Organised fireworks are good for emptying the pub 🙂 We used to turn up get a beer at the bar then watch everyone troop out and pick the best seats in the house 🙂

Ours were £6 each and were awsum. Really enjoyed every second. 😀

No wonder the scouts leadsrs are driving Lamborghinis!

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I assume they are run by the scouts? However unless you are actually suggesting they are creaming off money for themselves I don’t see the link to Lamborghinis – other than perhaps these guys have some idea of how to run events that make money?

I obviously have no idea how good or bad your event was but our local one is excellent (run by the local rugby club). Lasts for over 20 minutes of professional scale continuous fireworks. The only better shows I have seen have been choreographed to music. It cost £10 for a family ticket. £4 for an individual.

Have you any idea what it costs to put on an event like that?

– insurance (probably gone up after the motorway accident last year)
– training
– PPE
– first aid cover
– safety barriers etc
– ticket cost
– advertising cost
– people to clear up the litter / debris afterwards
– stewarding etc.

Obviously some of that can be arranged by volunteers etc – but the public are much better at criticising than coming forward to offer to help.

And that is all before you light a single firework.

Now what does £6.50 buy you in fireworks? Sweet F.A.
For the cost of a family of 4 you could maybe get 30 s worth of moderately impressive fireworks from the local Aldi.

our local primary school does one – £5-10 entry, cheap campylobacter burgers etc and the display is bloody fantastic. At least 20-30 minutes of concentrated firepower, set to a theme with a soundtrack and proper industrial bombs in reinforced barrels that you get to set up yourself the morning before if you want to help out.

All that, and the distinct possibility of a tree-fire 😀

Our free display at the local pub was awesome as usual – and a huge bonfire to boot.

And what’s with people complaining about neighbours putting on a good display? Ok, its not November 5th, but ffs, should they have let them off on Monday night, or not at all? It’s guy fawkes night, get a grip!

And yet curiously for a family of four it would also reduce takings (and money for fireworks) by £16 for the organisers. Perhaps that’s why they preferred the £6.50/person option ❓

5 am i set off to work, the barage is still going in west leeds. Yey.

Not pleasant when you have friends staying and 3 two year olds and a dog cowering for cover whilst the house literally shakes

Take the opportunity to suggest to your friends that you will have to go to theirs next year?!

I’d rather have a few OTT displays rather than the idiots roaming the streets letting them off every 5 minutes from 6 to 12pm.

My calendar must be borked. It says the 5th of November is only on Monday.

Lass I used to work with would have to replace a couple of polycarbonate sheets over her carport every year as fireworks had burned holes in them.

£10 for a family a ticket is far better than £6.50/person!

Simples then, next year you will be able to run a better event for less money, make yourself a load of cash and get yourself that Lamborghini you obviously covet. Or I suppose you could do what other people do when they are not impressed with a service / product, and look elsewhere for another provider – perhaps to another town near by…

I think you mean – a lass you used to work with wasn’t bright enough to realise that if polycarbonate melts and gets hit with fireworks every year, either use a different material, cover it (a wet sheet?) or put the old stuff from last year on top as a protective barrier…

Pretty subjective and most of the time can ‘setting off a load of fireworks’ really be called a display?

Boring boring fireworks. Flash bang oooooohh aaaaaahhhhhh. Easily entertained.

£14 for a family ticket last night but it wasn’t a bad show and I know if I had put on my own effort in the garden it would have cost us more and probably been pony TBH…

Harrogate Stray fireworks – free – paid for by donations. Unfortunately one of our girls wasn’t well so ended up spending £17 on pathetic ones to let off at home as she watched from the window.

£10 for a family ticket last night.

Got twice the bang for our bucks as well – the cricket club is in an ampitheatre and has one side full of metal storage containers while they do some building works. The echo back of the containers was FANTASTIC!

+1 for Harrogate Stray Fireworks 😀

Free to watch with a collection for a local charity.

Well worth the walk up the road and putting hand in pocket to donate.

Very Good display again this year

Bugger!!! That’s tonight’s ensemble out the door…

£6 each last night at the local CC, yeah wasn’t Amazing but was pretty good tbf, food was a tad steep at £2.50 for a burger, jkt or hot dog but its a captive market etc..

Wouldn’t come close to anything like it at home if we were to diy for £17 so don’t mind the outlay

Killjoys! £15 of small fireworks at home in our large garden at 7pm. No rockets or aerial stuff, just a few catherine wheels, roman candles, volcanoes etc. Nothing that even made my teething and staying up late 8month old blink. What on earth is wrong with that? There was more noise from the big public display 6miles away on Friday night.

Why at home? Because I want my 3 year old to be able to enjoy them and be in bed at a decent hour still and because I want him to see from an early age dangerous things being handled safely so he doesn’t get his arm blown off at age 10.

Restricting what can be sold domestically a bit wouldn’t hurt as would legislating for latest possible firings but just try enforcing it in practice.