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Get your myspace counterHi, my name is Tony and welcome to my Firework Museum. An evocative look at a century of British fireworks and Bonfire Nights, seen through the artwork of their labels, posters and brochures Fireworks occupy a unique and almost indefinable position within the realm of consumer goods, designed with one implicit purpose, to provide aesthetic and sensory pleasure during the act of destroying them. They are not merely disposable items, in the manner of food wrappers, drink cans and toy boxes, created initially to attract and package before being discarded with little further thought, they are produced instead to provide amusement through their destruction and lasting pleasure in remembering the moment.THE COMPANIES, Although most of the names presented here long since vanished as companies these names now stand witness to a time when thousands found employment making and selling these most seasonal of goods. They capture a period of industrial history when several generations of a single family might work together mixing, sieving, loading, tamping, fusing, labelling and packing fireworks under a brand name their own ancestor could well have created. A time when the manufacturer meant useful contracts for local printing and packaging firms. A time when newspapers, comics, periodicals and television carried the adverts, making for an heirloom brand loyalty of favourite makes, types and names.What follows is by no means a comprehensively detailed or complete list of all the names involved in producing fireworks in Britain during the last century. Many of the firms, both small and large had scant regard for their own company record keeping and archive storage and losses of physical evidence has been rife. Even within the past decade invaluable archive material relating to some of the more famous companies has been lost during factory clearances due to a general lack of understanding as to the cultural importance and relevance to social heritage of this material.It is possibly a measure of the quaint, cottage-industry style approach of many firework makers that has lead to this situation and maybe their very appeal would be lessened had their business acumen and record keeping matched their pyrotechnic knowledge. Very few firework companies were run with the sole intention being that of financial gain, the work being too seasonal, unpredictable and labour intensive to allow for such luxury. Most companies were started and run by enthusiastic firework lovers who happened to make a living, often only just, from their passionate interest. They did not keep complex, detailed records because in their business they did not have to. All they needed to know and to record were their methods, chemical ingredients, mix recipes, where to source the most economic raw materials and where best to sell the finished product; these were the mainstay requirements of firework making and could be easily passed on verbatim to those who would follow, a gradual drip-drip of hand-me-down knowledge and practical experience gained entirely through learning the trade from within.Did this simplistic approach help bring about the near total cessation of the British firework making industry and the reason why all the images within this myspace profile are paper fossils of yesteryear? Probably, it certainly did not help make firework making a tempting industry for budding entrepreneurs to enter into but then again let us not kid ourselves into thinking that fireworks, even in their heyday, could ever compete in the FT100 index alongside the big food producers, media companies, petrochemical and electronics giants. Granted, more people in any given year may use fireworks than might use a new drug which has had millions invested in it but that fact alone is not going to make the investment capital fraternity wave their cheque-books in the direction of grubby wooden sheds full of cardboard tubes and gunpowder. Although millions of people use the product annually, hundreds of millions worldwide, the product, its profits and its manufacture are by necessity restricted in scale. Fireworks are by their very nature small disposable items, necessarily affordable, utilitarian and practical, manufactured out of sight and out of mind and the industry that once produced them here in Britain clearly reflected these factors both in it's scale and in it's way of thinking.
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ASTRA Created in 1946, Astra Fireworks were one amongst a number of new companies, created following the war to supply the burgeoning new demand by the public for fireworks. Founded by two émigrés from Eastern Europe, Bertie Yellin and Dr Paul Lax, Astra Fireworks began primarily with the production of sparklers, under the Cleveland brand name, manufactured at their then base of Bromley in Kent. They began to make fireworks proper in 1948 and would do so from a new factory at Richborough, near the town of Sandwich in Kent, until 1989 when following a serous fire they ceased all home based manufacture and switched instead to supplying imported items. They did so until their final demise in 1997.BENWELL Started in 1949 by Benjamin Weller, who was then part of Haley and Weller toy makers, a company with a major line in the manufacture of dartboards. Benwell's full retail range was produced in Draycott until 1974 when they moved to the old Wizard Fireworks site at Chedburgh. There they remained until 1988 when they pulled out of firework production all together, the name being