Well, I'm pleased to say that our new look website is now live (with a few more pages too); more importantly we've moved our domain to a new ISP now which should give us a quicker website. Thank you for your patience during the rather painful transition period between the 2 hosting providers. Normal service would appear to be now resumed ...

Well 2010 is now well underway and we're busier than ever. Despite the recession. We have almost 30 confirmed shows over the next few months - easily enough to keep us busy over the Summer and beyond. Of course, we have plenty of trained and experienced Crew Members so we're able to fire multiple shows on the same night, luckily ;-) An increasing number of shows are to music too - I love creating them and I know our teams love working on them too - music adds a completely new dimension to any display. We're even getting busy with Christmas Light turn-ons for several councils around the UK. Here's to a hectic year !

It's official, we have a brand new website look for 2010. Why not visit us and have a look. Hi-5 Fireworks are designers, importers and retailers of Professional [CAT4] Fireworks in the UK. We are also a Fireworks Display Company so if you have something to celebrate why not give us a call !!

We're now designing our new fireworks for delivery around May next year.When our next containers are delivered they will contain updated versions of many of our existing products along with some absolutely stunning new products - we can't wait to show you our custom designed cylinder shells and amazing shape shells. Just wait until you see our sea-blue strobe shells and 14, 30 and 49mm Roman Candles and Z-shape cakes. Would you be interested in ordering some bespoke fireworks from us ? For a minumum quantity of around 50 cases we could order, manufacture and register premium quality CAT4 fireworks of your own design - and you'd be the only person who had them !! Drop us an email for further information if you're interested (no later than Feb '10 for our next order).

We're having a summer sale of CAT4 fireworks with up to 30% off our most popular Professional Fireworks until July 31st. New customers are very welcome to take-up this amazing offer too ! Save yourself and your Company £££'s and place your order before the stock runs out. Once it's gone, it's gone ;-) Grab a list of the SALE PRICES by clicking HERE.

We're getting really busy now with enquiries for 2009 shows. This year lots of the enquiries are for Wedding and Engagement celebrations. We offer brilliant value for money because we import & design our own fireworks. Weddings are a speciality of ours too and we have many years experience with providing spectacular firework displays. If you're thinking of getting married give us a call and end your most special day with a bang !

The image is from a large display we recently fired which requiring a very large number of aerial shells. You can see the racking holding the mortars for a range of 2” and 3” shells. These mortars are already loaded in the picture and you can see the fuse at the top of a number of the tubes.

I added some really nice HelmetCam footage taken at recent Firework Displays to our Video Vault on the website today. Filming by PyroDave and featuring PyroBub and PyroHams getting exploded by various Cakes, Candles and Shellage ;-) NB. Do NOT try this at home folks !

We've imported some brilliant Wireless Sequencers, and they're available in our webstore now for just £259. The system is an 18 cue wireless firing system & powerful sequencer with input/output trigger functionality via wireless or wire in a waterproof tough ABS case. Ideal as either small stand alone firing system or a sequencer connected to a larger system eg. pyromate.

Today I've added another 12 short videos of our new Professional Display Fireworks - you can see them by clicking HERE ;-) Alternatively you could use the link on our website and navigate there yourself ... We recently had a Demonstration Evening to show some of our new display fireworks and this is where a number of the new videos were filmed. I've also put a few onto YouTube - see if you can find them !

Just for fun, I added a load of pictures which we took whilst unloading our latest Fireworks Delivery at the end of August. You can see them by visiting our website and following the links or by clicking HERE ;-) It took us 4.5 Hours to unload the container because it was 6 hours late and some of the team had to leave before it got to us at our storage facility. It was the hardest 4 hours I've ever had ;-)

Included in our latest Fireworks Delivery were our new 49mm Display Candles. Not the usual 47mm candles you see being used around the UK these days - these bad boys are right up to the MAX size we're allowed under the current regulations [a 50mm candle would be classified as 1.1G and therefore useless for normal UK purposes or storage].There are 2 types of these large candles currently available from us - I'll upload some video in the next week or so - but they're both amazing. One is Red Crackling Tail with Green Strobe Mine & the other is Blue Comet with Silver Wave Tail and Red Strobe Mine. Both items were designed and manufactured exclusively for Hi-5 Fireworks.

Looking at the image above you can see that the Maersk Sydney (the anchor symbol at the bottom of the map) is nearly here. It was just South of Hastings at 7am this morning and it's heading to Felixstowe which is at the top of the map. Using the scale you can see that it's only about 70 Nautical Miles away and at it's top speed of around 28 knots that would only take about 3-4 Hours including the enormous distance it takes to slow down such a huge vessel. [www.hi5-fireworks.com]

We now have 16 videos on the website showing a small selection of our CAT4 [Professional] fireworks - we stock loads more than this and they're just for a general guidance on the effects - you need to see them in real life to get a proper feel for them all !

I’ve added some more videos taken recently of some of our CAT4 [Professional] Fireworks. There are a couple of shells and various large 30mm cakes in the videos. When the new fireworks get here we will add some more videos to demonstrate the amazing new items we’ve imported for the first time into the UK.

Our fireworks are on a ship called the Maersk Sydney which will soon arrive in the UK. This massive vessel can carry hundreds of shipping containers at once as you can see from the picture. You can even track it's progress yourself at www.vesseltracker.com - to do this you will need the ship's IMO number which is 9289958.

The picture above was taken just as our latest container was being secured ready for shipping over to the UK. It’s hard to imagine how difficult it must be to pack with that level of accuracy [remember - the boxes are not all the same size or shape] - you wouldn’t squeeze an extra packet of sparklers in there.

For over 15 years we’ve been designing and firing firework displays both large and small. From private parties to large corporate functions and grand openings. From fields to rooftops and from barges to stately homes - chances are we’ve done a display in similar circumstances before ...