The Life of a Pyrotechnician Archives - 1st Galaxy Fireworks
What can a professional fireworks crew do for you?
There’s a world of difference between setting off some fireworks in your garden and hosting a professional managed display. For most occasions, the former is all you need to mark a special event or host a party with close friends and family. Professional displays are significantly more expensive than buying fireworks online and firing them […]
Well met by moonlight – A mid-summer nights firing
The Life of a Pyrotechnical – Rod Nipper and a Shakespearean Summer Display A couple of weeks till the Summer Solstice and the longest day and as the sun sets over the Nottinghamshire hills it’s a great night for a small Prom night display.
Designing a Championship Show
Life of a Pyrotechnical Designing a Championship Show We had the delightful news last week of being drawn for the 2015 Plymouth Councils, British Firework Championship Event in August this year. The competition has been running since 1997 and has been a big date in the industry Calendar from the moment it began. Its often […]
Down on the Farm part 2 – Darkest Lincolnshire
Previously in this thread … Sam says “Yes we can”, and I set off for darkest Lincolnshire and a group of farmers who want some training in pyrotechnic bird scaring because “there have been a few incidents”! Ok so the first training session went well, once I’d found the farm, a big commercial growing site […]
Down on the farm – Part 1 “Yes we can”, says Sam
1st Galaxy gets some interesting phone calls and requests into the office, and just before Christmas Sam was contacted by a farmers training co-operative in Lincolnshire – “Do you think you could provide some training for farmers using pyrotechnic bird scarers?” Now sometimes I think Sam slips into “Bob the Builder” mode, and not just […]
The Speed Trap – need for speed, or not!
It has long been held by firers that despite the number and size of maps on the office wall, or even the sophistication of mapping software in more recent years, there is a fundamental disconnect between the lengths of time the office says you will need to get to a display, and how long it […]
