up on Monday.

Each year, Judy Burke, of Mantle Street, decorates the front of her house close to the Wellesley Cinema with ghouls and ghosts and other creepy figures.

She said: “There are witches on the front of the house, skeletons in the cellar, and clowns under the archway.

“Each year it has just grown and grown and grown.”

Passers-by are invited to throw money into the cellar for charity, and in doing so they discover they ‘activate’ some subterranean ‘goings on’.

Mrs Burke donates all the proceeds to Wellington Museum and last year presented it with more than £100, which was a record amount.

“The museum is a lovely little place and for a small town like Wellington to have a museum is great,” she said. “They have bills to pay like everybody else and I like to help them out.”

Mrs Burke has been putting on her halloween displays for about eight years and her home has become known as the ‘Spooky House’.

She said: “It started because we live with our three grandchildren and one had a birthday and wanted a halloween party.”

Now, grandsons Joshua, Reece, and James help Mrs Burke each year with the decorations, a process which takes them about three days’ work to complete.