taken over and kept alive for a while by firework importers Fiestal.BRITANNIA / PHOENIX This company began life possibly (it is not entirely certain) under the name of Gray's Fireworks, started by Kenneth Gray in 1938 who sold on the firm in 1948 to Alfred Goldstone and Philip Rose who began to manufacture under the name Phoenix Fireworks, using a site very close to the famous Brock's factory in Hemel Hempstead. Philip Rose lasted only a year before departing to start Wizard Fireworks in 1949. Mystery surrounds the existence of Phoenix and it appears that due to the use of a few dodgy mixtures they suffered some nasty accidents and a spate of exploding Snowstorm fireworks, which, given the bad publicity associated with these incidents, led the company to begin selling their fireworks under the Britannia Fireworks brand name from 1950. They never really shook off the problems and saw just four more years before selling out to another local firm, Continental Industry, a sparkler manufacturer, who wanted the factory site for their own purposes.BROCK'S By far the oldest and most respected of the firework firms and one whose very name is synonymous with the national and international face of the British firework industry. Brock's began life in the early 1700's as the creation of John Brock, with its first factory located in the most unlikely of modern locations for such a practice, namely Islington, London. After passing through the control of several generations of the Brock family the company became world famous for presenting what would become forever known as 'Brock's Benefits,' displays for the enjoyment of the common public, the first of which was fired on July 10, 1826 and from 1865 onwards became a regular attraction at the site of the fabulous Crystal Palace. These Brock's displays continued regularly with a just a decade long break between 1910 and 1920 until the Palace was completely devastated by fire in 1936, an event which spelt the closure of this traditional and hugely popular firework institution. So connected with the palace was the company that they were renamed C.T. Brock & Co's 'Crystal Palace' Fireworks in 1865, a nomenclature reference that would live on long after Paxton's famous glass and iron structure had cooled to the touch.During their long existence the Brock's production site moved a number of times, from South Norwood to Sutton and then in 1910 to Hemel Hempstead where it remained until the 1971 when the business undertook its final relocation to two factories, one in Sanquar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland and the other at Swaffham in Norfolk, remaining there until 1981.The Brock's name was re-enlivened in the early 80's with the advent of a new product range and moreover a brand new image. The introduction of designs for labels, boxes and point of sale, created by Michael Peters and Co. Design Agency, brought a new lease of life and for a while at least Brock's shone brightly. It was not to last. In 1988 Brock's were bought out by Standard Fireworks who switched the remaining manufacture from Scotland to Huddersfield before ceasing home production all together in favour of imported goods. Standard did however maintain this fine old name as a distinct product line until into the new century thereby enabling Brock's to see four different centuries.CRANE'S Based at Kingswood, Bristo, they were started by I.Crane in 1887 and closed in 1938, after failing to recover from a fire in the October of 1937 which although not directly destroying that season's stock did immeasurable and ultimately terminal damage to the buildings.EXCELSIOR This firm actually started life sometime prior to 1909 as Oswald Bradley and Co. Ltd, in Ripon, Yorkshire, before relocating firstly in 1911 to Freshfield on the Lancashire cost south of Southport, before moving for the final time to the outskirts of that Victorian seaside resort in 1913 and becoming known thereafter as Excelsior Fireworks. It was a name for which they would become rightly famous. From its Russell Road factory the business produced a wide and very respected range of retail fireworks right up to its much lamented closure in 1971 when its then owner, Fredrick Bradley, Oswald's son, retired, with no-one else seemingly willing to guide the dwindling company through the quagmire of anti-fireworks feeling which grew around that time.GUY'S Started out under the title Comet Fireworks in 1946 as the result of the efforts of a school chemistry teacher named Hugh Allen. After a couple of years the name was changed to Guy's and they carried on trading from their Leeds based factory until their cessation in 1957. There was an ill-fated attempt during the 1980's to bring this brand name back from the dead. It failed.HAMMOND'S This Edinburgh based firm was one of those who's ownership remained within the same family for all of its existence, having been set up by Thomas Hammond sometime prior to 1880 and brought to a close nearly a century later on the retirement of his daughter in 1974.JESSOP One family, one hill, four businesses. There was a time when Rowley Hill, near Huddersfield in Yorkshire, was a not the best place in the country to strike a match, mostly due to the industrious zeal shown by a single pyrotechnically minded Yorkshire family. The spark for all this activity was struck by the father of the clan, Mr. Allen Jessop, in 1875 when he started up a fireworks factory there and brought in his sons, Ben, Humphrey, Eli and Elliot to assist.After Allen's death in 1880 there seems to have been a slow-burning clash of sibling