Do you still have bonfire and fireworks,

[zippy]

Do, you still have a bonfire and fireworks, with your family.

As a youngster we all used to go around the doors in our neighborhood and collect old wood, rubbish for a very large bonfire then mum's & Dads supplied the food, it was a full street activity in the 1970's, it got all the neighbors together chatting and making friends. Fireworks were all collected from anyone whom? could afford them and we all watched in awe with a few OOO,W's.... sound from the lady's and mum's as the rockets lite up the sky.

Potatoes, were wrapped in tinfoil and placed in the hot ashes of the fire, when cooked a nob of butter, real butter, was added to the piping hot potato it tasted lush specially on a cold November night, crisps and Pop was on the menu along with party food, sausages on sticks, picked onions and seaside sandwiches, cake. I love it,,, My childhood memories...

It would seem this is not a family thing anymore and most go to an organized firework display not the same I find... Times have changed I guess.
The things we did in the old days were amazing memories so pleased I was born in that era and time...

[Katzenjammer]

It was a full street activity in my time and the house and garden where it happened for our street in Pickering has just been sold. My Auntie Audrey is in a home now. She was not a real Aunt but one of those adopted ones just as my mum and dad where to her children. There were three families of a similar age in the street then and we were all friends - parents included. Happy days This was a massive garden with an old air raid shelter at the top which was our gang hq. I was going to ask Audrey's daughter if I could have a last look round but the house sold within a week of going on the market. So I feel quite sad about that as it was the playground for so many of our games and has many happy memories including a communal bonfire night with hot soup and potatoes and all sorts of goodies made by people up and down the street. A proper community.

Fireworks were smaller then but still dangerous but I have to say I no longer agree with the free sale to members of Britain's new population of thugs, chavs and I don't give a **** about anyone else types that pervade this land now.

A black powder shooter has to go through many hoops to be approved and to have proper storage. These modern fireworks contain enough firepower to cause real and extensive damage. Enough is enough. And yes we did as kids do some daft things with them. Large displays only organised professionally should be the order of the day. These nights of what sounds like a war zone demonstrate that some members of society have far to much money and time on their hands. It goes on for days and days. Join up and fight on Syrian soil if you want bangs and firecrackers - they wouldn't though! Yitten! (frightened)

Starting to rant now so I'd better stop. Others can put the banning of fireworks more calmly than me

Damn you Mick

[zippy]

It was a full street activity in my time and the house and garden where it happened for our street in Pickering has just been sold. My Auntie Audrey is in a home now. She was not a real Aunt but one of those adopted ones just as my mum and dad where to her children. There were three families of a similar age in the street then and we were all friends - parents included. Happy days This was a massive garden with an old air raid shelter at the top which was our gang hq. I was going to ask Audrey's daughter if I could have a last look round but the house sold within a week of going on the market. So I feel quite sad about that as it was the playground for so many of our games and has many happy memories including a communal bonfire night with hot soup and potatoes and all sorts of goodies made by people up and down the street. A proper community.

Fireworks were smaller then but still dangerous but I have to say I no longer agree with the free sale to members of Britain's new population of thugs, chavs and I don't give a **** about anyone else types that pervade this land now.

A black powder shooter has to go through many hoops to be approved and to have proper storage. These modern fireworks contain enough firepower to cause real and extensive damage. Enough is enough. And yes we did as kids do some daft things with them. Large displays only organised professionally should be the order of the day. These nights of what sounds like a war zone demonstrate that some members of society have far to much money and time on their hands. It goes on for days and days. Join up and fight on Syrian soil if you want bangs and firecrackers - they wouldn't though! Yitten! (frightened)

Starting to rant now so I'd better stop. Others can put the banning of fireworks more calmly than me

Damn you Mick

So. nice Steve to go back down memory lane, We had such wonderful times in The 1970's kids were aloud to be Children and play out in the fields and woods. In the summer down the river we camped out in one very large old army Tent along side the river with me! was my trusty old BSA Airsporter, fishing rod and rope to make a Tarzan swing too drop into the river, we had so much fun, we were free... we also new right from wrong.

