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 Post subject: Re: fireworks
PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 2:35 pm 
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jim wrote:
rexy wrote:
I was part of my youth making a guy, borrowing pram, and canvasing for pennies outside the Best Western, beginning in August I joined a firework club in a small shop just down from the Ambassador, every sat after sat morning pics added a few pennies to my fund, but that was an English kids way of life, seems it has been given away.

We would build a bonfire in the middle of the road, on the corner Warley ave and Shakespeare avenue. there was other bonfires on other corners, usually a big one on the corner of Central ave and Uxbridge road before the flats were built even where the Wimpy bar now stands and Nov 5th there were bonfires all over the place, no health and safety then, as kids we would queue for fire works you was only allowed two bobs worth so we would turn up and queue up. but then they were not mortar bombs, squibs were as loud as they came. throw fire crackers at the girls feet and watch them dance, all good fun.


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 Post subject: Re: fireworks
PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:21 pm 
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They were so dangerous weren't they. My dad used to let them off in the road and get us to stand in our garden out of the way.

I remember a firework party at our house where my aunt was sitting with a box of bangers on her lap and they caught fire - really scarey!


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