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>>Jumping jacks and aeroplanes? Are they mega fireworks or something<<


Well....if you at the photograph at http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/museum/box6.jpg , there is a small jumping jack at top centre of the photo, the one looking a bit like a startled snake. They were (allegedly) dangerous because they jumped all over the place once set off. An aeroplane looked like a large banger with a strip of cardboard attached at right angles across its centre, so looked vaguely like a biplane. You stuck it on a wall and it "flew" off loudly and in a horizonal plane...


Learning to cope with "dangerous" fireworks was a good toughening-up exercise and an excellent preparation for life! Eho needs 8 fingers and 2 thumbs anyway?

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I heartily recommend Ottery st Mary in Devon for

> bonfire night. Absolutely mental.

> Quite a long way


Ottery Saint Mary was one of the scariest things I've ever been to, massive bonfire storeys high, and burning tar barrels rolling down narrow streets, I thought I was lucky to get out alive :))

there's usually a bonfire and fireworks display at Dulwich Cricket Club, on Burbage Road. they have BBQ, mulled wine, etc, and the setting is lovely. does anyone know if they're doing one this year, and if so, what date?


PS if anyone *doesn't* fancy a bonfire on November 5th, they can always come and hear me sing Upstairs @ the EDT on that night, instead. ;-)

EDOldie Wrote:

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> Try the Dulwich Sports Club in Burbage Road by

> railway bridge. V low key and child friendly, good

> bar with real ale in the clubhouse.


Now that takes me back. I used to go to these every year when I was a kid back in the 60s.

No, DHOSA is the Dulwich Hamlet Old Scholars Association which used to meet in the Old Grammar School on the corner of Burbage and Gallery Road. I don't think they exist anymore. It was people who had been to Dulwich Hamlet Junior School in the Village. The Dulwich Sports Club is at the other end of Burbage.

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