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Post by WillowTheWhisp on Nov 5, 2008 9:33:01 GMT
Lancaster City Council's annual Firework Spectacular will take place as usual in the grounds of Lancaster Castle on Saturday November 8th. There will be music and entertainment from 12 noon with stalls selling 'traditional bonfire night fare' from 6pm onwards and what is claimed to be the most spectacular Fireworks show in the North West from 8pm to round the day off.
Williamson Park, will be open to provide a location to view the fireworks from a distance, from where you will probably get the best view. The Park Café will be open from 7.15pm til 8.45pm.
The fireworks always used to end with the Signal Beacon in the Castle grounds being lit at 8.25pm and ringing of the peal of eight bells in Lancaster Priory. Unfortunately the beacon was damaged 4 years ago and had to be removed. Despite promises to replace it by 2005 it is still missing!
We do now have an additional 2 bells in the Priory however, and so this year there will be a new and improved peal of 10.
For further information please telephone 01524 33318
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on Nov 9, 2008 23:42:37 GMT
I'm not sure if we were wrong in our heads but yesterday evening we decided to scoot up to Lancaster to see this fireworks display, despite it having rained all day more or less and the forecast for the evening being far from promising. Our friends were over from France for a few days and their daughter decided to come with us.
First of all we headed for the castle itself to see what was going on in the way of stalls and entertainment. It was absolutely bucketing down. There was a fire eater but we didn't hover around long to watch him. The stalls were mainly selling sweets (which I am trying to resist) and cakes (which I am also trying to resist) and hot dogs/burgers which seemed a tad expensive. We decided it was too crowded there anyway so we headed off up to the park, which turned out to be equally crowded but due to the layout of the landscape (ie everything is on a slope) we were able to get a great view over towards the castle from the pathway just below the cafe. The girls and I stood there in the pouring rain watching the fireworks.Coachman had more sense and went to sit in the nice warm dry cafe.
They were quite good and one or two really spectacular ones which made people ooh and aaah but I don't really think they were all that much better than the ones we saw in Morecambe at the 'I do like to be beside the seaside' weekend., Maybe being soaked through didn't help.
I don't know if it was because we were so far away but I didn't hear the peal of bells from the Priory. I would have thought we would have heard something even from that distance. Radio Lancashire had a presence at both locations.
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Post by accykeef on Nov 10, 2008 7:56:31 GMT
As Chief Head Examiner for the area I can confirm that there is in fact some dysfunction in the cortex region of your head. This condition is quite common and stems from a lack of the trace chemicals 'sensiblus commonus' and jacketus notwatertiteus.
It wasn't the rain which deterred us but a lack of inspiration to negotiate the Lancaster traffic mess scheme. In previous years, we have parked on the Morecambe side of the river and walked up to the priory. This year we stayed in and kept dry.
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I had been telling my hubby about the time I was in Morecombe when the Moby Dick and Hotel was hit by lightening and burnt down. My parents, sister and myself had just come off the Moby Dick when lightening stuck