Once Again U K Shows The World How It Is Done......

[ToraToraTora]

[237SJ]

And we got the year right!

[Sqad]

I particularly liked Hong Kong's contribution.

[237SJ]

I missed HK's by a day. The far east always does fireworks well.

[Spicerack]

They did have the 'emissions charges' to spend.

[MallyJ]

I wonder who pays for that display.....

[douglas9401]

We all pay, in the end.

[ToraToraTora]

you mally, it'll be on your next council tax bill. Cheers

[gingejbee]

...yes, we can waste money with the best of them....

[Canary42]

Credit to https://www.titaniumfireworks.com

[Tuvok]

Tora - like your avatar - I used to watch Monkey as well.

[shoota]

I'm all for minimalism.
A rocket and a sparkler would have been sufficient.
Especially as that lot cost £3.25 million....

[jno]

I posted this last night, but the cost was a bit over £3m, and ticket sales (10,000 @ £10) would have covered about £1m of that.

[jno]

oops, 100,000. They reckon that people coming to London to see them pump about £6m into the city economy.

[sanmac]

An amazing show. I was thinking to how many elderly Londoners this evoked memories of the entirely different pyrotechnics in the air and on the ground during the Blitz.

[237SJ]

It never made my Mum think of that. An amazing display. The whole world can do a good fireworks show but they don't have Big Ben..

[sanmac]

What makes it even more amazing, and makes you think how do they do it is the fact that it's a one time thing: You can't "rehearse" these occasions.

[jno]

didn't think you'd approve of such a flagrantly anti-Brexit display, TTT

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/01/sadiq-khan-angers-brexiters-pro-eu-fireworks-display-london-new-years-eve

[Mamyalynne]

That connection made a thread all by itself Jno, by SP1814 - Tora commented on it.

[jno]

ah, I missed that, thank you, Mamya.