Issue 84

Issue 84

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Why you can’t afford to be without the latest issue of Fireworks:

It covers the important firework issues:

If you fire displays to music, Pyro Groove will interest you; Firework storage shortfall now that Heyford Park and many other facilities have closed; Alan Christie provides the brief for Skyburst’s Plymouth winning display

It covers the firework world:

New firework competition in… Turtle Creek; International Symposium on Fireworks in Malta; Mark Kelsall covers the Danang, Vietnam festival where lack of wind was the problem

If you use or trade in fireworks, it provides what you need to know:

Legal issues of low breaking shells over water; We aren’t the only ones who live in glass houses; Is HSE doing the job for which it is making increasing charges? New BPA Chair; Real fireworks with no pyrotechnic composition – Barry Sturman explains

It gives you a wallow in fireworks’ past:

Standard’s Crosland Hill is no more – Chris Pearce provides its history; Michael Ackroyd provides a sad description of its last day; Emma Knutzen researches the history of Standard; Ron Lancaster returns to his early days; Richard Ryan recalls his firework past – and it took some amazing turns before he took up displays and Blackpool Tower start-ups; Jon Culverhouse discovers his neighbour is the great niece of James Greenhalgh; Peter Fitch remembers the firework nights of his youth

It amuses and entertains you:

Elaine Moore returns with her insightful column; Geoff Smith’s Pyrotechno File looks at gunpowder barrels; What happened when storage of rockets, shells and gunpowder was ignored; Thrill to the sound of silence with Joe Neal; Ally Sloper was making fireworks in 1890 – without much success

We remember the sadly missed:

Sidney Alford; The late Robert Burch is memorialised at Montreal – an intriguing story for it is no ashes scattering exercise

It gives you great firework illustrations: Standard posters, fireworks; The Crosland Hill site; Old Standard dummy boards and dummies; Standard fireworks of the past; James Greenhalgh and family; The shop where it all started for Standard; Fireworks being made at Crosland Hill;

Contributing to this issue: John Bennett; John Lockwood; Andy Hubble; Geoff Smith; Chris Pearce; Barry Sturman; Mark Kelsall; Ron Lancaster; Joe Neal; Bill Davis; Michael Ackroyd; Elaine Moore; Alan Christie; Emma Knutzen; Roland Alford; Richard Ryan; Jon Culverhouse; Paul Marriott; Peter Fitch

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Issue 84 is sponsored by Fully Fused Fireworks