Kids now! seem to need £500 before the can have any fun, we had very little the countryside was our playground we had each other,,, we played Hide and seek, tin can ally, Hop scotch.....and made bogies not green things from your nose YUCK!, I mean... Go-Carts we used get old wheels for anywhere we could find them old pram ect and make Go-Carts and race them down the rabbit hill,

Do's anyone remember french arrows, an Bamboo cane was fitted with old playing cards too make flights and peace of string to launch the thing, old wood nail in the end so it would stick in the grass....

Alas. times have changed we seem too breed A few idiots. Plastic gangsters, I call them Chav's they spoil it for everyone nowadays.

[eboswan]

It was a full street activity in my time and the house and garden where it happened for our street in Pickering has just been sold. My Auntie Audrey is in a home now. She was not a real Aunt but one of those adopted ones just as my mum and dad where to her children. There were three families of a similar age in the street then and we were all friends - parents included. Happy days This was a massive garden with an old air raid shelter at the top which was our gang hq. I was going to ask Audrey's daughter if I could have a last look round but the house sold within a week of going on the market. So I feel quite sad about that as it was the playground for so many of our games and has many happy memories including a communal bonfire night with hot soup and potatoes and all sorts of goodies made by people up and down the street. A proper community.

Fireworks were smaller then but still dangerous but I have to say I no longer agree with the free sale to members of Britain's new population of thugs, chavs and I don't give a **** about anyone else types that pervade this land now.

A black powder shooter has to go through many hoops to be approved and to have proper storage. These modern fireworks contain enough firepower to cause real and extensive damage. Enough is enough. And yes we did as kids do some daft things with them. Large displays only organised professionally should be the order of the day. These nights of what sounds like a war zone demonstrate that some members of society have far to much money and time on their hands. It goes on for days and days. Join up and fight on Syrian soil if you want bangs and firecrackers - they wouldn't though! Yitten! (frightened)

Starting to rant now so I'd better stop. Others can put the banning of fireworks more calmly than me

Damn you Mick

So. nice Steve to go back down memory lane, We had such wonderful times in The 1970's kids were aloud to be Children and play out in the fields and woods. In the summer down the river we camped out in one very large old army Tent along side the river with me! was my trusty old BSA Airsporter, fishing rod and rope to make a Tarzan swing too drop into the river, we had so much fun, we were free... we also new right from wrong. funny this has come up I was chatting with my brothers the other day and we were all the same as you mick in the summer we would be up first thing bowl of cereal and out the door we wouldn't return home until the late evening and my parents didn't worry we would make dens,fish with home made rods and just walk miles doing nothing really no harm ever came too any of us even crashing our home made go carts was an adventure

Kids now! seem to need £500 before the can have any fun, we had very little the countryside was our playground we had each other,,, we played Hide and seek, tin can ally, Hop scotch.....and made bogies not green things from your nose YUCK!, I mean... Go-Carts we used get old wheels for anywhere we could find them old pram ect and make Go-Carts and race them down the rabbit hill,

Do's anyone remember french arrows, an Bamboo cane was fitted with old playing cards too make flights and peace of string to launch the thing, old wood nail in the end so it would stick in the grass....
yes but we called them dutch arrows mine was made from an old fibre glass fishing rod boy that thing could travel some distance
Alas. times have changed we seem too breed A few idiots. Plastic gangsters, I call them Chav's they spoil it for everyone nowadays.

I see the kids hanging around where I live not an intelligent thought between them and all ways with they`re hands down the front of they`re trousers someone should tell them that they`re balls wont fall out of the bag

[Geordie]

It was very much a community thing when I was younger. We lived in three story flats that had a huge concrete "back yard" between blocks. We had a massive fire with a real high/long centre post with a guy on top. It really was a big community do, and this went on block after block!

We used to start collecting "bonny wood" months in advance which we stored in the empty cupboards of each block of flats. In those days fireworks were a bit of a luxury and the main focus was the fire. It really was something to behold. No fire engines, no kids doing daft things as there was always adults in attendance ad very much in charge.

When we moved out to a house we always had a do with a small fire and more fireworks but it didnt compare to the do's we had at the flats.

Its all organised displays around ours these days, plus the night on night of fireworks being set off randomly