personalities that resulted in a split during the 1890's and a resultant complex of separate firework businesses thereafter, all fully independent and yet all seemingly within a good quality rocket shot of each other.Leaving Elliot to run the original firm of Allen Jessop & Sons, Humphrey and Eli worked together to run their own company of Jessop Brothers, whilst the fourth son, Ben, joined forces with a budding firework maker named Harry Kilner to start Jessop & Kilner Fireworks. They remained in business until early in the new century when Harry departed just a short distance across the hill to start his own Yorkshire Firework Company, a firm which would in 1936 change its rather long-winded name to a far shorter one and would so thus become one of our most famous and well loved firework brands, Lion.Eventually Jessop Brothers were purchased by another long established Yorkshire based firework concern, H. Shaw & Son, who had been making fireworks since 1876, whilst in 1914 Ben Jessop sold what was left of his half of Jessop & Co. to another locally based and rapidly growing firm called Standard Fireworks, a firm destined for much greater things.Although many of the details are uncertain with this close family of companies, one thing is certain and that is that by 1917 not one of them was left trading. The Jessop name may have faded from the firework scene but their legacy would continue for many a year.KIMBOLTON This company is the last British based manufacturer to have been successfully formed and are now the only remaining manufacturer of any type of British made fireworks. Their main manufacturing effort is directed into the production of high quality display items, candles, mines and shells. Started in 1966 by the U.K's pre-eminent firework authority, Reverend Ronald Lancaster, as well as supplying retail goods they have supplied, staged and fired some of the most illustrious major public displays of recent times.LION The Lion brand of fireworks, complete with its eye-catching logo of a Lion leaping through the O of the name was owned through its entire seventy-five year history with that of the Kilner family, having started out early in the century under the leadership of Harry Kilner following his separation from partnership with Ben Jessop. Trading initially as The Yorkshire Firework Company, the name changed to Lion in 1936 and the business grew to produce a typically wide range of very good quality shop goods, from sparklers to rockets and shells.After the war and with the returning availability of materials, the company thrived, selling nationally a variety of retail items and selection boxes. With the changes brought upon the industry following legislation and safety issues in the late 1960's plus the economic downturn encountered at the start of the 70's, the company began to struggle. They finally ceased trading in 1973 amidst a spate of similar fates within the industry.PAIN'S Here is one of the great names. A name that encapsulates the spirit of Guy Fawkes Night in so many ways. Pains have enjoyed a long and complex journey through firework history and popular belief even has it that an early ancestor of the founder James Pain, supplied the gunpowder to Guido Fawkes and his co-plotters. What is known is that James founded the company during the late 1860's and based the early production at a site on Walworth Road, in southeast London. After a brief interlude of production in Brixton the firm moved to its more famous and longer lasting base at Mitcham, Surrey, in 1877. From there, the company, called James Pain & Sons went onto to establish itself as one of the major players in both retail goods manufacture an in the staging of professional displays.In the early 1960's Pain's were sold to Bryant and May, the match people, and merged with another established firework company, Wessex Fireworks, who had also recently been acquired by Bryant and May. Pain's-Wessex carried on manufacturing at Mitcham until 1965 when the site was required for housing development and closed.Firework manufacture was uprooted and moved to the Wessex factory site near Salisbury but in 1973 it moved again, after British Match, the then name of old Bryant and May, was sold to Wilkinson Sword, who with their ownership of Schermully, the distress rocket manufacturers, were the current owners of the old Well's Fireworks site at Dartford. From there fireworks would continue to be made under the Pains-Wessex label, wrapped in some of the most imaginative firework designs ever produced, until their regrettable withdrawal from shop-goods supply in 1976.Much of the inventiveness of those designs owed its existence to the creative energies of a Glasgow based printing firm called J.J Murdoch a company which had taken on the design work for Pains in 1963.Having been bounced for too long around one too many a boardroom, Pain's Fireworks, as a separate company, returned to the fore following the purchase of the name by John Deeker, in 1980. Pain's Fireworks have since then gone from strength to strength under the Deeker family, supplying both an extensive range of self-fire display packs as well as being regarded as one of the major professional display teams in the world.RAINBOW Another of the post war business start-ups, this firm began in 1948, at Bracknell, the creation of a Herbert Nobbs. The imagination of this factory and that of its label designers is plain to see in the wonderful artwork they produced during their 25-year existence. From 1969 the firm co-traded a range of goods with Astra Fireworks before closing down just before