Himley bonfire preparations are hotting up

11:23am Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in News

Left to right - Vicky Cook, Cllr Tracy Wood and Jenny Davies. Buy photo: 441229L Buy this photo » Left to right - Vicky Cook, Cllr Tracy Wood and Jenny Davies. Buy photo: 441229L

PREPARATIONS are hotting up for the Himley bonfire celebrations next month.

The annual event will be held at Himley Park on Saturday November 3 and will include a fireworks display set to a soundtrack to mark the momentous events of 2012.

The show, called a Blaze of Glory, will include music from Mick Jagger and David Bowie, Gary Barlow, Coldplay, The Verve, Shirley Bassey and Kanye West.

More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the event - which has been held each year for over 35 years.

Councillor Tracy Wood, Dudley’s cabinet member for environment and culture, said: “The Himley bonfire never disappoints and is always one of the biggest and the best shows in the country.

“I am sure thousands of people will go along to enjoy the family fun and a night of celebrating all that has been great in 2012.”

Gates are set to open at 4.30pm and Free Radio will be entertaining the crowd from 6.30pm.

The bonfire will be lit at 7.45pm with the fireworks starting at 8.30pm.

Tickets cost £8 for adults, £4 for juniors and senior citizens and free for under fives.

A family ticket for two adults and two children is £20 while car parking is £3.

A free bus service will run from Dudley, Sedgley, Quarry Bank, Brierley Hill, Halesowen and Stourbridge from 5.30pm onwards.

Further details are available from dudley.gov.uk or by calling Dudley Council Plus on 0300 555 2345.

Comments(2)

Pensnett Wammel says...
8:08am Wed 24 Oct 12

'Councillor Tracy Wood, Dudley’s cabinet member for environment and culture, said: “The Himley bonfire never disappoints and is always one of the biggest and the best shows in the country'

I went a couple of years ago and took some overseas visitiors. Having told them the history of the gunpowder plot and recalling making a guy etc, they were disappointed by the Himley event. There was no guy on top of the fire, and around the base of the rectangular stack of pallets were music posters and cut out figures of ghosts - the latter presumably a reference to halloween. This is a result of the council taking over what used to be a traditional, hands-on, participatory event - rather than the sanitised spectator event the council prefers.

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The Mayor says...
8:14pm Fri 26 Oct 12

We must be the only borough in the country which holds its bonfire outside the borough. Can you imagine how shamefaced Sandwell or Walsall or Wolverhampton would be if they had to hold their bonfire in another county. It's called the Himley bonfire because they have to hold it in Staffordshire not Dudley. No libraries, no loos, no decent shopping town, now no bonfire, at least the council is consistent.

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