Issue 62

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It gives you a wallow in fireworks’ past:
Kevin Smith researches the story of Harbot Fireworks of Leicester; Discovery of 1770 manuscript on fireworks – Wilhelm Widenmann describes it; Christopher Brain recalls displays of his youth

It keeps you up to date:
Chris Allen describes Celtic’s collaborative buying consortium – and provides an account of his life in fireworks; M5 Crash not result of firework display

It covers unique events:
Darryl Fleming describes how he got gunpowder into the Palace of Westminster; Jubilee Fireworks celebrates 25 years – Chris Pearce recalls those years; Alan Wells recalls earlier jubilee celebrations in a nostalgically illustrated article; Ron Lancaster describes his Malta experience; Mike Knox provides an entertaining account of the International Symposium on Fireworks

If you use or trade in fireworks, it provides what you need to know:
National Accreditation Authority membership likely – Martin Coffin considers the possibility; Pyrotechnic Articles Directive being re-drafted – Martin Guest shares his frustration; Gary Wedlake provides a cautionary tale on trying to help too much; New HSE Cost Recovery Scheme; Is regulation of fireworks directed at the real problems? Phil Aitken provides advice on wholesale buying of fireworks; Big changes at UKPS – Phil Dunford has the details; Directory of companies; REACH compliance – are you affected?

It amuses and entertains you:
The Sturtz cartoon and amusing articles

It supplies firework news:
How does firework industry’s regulatory problems compare with others – Andy Hubble investigates; George Moyer collection goes under the hammer; News of the Wells Restoration Project at Amberley; Reviews of new firework literature; Tony Cardell and Tracy Vine review Tom Smith’s book

It provides you with colourful firework photographs:
Harbot Fireworks live again in pictures; Brock’s 1913 dummy board; Paul Brock provides a record of the Greenwich Royal Borough celebrations in pictures; Kirsty Ann Hewson has found surprising firework subjects around the parks; Indoor fireworks from the thirties and other periods; Pictures from Malta and New Year’s Eve, London

It provides the unusual:
Indoor fireworks – once unobtainable, now back in fashion: Warren Thomas explains; Barry Sturman recalls the pyrotechnic self-heating food can!

Writing in this issue: Christopher Brain; Gary Wedlake; Chris Allen; Warren Thomas; Tony Cardell; Tracy Vine; Kevin Smith; Mike Knox; Darryl Fleming; Chris Pearce; Phil Aitken; Andy Hubble, Ron Lancaster, Martin Guest, Barry Sturman, Martin Coffin, Alan Wells, Wilhelm Widenmann; John Bennett; Phil Dunford; Photographs by Paul Brocklehurst and Kirsty Ann Hewson; Cartoons by Sturtz

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