Bonfire Night in 1972. The remaining stock and raw materials were taken over by Astra who continued the Rainbow name under franchise for a few more years before ending the run in 1975.RILEY'S Began in 1844, by Michael Riley and based at Ossett, by the early 1920's Riley's were regarded as one of the largest firework making firms in Britain, with a product range to match their size. What happened to them, when and more to the point, why, is not entirely certain. Considering that during their prominence this company occupied the industry heights with such illustrious names as Brock's, Pain's and Well's their fall from the pyrotechnic pedestal was indeed remarkable.STANDARD Standard Fireworks must be considered the most recognisable and most popular of all British firework makers, occupying the number one slot in both sales figures and company size throughout the bulk of the twentieth century and in their time giving firework-lovers some of the most memorable firework names and labels.Output from their Huddersfield factory was genuinely vast, covering every single type of consumer and professional display firework from sparklers, bangers, serpents and ripraps right up to the largest shells and giant rockets used for public displays. In their prime Standard produced fireworks and designs that are still recognizable and identifiable even if the textual element of the design is removed, such was the effectiveness of their artwork. Traffic Lights are instantly identifiable purely by the stark black and white design and the three central spots of colour. Harlequin also, its swirling geometric pattern of blue and red immediately recalled.Standard Fireworks came into being in 1892 as a wholesale business selling fireworks produced by other local Yorkshire makers. Started by James Greenhalgh, the firm entered into it's own firework production in 1910 and by purchasing some of their local rivals around the time of the First World War they not only snuffed out the local competition but also acquired new factory space, machinery and labour. These assets were put to immediate good use and soon the company grew to reach national prominence, a position where they would prove to remain.Standard acquired Brock's during 1988 and amalgamated all remaining firework production in Huddersfield for the remaining years before the full impact of imported goods was felt. By the early 1990's firework making was over forever at Standard's Crosland site, their home of over 70 years. In 2001 the company was bought out by Black Cat Fireworks and thankfully they have maintained the Standard name as a distinct brand, thereby keeping the lineage alive.TASKER'S Yet another of the many-fold Yorkshire firework makers, this one being based in Bradford during the 1930's, the only decade they appeared to have existed within.WELLS’ Quality. The one word many would use to describe both this company and their product. In manufacture, design, imagination and presentation this company produced arguably some of the finest fireworks and artwork ever to emerge from the firework industry.Good quality paper, printed with clever and delightful artwork would encase the best quality tubes available, which in turn were meticulously filled and finished at their famous Dartford factory. Some might say they were fortunate to survive as long as they did.Established by Joseph Wells in 1837 and controlled by his descendants for the remainder of its 134 year history, Wells’ Fireworks' problem ultimately lay in the fact that towards the later years the product was often costing considerably more to manufacture than they could ever hope to recoup in sales. It was not the best approach to running a business and in the end this company was out of time and out of place. The late sixties and early seventies were an unforgiving time for hard-nosed multinationals let alone quiet little family run fireworks company with one lovingly polished shoe set in a previous century and the other mistakenly set in a time of thinking that one should give your customer the absolute best and to hell with the cost.The firework world at large and November the Fifth in particular lost Wells’ Fireworks in 1971 and although their premises stayed active in the production of pyrotechnics for other companies for more than another decade, it really was as if a shinning light had blinked out within the industry. Nothing would ever quite be the same again - if Wells’ could go, anyone could.WESSEX The well-known Wessex Fireworks brand represented the market name of civil pyrotechnics manufactured by the Wessex Aircraft Engineering Company, or WAECO, which had began life in 1933 as engineering company specializing in the servicing of light aircraft. Their pyrotechnics division had come about during the war and following on from the expertise gained during those years a thriving retail goods range was developed, all produced at their factory at High Post, near Salisbury. In 1961 the company was taken over by Bryant and May and was soon merged, within the realms of that company, with another of their acquisitions, Pain's, to form the Pain's-Wessex range that would become so popular for the next decade.WILDER Founded during the 1830's Wilder is mostly remembered due to the fact that they were acquired by Brock's Fireworks in 1961 and their name kept alive as a distinct brand of retail goods, complete with some wonderful designs for another four years before being phased out all together.WIZARD Wizard burst, like one of their famous penny bangers, upon the fireworks scene in 1949 following Philip Rose's sudden