Issue 35

Back Issues

Main items are:

• When I Fired for Takeo Shimizu: David Clough proudly remembers
• On the Dartford Marshes: the Joseph Wells firework factory remains. For how long? Robert Dunn and Peter Glaves investigate
• Where Money and Effort are not Spared to Nail the Firework Man – Even if he has Committed no Crime: Jack Drewes reports on Weedsport
• Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Mills: Astounding pictures and report from Rainer Davis
• San Remo World Firework Championships: Laurence Cooper was there
• Antipodean Jottings: Barry Sturman looks at Chinese fireworks in Australia
• Obituaries: Bill Pestell remembered by Ian Craig
• Regulation and Sub-legislation: Tom Smith reports
• Letter from America: Our US correspondent has news of recent events across the water
• Internet Round-up: from Paul Tierney
• Major Books Reviewed: Lancaster New Edition & Shimizu: Chris Pearce provides the reviews
• News from the Trade Bodies: British Pyrotechnists’ Association and the Explosives Industry Group: and Ron Rapley provides a few words
• Fourth of July Report: Chris Squyres reports of an evening of firework fun from a town where fireworks are banned
• The End of a Family Tradition?: Have the authorities finally defeated George Amabilino?
• Fire Fest 1998: Paul Birch was at PGI
• British Champions Honourable Performance at San Sebastian: Adrian Goldsmith felt the heat
• British Firework Championships: Natasha Webb and Bill Deeker provide their distinctively different articles

and…

• Double helping of colour pages – more nostalgia: Pictures: Brock’s bangers from original penny banger days
• Britannia Fireworks
• Old periodicals
• Waltham Abbey buildings
• Wells’ plans and pictures
• KC Fireworks
• British Firework Championships in full colour
• Snowstorm-Volcano – Widenmann print
• Lewes Bonfire
• Book reviews – three new books, and more in books and publications (two new videos; two new periodicals and two new CD-ROMs too)
• Notice board of events
• Letters: from Consumer Minister, Firework Co., Councillor in favour of fireworks – and another American with a Guy Fawkes celebration

with…

• Did the Government mean the Fireworks Bill to fail?
• Letter from new Fireworks Minister
• Midland Bank offers firework safety advice
• Banning makes problems worse
• ITSA propose new licensing system for firework sales
• Where firework retailers plea for fireworks to be banned
• New regulations and complications
• Emergency Exit display advice
• BTEC courses go ahead
• Millennium Bug – will it prevent your display?
• Benson & Hedges to end
• Ignite fire Valley show
• Sandling break-in
• Major new firework competition – and festival
• Sinister goings on in Texas at Guy Fawkes