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Olney Fireworks Breaking News
Bonfire Night
This year’s fireworks event is on Sunday 2nd November and has now added a live one man fire show including fire eating, music and comedy and ending with a spectacular finale. The show starts at 5:45. Don’t miss it!! The event will be held at the Recreation Ground, off East Street, Olney.
It’s a family display, with the gates open at 5pm and the fireworks starting at 6.30pm. On site we'll have burgers, a licensed bar, hot chocolate, stone baked pizza, real coffee and, for the children, face painting and a small fair. There’s something for everyone to enjoy.
• Single: £5 on the gate or £4 if bought in advance
• Family: £11 on the gate or £9 if bought in advance (2 adults and 4 children)
Advance tickets are available from the following outlets: Olney Library, Stephen Oakley Estate Agents, C.T. Wilson, McColls Newsagents and the Phone Box Magazine.This event is presented by The Olney Group (TOG) with the support of Olney's local sports clubs, and is kindly sponsored by Stephen Oakley Estate Agents.We look forward to seeing you there on the night!
Remember Remember
Mischa Allen
Sparkling, spinning, twisting, exploding and diving across the sky, we all remember the 5th of November for that one night of the year when skies across Britain will be decorated in a rainbow of the exploding rockets. Whether they burst out in a pop of colour or spin and twist through the sky
like a rocket, fireworks are a favourite for kids, big and small. Here we’ve rounded up the area’s displays for you to choose from.
(Have we missed any? Just let us know and we can post the details on Twitter and Facebook)
Fireworks Frenzy, Saturday November 1st
Santa Pod Raceway, from 4 – 6pm (includes stunt displays, fun fair and a bonfire).
Tickets: £20 per car.
Turvey Village Fireworks Display, Saturday November 1st
Food and refreshments available, there’s a free car park on Carlton Road.
Tickets: £3.50 for adults and £1.50 for children.
Fireworks Spectacular, Saturday November 1st
Wicksteed Park, including live music and a funfair. Tickets: £5 on the day. Milton Keynes Village Fireworks, Saturday November 1st
Willen Road will be closed from 5 – 8pm.
Olney Town Fireworks, Sunday November 2nd
Recreation Ground, gates open at 5pm and the display starts at 6.30pm.
Milton Keynes Annual Fireworks, Sunday November 2nd
Campbell Park, the free display starts at approximately 7pm. (The funfair runs from October 30th until November 9th)
Wolverton Fireworks, Wednesday November 5th
This free display just askes for donations to local charity Supershoes (starts at 6.30pm).
Ampthill Fireworks, Friday November 7th
With a bonfire lit by the Mayor, there will live music and food available (the site is off Woburn Road). Tickets: £15 for families (4), or £6 for adults and £3 for children.
Sarah Wall
Bonfire night has been around for a while now, 409 years to be precise, so we’re all probably a bit fed up of being told what it is and why we celebrate it every year. Despite
this, it is a festival much loved by many for its bonfires, fireworks, sparklers, processions and ‘guys’, and so has to have a mention. We thought we’d take a different spin on things this year and have had a look at five of the quirkier and random facts about bonfire night and fireworks that maybe you didn’t already know...
1. History:
We often think of the failed plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 as being the closest they would have got to fireworks back then, but the first recorded fireworks in England were as early as 1486, at the wedding of King Henry VII, and even earlier in China, dating back to around the 7th century. Fireworks were originally only orange and white for many years, until in the Middle Ages people began to experiment by adding salts to create new colours. Apparently, Queen Elizabeth I was so fascinated by fireworks that she created the position of ‘Fire Master of England’, to be granted to whoever could create the best fireworks, making it quite the competition.
2. Chocolate fireworks:
We can’t quite believe it, but there is such a thing as a chocolate firework. The largest chocolate firework was 3 metres high and 1.5 metres wide, and contained 60kg of Swiss Cailler chocolates, a slightly different approach to the usual firework displays. It was made by Nestlé and was released in Switzerland on New Years Eve 2002, it was lit and exploded to release the chocolates.
3. Hot hot hot:
It turns out those warnings about wearing gloves while using sparklers are very relevant, as they’re not just hot, they’re very hot. Sparklers burn at a temperature over 15 times hotter than the boiling point of water, and if you had three sparklers burning together they’d generate the same heat as a blowtorch. So don’t forget your gloves and bucket of water for once it’s gone out.
4. Firecrackers:
The Chinese used to use firecrackers to scare off mountain men (who were, apparently, abnormally large) and were also believed to warn off evil spirits. Incidentally, people making firecrackers can only wear cotton clothing, as the static electricity caused by synthetic fibres can actually set off the fireworks.
5. Biggest and best:
The biggest firework display to date was achieved by the Dubai government at Palm Jumeirah Island and The World Islands of Dubai, and consisted of 479,651 fireworks and stretched across 59 miles of seafront. The largest consumer of fireworks is the Walt Disney Company, with their numerous and extensive displays, it is estimated that they spend well over a million dollars on them every year.
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