departure from Phoenix Fireworks. This is one of the few examples of when a firework's company, intent on making money, actually managed to do so. Having identified a particular niche within the British market for cheap bangers, Wizard stepped in and from their factory at Chedburgh, in Suffolk, filled it thoroughly. Although they would ultimately create a complete range of retail fireworks it is for their mass-produced, unpredictable and popularly cheap bangers that they will forever be remembered.Through an unfortunate combination of bad debts, bank pressure and the beginning of the anti-firework lobby, Wizard Fireworks disappeared as quickly as they had appeared, closing for business in early 1963. It may be that the management panicked and grabbed at the first opportunity to bale out without incurring any losses. This was a pity, for with a little more confidence this company could have been one of the long-term survivors.Many more companies existed than these, their records lost now, some recalled only by the odd business record or a few scraps of paper in a collection. For some of the companies all that now remains to show the effort, skill and energy of the workers are their labels, their posters and a few price lists and brochures. This is the reason why these bits of paper and card are so important to preserve, record and study. Although many fields of industry have grown and declined over the years, few have virtually vanished without a trace. The British firework industry has the dubious honour of nearly doing so and were it not for the dedication of the collectors and enthusiasts and their fascinating collections there would be precious little to show today for the centuries of industrial effort and creativity given over to the pursuit of pyrotechnic pleasure. Firework museum concentrates solely on the British produced fireworks of the 20th Century, a time of great strides and innovation within the industry and within its art, both pyrotechnic and graphic. The century began with firework manufacture standing in the flickering shadow of the grand firework masters and great public displays of the 18th and 19th centuries. These large-scale and highly organised displays were gradually replaced in common popularity by the more familiar, smaller-scale private celebrations. These intimate events, set against the backdrop of the suburbs in back gardens and on common land, were supplied with affordable fireworks produced by an increasing number of small and often local family-run firms.To accompany and fuel this shift in involvement, there arrived on the retail scene a myriad of firework filled shop displays and poster bedecked windows through which the promise of fun projected onto the autumnal streets outside. Advertisements, printed in popular magazines and comics, fed a strong brandidentity, individuality and year-by-year usage. Although organised public displays would continue to prove popular, it was this displacement of participation towards shop bought fireworks, taken home to be lit amongst the suburban environment, which helped turn the night into something truly different and special.Bonfire Night became a people's night. Rockets rushed into the darkness from gardens and yards, roman candle stars appeared momentarily behind rooftops, fountains flickered behind hedges and pinwheels whizzed on fences whilst the air thundered to the electric flash and boom of air bombs, or the crackling burst of noise from a Jumping Jack.Instead of merely being an observer in the event, a person became part of it, adding their own bit of noise to the whole cacophony with a lit banger, or through the wail of a screaming rocket. Others watched your flying saucer spin dizzyingly into the darkness as you earlier had watched theirs. Your bonfire sparks swirled into the same sky as countless others, its smoke added to the cool mist which usually began to appear in the air as the evening drew to a close.The century saw the Guy Fawkes celebration become an increasing part of the yearly social cycle, for children particularly so. The late summer would find them saving their hard-earned pennies, possibly joining one of the firework clubs, organised by a local shop. Besides the fireworks there was the small matter of making a Guy or lending a hand to collect scraps of wood for the local bonfire. With such a close personal involvement and a vivid memory of previous years, interest in the impending event began early. From the start of October, up and down the land, keen eyes would be on the lookout for the appearance of the first firework poster or the tell-tale clearing out of space beneath a counter ready for the fireworks.Following two unavoidable cessations of Guy Fawkes Night celebrations during the war years, the public hungrily returned to using fireworks with an absence-whetted appetite. Without doubt, the largest growth in firework usage occurred post-1946, when firework production for retail sale returned after six long years away. After a devastating war in which civilians were bombed on a regular basis, with Flying Bombs and V2 Rockets falling from the sky, it is rather interesting to consider how people chose to celebrate and have fun with noisy, exploding fireworks. And yet they did, in their millions, in every village, town and recently bombed city.In the late 1940's a burst of new firework companies appeared to meet this high demand. At the same time the number of retail outlets increased and successful advertising pulled in ever greater numbers of eager customers. Between 1946 and the early 1960's Britain saw the heyday