Bristol’s oldest fireworks company is not only one of the city’s most successful - but the supplier to hundreds of cities across the UK each year. Skyburst fires from Land’s End to the Shetland Islands and everywhere else in between.
If you live in Bristol, you will have likely been to one of their displays over the years - it has supplied the Downend fireworks for at least 15 years, Camford Park’s Roundtable event and lots of displays at local schools. Skyburst also provided the fireworks display at Bristol Balloon Fiesta for more than three decades, donating tens of thousands of pounds worth of fireworks in the process.
Alan Christie, the co-founder of Skyburst, remembers pulling together the little pocket money he had with the other children to buy fireworks in his home town of Frome. They would host their own community bonfire events for many years before he then settled in Bristol some years later.
