Bonfire Night in Blackpool 2019: all of the firework displays and Guy Fawkes events
Family Bonfire & Fireworks Night- Blackpool Cricket Club
Tuesday 5 November 2019 - 5pm-10pm
Food outlets also serving hot and cold drinks
Entry admission on gate.
Entrance is £5 per person
Children under fives go free.
Families - two adults and three children are £15.00
Blackpool Cricket Club, Barlow Crescent , West Park Drive, Blackpool, FY3 9EQ
Lytham Round Table Fireworks Display
Tuesday 5 November 2019 - 5:30pm
Fireworks due to start at 7:30pm
No dogs or sparklers allowed
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Hide AdDiscounted advance tickets can be purchased from; Fylde Rugby Club, Kelly’s Convenience Store in Ansdell.
Fylde Rugby Football Club, Blackpool Road, Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, FY8 4EL
Cottam Hall Bonfire and Fireworks Night
Tuesday 5 November 2019 - 6pm
Poulton Rotary Club will be holding their 32nd Annual Charity Bonfire and Fireworks Display Cottam Hall Fields
Price: adults £5 / children £3 / family £15
Cottam Hall Playing Fields, Blackpool Old Road, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 7RN
Fireworks at Fleetwood Town
Sunday 3 November 2019 - Gates open at 6.30pm
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Hide AdThere will be fireworks, pop-up bars, a mascot race, competitions, face painting, magician Jason Rea, and the whole event will be compèred by Fleetwood Town’s Wayne Bibby.
Price: Tickets for the Parkside Stand are £4 for adults, and £2 for under 16s.
Tickets on sale from the club shop and ticket office.
Highbury Stadium, Park Avenue, Fleetwood, FY7 6TX
Firework Extravaganza at Marine Hall
Tuesday 5 November 2019 - 5.30pm - 9pm
Fireworks start at 7.30pm
Price: Free
Marine Hall, The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 6HF
A History of Bonfire Night
“Remember remember the fifth of November.” But just why do we venture out into the cold to stand around a bonfire and set off fireworks every year?
Of course, it’s all to do with Guy Fawkes who, on November 5, 1605, was arrested while guarding the explosives he and a team of accomplices had placed beneath the House of Lords.
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Hide AdThe Gunpowder Plot was intended as a murderous prologue to a Midlands revolt designed to disrupt a ceremony in which King James I’s nine-year-old daughter was to be installed as the Catholic head of state.
But it failed when authorities were tipped off by an anonymous letter.
In its early days, Bonfire Night was an enforced public day of thanksgiving, celebrating the fact that King James I’s life was spared by the plot’s failure.
Gunpowder Treason Day was the main English state commemoration, but it wasn’t originally the cosy celebration with sparklers and hot drinks we’ve come to know today.
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Hide AdWith strong anti-Catholic overtones, violence was known to flare up, and sermons warning against the dangers of Catholicism were often preached against a backdrop of burning effigies of the Pope.
Even long after the day’s origins, 19th century towns saw class-warfare erupt; it wasn’t until 1859 – when the Observance of 5th November Act was repealed – that the violence began to subside.
By the 20th century, the event became more recognisable as the Bonfire Night we know today, with the setting off of fireworks a tongue-in-cheek metaphor for Guy Fawkes’ sternly guarded cargo.