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Thursday, November 20, 2008, 12:00
Tamworth put on a free night for all the family to enjoy. What a wonderful fireworks display this was.
I didn't get to the Castle Grounds until just after 7pm. It was just beginning to rain as I walked over the footbridge, there were hundreds of men, women and children, all gathered there. On the green below the bandstand were fire-eaters and dancers with fluorescent lights – the music played as they danced. People stood watching, ignoring the rain. The children carried rainbow sticks alight, some were beautiful butterflies, lit up in all the rainbow colours.
The ground beneath your feet was nothing short of a mud bath, but still more and more people were coming from all directions.
To see so many families enjoying a night together in such weather conditions was indeed a wonderful sight. After walking up to the castle itself and being met by a large queue, I decided to go up by the café which overlooks the river from Ankerside. It was dry and out of the downpour of rain, although the rain lit up in the fluorescent lights as it bounced to the ground.
Suddenly, at just after 8pm, there was a countdown from ten to one by the crowd. We all joined in and the sky lit up with the glory and array of colours as they spread across the sky. The music played as each firework displayed its wonderful colours. Silver, gold, blues, greens, shooting, rising, falling.
As they faded, yet more rose up and exploded into thin air. They left a whole sky of smoke behind them which moved in the wind across and up towards the heavens.
As more cracked and opened you had a sense of absolute wonder fill your being, not a child moved or spoke where I stood, the crowd was just taken in by it all.
What a sight to behold in such a crisis world of war, famine and credit crunch.
Well done to the organisers and Tamworth for giving the people something to talk about and remember, once again. It was just like old times when we always had a bonfire and fireworks display in the Castle Grounds.
Mrs D Armstrong, Tamworth.
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