of Bonfire Night celebrations, retail firework sales and more importantly home-grown firework production. This was also the period during which the associated artwork of fireworks found its full and unrestricted palette, its wild imagination and eccentric brilliance.The popularity and growth in use of retail fireworks throughout the course of the century owed much to the development and spread of those social way-posts otherwise known as the newsagent, corner shop and local toyshop. These small-scale, independent and therefore adaptable outlets enabled the firework companies to sell their products initially within the local environs and then latterly, with motor vehicles increasingly allowing mobile selling to be thrown into the equation, regionally and nationally. More outlets meant more sales, which in turn meant more product types and subsequently more designs.Timing was everything. For the retailers, there were but a few precious weeks in which to sell their costly firework stock. For the manufacturers, forced by the demand levied upon them by the shops for better 'point-of-sale' presence they often looked no further than their own company for artwork and design inspiration. With the intention being to dress a new product, rejuvenate an old one or sometimes make an old item look like an entirely new one, an open door policy allowed the ordinary worker to dream up new designs and then see their creation manufactured.This unrestricted and some might say pure source of ideas, free from the stifling hug of market research and serious design gurus, meant that a measure of common touch creativity and originality came forth from the manufacturers. The resultant posters, display boards, oversize replicas and sales cabinets filled to the brim with fireworks sporting fresh colourful labels, shone a charming and sometimes naive light within the busy interiors of the small corner shops. Fireworks added seasonal spice to the shelves and helped fill the retail gap between the outdoor goods ofsummer and the gifts of Christmas.British fireworks became unique, their artwork began to far exceed the basic requirements of packaging and mandatory clear instructions. Even the smallest and least significant fountain, only ever supplied as part of a selection box, never singularly and therefore without the need to be made individually attractive, could and did benefit from a full colour makeover and redesign.The wealth of new designs and colours erupted within the shops, particularly newsagents, which rapidly grew to become the main local outlet for firework sales across the country. Through their busy windows and beneath the finger-smudged glass of their counters, customers were afforded an accessible and tantalising portal into the otherwise closed-off and distant world of the firework maker.All things must inevitably change and over time the newsagent would have its day. The gradual decline of these once useful retail outlets and by proxy social hubs in the face of the daunting, trampling rise of the supermarket is clear to see on every high street. Compared with the past, very few newsagents today sell fireworks and although just as many fireworks are being sold at present as have been over the past thirty years, a greater proportion of them are now being sold through supermarkets, garden centres and DIY stores and increasingly through mail order and the internet. It will be a sad day indeed when there are no more newsagent windows decorated in late October with firework posters, however that day can surely not be too far away.The final chapter in the development of fireworks, particularly evident during the latter decades of the 20th Century, has seen the complete take-over of the retail firework market by foreign manufacturers. The quality of this modern import is on the whole excellent and many are unbelievably spectacular for their price, but even when at their crackling multi-shot best they lack a certain style and spirit the older, touch-paper lit fireworks possessed by the box full.Of the famous old firework makes, only Standard remains today within the retail market, and they have not manufactured here for over a decade. Brock's survive in name at least and Pain's are still with us, supplying and firing professional displays. All the other once popular makes have ceased altogether, taking with them their extraordinary hand-made product.These bygone names now stand as mute witness to a time when thousands found employment making and selling these labour intensive and seasonal products. They capture a period of industrial and social history when several generations of a single family might work together under a brand name their own predecessor created. A time when the manufacturer meant useful contracts for local printing firms, for chemical suppliers, paper and glue-makers. A time when newspapers, comics, periodicals and television stations carried the adverts, making for an heirloom brand-loyalty of favourites-the makes, types, titles and designs we welcomed back as old friends to the shops each autumn.if you can think of it, next time you have a pyro-fest, please keep a few of the empty boxes (flat pack them), labels, wrappers, and any dead, fired, inert or even slightly toasted items, novelties, toys, flyers and rockets minus stick....just two or three....put in a packet, mark as toys and empty tubes for customs, and mail SURFACE mail, with a note inside saying that contents are dead or empty - to - Firework museum,6 sydney walk,flint,flintshire,ch65la,north wales.
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