Fun Facts about Bonfire Night!
Tom McConnell - Loughborough Universtity
Once the scary costumes, the face paint and the decorations from Halloween have gone away for another year, the next thing I celebrate as do most others is Bonfire night. With it coming not long after Halloween it allows you to keep the celebrations going all week if you like. Bonfire night is one of my favourite nights of the year as I feel it’s always a really nice occasion despite the premise of it being an annual commemoration of a failed assassination plot.
Here are some fun facts about Bonfire night that you might not know:
- Blue is the hardest colour in a firework to produce, whilst orange is the easiest.
- Rockets can reach up to a 150mph when they are launched (that’s over twice the UK motorway speed limit and similar to some biplanes)
- It was illegal not to celebrate Bonfire Night in the UK until 1959
- Three sparklers burning together creates the same heat as a blowtorch
- The first recorded fireworks display in England was at the wedding of Henry VII in 1486
For me I love Bonfire Night, all your typical bonfire night activities appeal to me a great deal. I love standing and just watching fireworks next to a big bonfire, in my opinion fireworks are fab. I for one am so glad that fireworks were invented and people figured out ways to make them all different colours. The other bonus to bonfire night is that once that comes around its closer to Christmas and the most wonderful time of the year!
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