FabSwingers.com forum: Firework memories as a kid

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Do you remember when you set off a rocket out of a bottle. And a rip rap would chase you. Also the Catherine wheel falling off the fence still alight . Health and safety .I beg your pardon

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

Awww those were the days

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Being the guy who, went round all the skips and did some door knocking for broken wood and old stuff to burn, then build up the bonfire on the playing fields.

Ee, them were the days.

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By *oly Fuck Sticks BatmanCouple
over a year ago

here & there

The noise was deafening! I remember going to a display in Milton Keynes and the rockets would almost knock the air out of your lungs, the shock waves were awesome!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There used to be displays everywhere as well as smaller fires.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

The council firework display always ended with two Daleks zapping each other

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

I remember a Catherine wheel coming loose and setting fire to my sister's coat. She was fine. And my mum covered the hole with one of those patches you got free from Abbey National for having a kids account with them.

Boy did I look the bees knees when I wore that same coat 4 years later. Thanks mum

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"Being the guy who, went round all the skips and did some door knocking for broken wood and old stuff to burn, then build up the bonfire on the playing fields.

Ee, them were the days."
did the same .use to cheese you off though if a couple of days before bonfire night a rival gang set your bomy alight

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"I remember a Catherine wheel coming loose and setting fire to my sister's coat. She was fine. And my mum covered the hole with one of those patches you got free from Abbey National for having a kids account with them.

Boy did I look the bees knees when I wore that same coat 4 years later. Thanks mum

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good carefree days xx

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By *lorious hole bs16Man
over a year ago

Bristol

Collecting stuff for the bonfire weeks in advance and watch it grow ....

Potatoes chucked in the bonfire...loved the contrast of cold weather and heat from the bonfire..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Baked potato ! Toffee apples ! Bonfire toffee

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At an organised event just after the display was lit a gust of wind knocked it over sending fireworks into tge crowd starting a mass dash to escape . No one sued . Everyone just thought these things happen . A few got hit but no one was seriously hurt thankfully

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"At an organised event just after the display was lit a gust of wind knocked it over sending fireworks into tge crowd starting a mass dash to escape . No one sued . Everyone just thought these things happen . A few got hit but no one was seriously hurt thankfully "
wow imagine if it happened today would be news at ten

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

I remember being very young and scared of the loud bangs, so watched them from windows instead of outside.

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By *ilfCrumpet9Man
over a year ago

Wirral

Treacle toffee loved it

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"I remember being very young and scared of the loud bangs, so watched them from windows instead of outside.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Throwing bangers At each other. Sterling rockets from our finger tips…oh yeh, I was a muppet when I was in school.

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"Throwing bangers At each other. Sterling rockets from our finger tips…oh yeh, I was a muppet when I was in school.

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Yes that was another one throwing bangers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Throwing bangers At each other. Sterling rockets from our finger tips…oh yeh, I was a muppet when I was in school.

Yes that was another one throwing bangers

Now I sit cursing anyone setting them of, frowning at anyone paying the price for them and would vote to have them banned from sale to the public.

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

The Peckham council fireworks always ended with "That's All Folks" writ large in flames.

Hugely impressive to this 7 year old

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

The village I grew up in always had a bonfire and one of the dads set the fireworks off.

The village mums supplied us with food, baked potatos, soup and mum used to make treacle toffee and toffee apples.

There were always bangers it the bonfire which would scare you silly as you weren't expecting it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you remember when you set off a rocket out of a bottle. And a rip rap would chase you. Also the Catherine wheel falling off the fence still alight . Health and safety .I beg your pardon

Whenever a firework went out before it actually exploded my uncle would go back and try to relight it and the whole family would be like, “NOOO, DON’T DO IT!!”. Haha. The adverts always said don’t go back to relight then. My uncle didn’t give a shit. Ahhh the good old days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you remember when you set off a rocket out of a bottle. And a rip rap would chase you. Also the Catherine wheel falling off the fence still alight . Health and safety .I beg your pardon

Can’t believe no one’s mentioned writing your name in the air, or making patterns with, a sparkler!

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

"Do you remember when you set off a rocket out of a bottle. And a rip rap would chase you. Also the Catherine wheel falling off the fence still alight . Health and safety .I beg your pardon

Can’t believe no one’s mentioned writing your name in the air, or making patterns with, a sparkler! "

still do it now!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Penny for the guy!

Oh and being hit in the face by an exploding rocket in my neighbours garden!!!

Never been near fireworks since, other than the odd organised event for my children.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

Boy did I look the bees knees when I wore that same coat 4 years later. Thanks mum

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

It was the food for me. My mum and I would go to my Nan and gramps as they had a back garden. My gramp would be the showman out the back lighting (or trying to light!) the fireworks, meanwhile my Nan would be in the kitchen sorting out hot dogs and burgers for us and toffee apples.

Meanwhile I’d be sat in the back room watching the fireworks from inside. I was a big wuss and frankly my Grampy had a very lackadaisical approach to health and safety and I didn’t want to die from a rogue firework to the eye.

And I HATED sparklers. Highly inflammable work of the devil “hold it, it won’t hurt you” as heat sparks fly out at you from every direction……oops there almost goes my top layer of skin….

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

I also remember living in a very short block of Victorian terraced houses, about five of them, that backed on to a hilly grassy court yard.

This meant that as a seven year old I had the perfect front row seat, in my upstairs bedroom and I could feel the heat of that fire, that was about 60 feet away.

Bliss and the start of my enjoyment of bommies.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Do you remember when you set off a rocket out of a bottle. And a rip rap would chase you. Also the Catherine wheel falling off the fence still alight . Health and safety .I beg your pardon

Can’t believe no one’s mentioned writing your name in the air, or making patterns with, a sparkler!

still do it now! "

Pop the safe end of the sparkler in a wine cork and nobody gets sore fingers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Raiding gardens for stuff to burn and guarding it for weeks.

Remember fire walking in the embers of the bonfire not a good idea if wearing a shell suit though like a mate found out.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

The pub in the village I grew up in always used to do a big bonfire that the whole village turned out to watch. One year some bright spark had filled the Guys head with rockets and bangers, probably thinking they would all shoot off into the sky as a grand finale. What actually happened was the Guys head fell forward into the fire as the flames caught it and screaming rockets started flying out horizontally at the crowd as they ran for cover, it was absolute mayhem

nobody got hurt luckily but there was some arses nipping!!

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"The pub in the village I grew up in always used to do a big bonfire that the whole village turned out to watch. One year some bright spark had filled the Guys head with rockets and bangers, probably thinking they would all shoot off into the sky as a grand finale. What actually happened was the Guys head fell forward into the fire as the flames caught it and screaming rockets started flying out horizontally at the crowd as they ran for cover, it was absolute mayhem

nobody got hurt luckily but there was some arses nipping!!"

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By *erryandjuneCouple
over a year ago

Livingston

Not to mention the indoor ones. You lit one that turned into something resembling and large turd.

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

The year was 1945

The date was 8th May

I was 5 years old

The occasion was the VE day street celebration - Victory in Europe

The firework was called a jumping jack, on one of its jumps it landed on my legs but then jumped no more, I suffered burns to both legs and finished up at the local cottage hospital.

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