WANTED – OLD BRITISH FIREWORKS.
Please note that we DO NOT sell fireworks and this page is purely a call out to save old British fireworks. As well as collecting, researching and cataloguing vintage British Shotgun Cartridges, Tony also has a passion for vintage pyro.
Britain all but lost its long and illustrious heritage of making and selling Garden Fireworks in the 1990s – if you have any pre 1990s items with blue touch paper, I’m very keen to have them. The heritage, artwork and history should to be saved and preserved.
What I’m looking for: Please see the pictures on this page. I’m keen to obtain single items, full or part boxes, dummies, fired tubes in good condition, empty boxes, posters and any other pre 1990 British firework ephemera. So don’t bin them or let them off, give us a call on 01501 741 714; or email via our Contact Us Page – I’m willing to collect throughout Scotland and Northern England in most cases, further afield? I can probably make some arrangement.
It’s amazing where old fireworks turn up – That forgotten box in the loft, house clearances, old shop stock in the back of a store room, a job lot of collector items you bought because there was something you wanted in there.
Makers / Brands to look out for: –
Standard; Pain’s; Brock’s; Wells; Lion;
Astra; Benwell; Hammonds; Victory; Britannia;
Excelsior; Wessex; WAECO; Rainbow; Wallop;
Crane’s; Wizard; Wilders; Phoenix; Harbot’s;
Mersey