[peanut]

Times have changed a lot. In the early 80's I used to buy bangers, mini rockets, air bombs and air bomb repeaters etc with pocket money and money from 'penny for the guy'ing' which (the guy) went on the local bonfire. Those fireworks were really cheap to buy at that time. Also remember buying them on the way to school as there wasn't an age limit back then.

Bonfires luckily have died out which is no bad thing. Some bonfires back then were huge too. Also gone are the public service announcement on the safety of fireworks as that used to be a big thing in the past, probably due to banning most of the fireworks we could buy in those times.

I do think pets and cost of living has a lot to do with it dying down quite a bit, that and people tend to just go to organised displays now.