Snodland residents were in for a fright this Halloween after one family spent 10 months transforming their home.

Andy Damms and Helen Clark started work on props to decorate the front and back gardens of their Saltings Road address in January.

The spooky scene which greeted trick or treaters last night was complete with projected images of ghoulish goings on, 17 papier-mâché pumpkins – which took 12 weeks each to make – and five flying ghosts, which whizzed around above onlookers heads.

Landscape gardener Mr Damms took a week off work in order to assemble the terrifying scenery.

It was all for a good cause, with more than £200 donated to Children in Need by impressed visitors.

Ms Clark, who works at Tesco in West Malling, said: “Everyone said it was really brilliant and want us to do it again next year. Some of the children were a little bit scared at first but it proved really popular.

“Work were really supportive and let me have money off some of the material we needed.”

She added they had lost track of how much the project cost but the figure was in the high hundreds.

The couple, who had the help of sons Scott Damms and David Greenwood and their girlfriends Kathleen Gwilliam and Rebecca Meadows, constructed a similar scene last year and are already looking to go one better next year.