Diamond Jubilee Fireworks

With the Queens Diamond Jubilee taking place during 2012 it looks as if this year could bring extra sales to the UK firework industry. As well as large scale organised displays many groups of people are getting together to organise street parties. A nice feature at the end of these parties will be a firework display.
A growing trend in fireworks over recent years has been the single ignition firework. Whilst obviously all fireworks only have to be lit once, the single ignition firework is a combination of different effects choreographed to provide as it were a complete firework display, hence the term 'a display in a box' is often used to describe them. There are many variations of the single ignition display firework, however the basis is to begin with high aerial bursts to create an initial impact, followed by sequences of varied effects building up to a rapid fired spectacular finale and all achieved by the lighting of just one fuse. Duration's of these fireworks are around one to two minutes, whilst this may on paper not seem very long in real time it is surprising that when you are looking at one part of the sky just how long it is. The number of shots that these fireworks fire also varies considerably, with some only firing around 50 aerial bursts up to other which fire over 500. Quantity however is not everything, the larger the number of shots a firework fires the smaller the burst and effects tend to be. An ideal number of shots is around 100 to 200 spread over one to two minutes, this ensures that each aerial burst if of a reasonable size and that there is always something happening in the sky during the entire duration.
There is now a special licence that has to be obtained to allow suppliers to have fireworks for sale all year round but the general public do not have to obtain any licence to organise their own firework display at times away from Bonfire Night or New Year's Eve. You can let off fireworks any day of the year but not after 11.00pm or before 7.00am with the following exceptions:-
til 1.00am following the first day of Chinese New Year, until midnight on Nov. 5th, until 1.00am on the day following Diwali Day and until 1.00am on the day following Dec. 31st.
Who do I need to tell? - It is common courtesy to inform neighbours, owners of animals, elderly residential homes etc. A note explaining the date and time of the display and an approximate duration is a good idea. A letter to the police, fire service and the coast guards/local airport (if applicable) particularly when the display is not during the main seasons is also beneficial.

fireworks for new year parties

First of our new fireworks delivered today ready for new year's eve displays & parties. Two large single ignition barrages (150 & 185 shot). a smaller 100 shot and the return of an old favourite but much improved 'The End of the World II'.
Plus free delivery for orders over £100 if your order includes any one of the new 'exclusive' items
http://www.jordansfireworks.co.uk/fwsite/single-ignition.html

Fireworks for sale on Sundays

Sunday opening;-
We are now open on Sundays during the main firework season. Opening hours are as follows;-
Sun 2nd Oct 10.30am - 2.30pm
Sun 9th Oct 10.00am - 4.00pm
Sun 16th Oct 10.00am - 4.00pm
Sun 23rd Oct 10.00am - 4.00pm
Sun 30th Oct 10.00am - 4.00pm
Sun 6th Nov 10.00am - 4.00pm

Please note the slightly different hours for Sunday 2nd October.
All other days Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5.30pm & Sat 9.00am - 5.15pm

New Fireworks for Sale

First of our 'special effect' new products for this year have now arrived. Festival is a rapid firing single ignition display. Other new special eefect series fireworks are due in next week

New firework deliveries

This has been a busy week with the first of the major deliveries arriving. Yesterday went particularly well and the forklift was a big help. Often deliveries have to be all handballed so we managed to get yesterdays delivery sorted out very quickly. Cosmic Fireworks have delivered quite a few items now, these items are going to be in short supply as Cosmic will not be taking in any extra stock this side of Bonfire Night, so what stock we have managed to get is it. Hence we thought we would take our order from them as early as they were able to ship it.

We have had pictures come from China of our own range being loaded onto containers. we hope these will arrive shortly but they are being taken in with a long term view so we may not have them for this Bonfire Night. If however they do arrive early we will post them on our web site.

Other UK importers are indicating late deliveries of their fireworks into the UK and certainly two of our suppliers are still waiting for many products to arrive in the UK, they have indicated that these items will not be arriving until October, so a little late but just in time for Bonfire Night.

Fireworks for sale

Many firework manufacturers and importers are reporting late deliveries of their fireworks into the UK this year. many products are currently arriving about a month later than usual and some factories have yet to make their products for the UK market.

We have confirmations on all of the items on our web site and in our brochure and are currently taking in several deliveries each week. Whislt many have gone to print early with their brochures and may therefore have to let customers down we have waited until all our orders have been confirmed so that we feel secure in being able to supply the products in our range.

Fireworks deliveries

The first of our orders from China has now arrived and is safely packed away. This year has seen many problems with supply of fireworks from China. Firstly one of the largest UK importers went into administration which initialy led to some confusion as they had gone into administration only 2 years previously but it does mean that they will not be importing any new products this year just selling off what they already have in stock. Also in China itself there have been problems with manufacture. As I write this there is still a ban in place in China regarding the manufacture of fireworks at the temperature is too hot for this to be safely done. Combined with that one of the ships that transfer containers of fireworks from the area of manufacture to Shanghai to the large container ships coming to the UK capsized. 16 containers destined for the UK market were lost and tragicaly the captain of the vessel has not been found.

We have put our new 2011 main season web site on-line. This is primarliy for the live testing of links as to be honest the only way to make usre everthing works is in the end to put it live. As you will see we have some great offers and are able to offer a free delivery service (subject to a few conditions) for the first time.

We will update the web site with news as it happens.