Did anyone else hear a loud explosion at about 3 am yesterday morning in SW Sheffield? It wasn't like a firework and some say there was a bright flash but we're nowhere near getting to the bottom of it. Has anyone heard anything about it or heard it themselves?

For the last 2 nights, I have seen white flashes followed by a large bang (similar to a single large firework). It's hard to tell where it's coming from (or what's causing it!!) but seems to be coming from the SW area as far as I can tell.

I'm also interested now, I'm pretty sure it's not fireworks because it's just a single bang at seemingly regular intervals.

I've been hearing loud bangs for a few nights. I'm in Crookes and it seems very local. They don't sound like fireworks, but that is what I assumed they were.

It was just the one off from here. (Dore). People rushed into the streets thinking it was a car accident. We do get firework noises at times but this wasn't that. I also spoke with an OAP later in the day who said it was definitely no firework (as in "I've heard real explosions in the past to know one etc etc...") Bit of a mystery.

Meersbrook - same noise to report.

I presumed it was kids putting fireworks in bins...MUCH louder explosion than a normal firework.

Manor Park too. More or less outside my window (or they might aswell have been!) They frightened me to death! There wasn't just one or two either, there were LOADS!!
Chloé

What the hell is going on :o :lol:

Random, loud explosions over the last 2 nights. Oh let's check the BBC... nope.... let's check The Star... nope.

Want local breaking news? Good luck! (in fact, check this forum :P)

Want local breaking news? Good luck! (in fact, check this forum )

Geoff why don't you

Moon Maiden

me and my mate where in the centre of sheffield and heard the loud bangs all day they seemed to be coming from near the train station area (ish)

Originally posted by Geoff
Want local breaking news? Good luck! (in fact, check this forum :P) Originally posted by Moon Maiden
Geoff why don't you

Moon Maiden
Why don't I what? Check this forum? I have... :lol:

No-one's getting confused with the cannon, etc this weekend, I hope...that was the Sheffield Fayre.

As for the other bangs...I'm still thinking it's new and unusual uses for fireworks dreamed up by our disaffected and bored silly youth...

I've heard that Mars is the closest it's been for thousands of years, perhaps it is visitors from outer space causing the noises.......

Could be the filming that they are doing in town.

Originally posted by Geoff
Why don't I what? Check this forum? I have... :lol:

Why don't you run a local news service?? With the news hound attitude of members you could beat the star to news stories!!

Moon

The forum acts as a news service in it's own right. People start topics, which is the same as writing an article, but with the benefit that others can also contribute towards it. In fact, I wish people would post more news stories on the forum...

Does that clear it up Moon? I was implying (in my original post) that the forum was a news service already.

It does I would love to post more news stories as I get loads wandering round the net. I also go looking for specfic article for my own site for pagan parents.

The problem I face is where the hades to post it.

Moon Maiden

HAVE HEARD MANY LOUD BANGS THIS WEEK AROUND THE LONGLEY ESTATE I THOUGHT IT WAS MY NEIGHBOURS GETTING IT ON

Martino, can you lose the capitals please, the shouting is making me deaf....:P

Yeah but if he didn't shout, we wouldn't hear him over all the bangs :o

Originally posted by Andy
Yeah but if he didn't shout, we wouldn't hear him over all the bangs :o

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Just heard another huge bang around the longley estate at 1915 hours dont think it was the heinz beans i just had

I think that is a capital idea

Originally posted by sheffix
Did anyone else hear a loud explosion at about 3 am yesterday morning in SW Sheffield? It wasn't like a firework and some say there was a bright flash but we're nowhere near getting to the bottom of it. Has anyone heard anything about it or heard it themselves?


I have seen flashes from time to time, but not heard any bangs::

Another loud explosion just been heard at 2045 hours someone must know what they are answers please.

Fireworks put in paladins makes the sound louder..I can hear them on the Shiregreen

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
The problem I face is where the hades to post it.

Moon Maiden
I tend to post a lot of news on SF. If it's Sheffield related news then post it in the Sheffield Related Chat, or general news in the general forum.

RPG reckons they are coming from the Sheffifeld Big Bash.

Nomme

I've been hearing bangs/explosions/whatever for about a week - it's odd cos I can hear them over the bass from stonehouses (which usually causes me to turn my tv up anyway!) - sound like fireworks but can't see any flashes...

I think the martian idea is the most likely...!:?

There have been some really really big fireworks manufactured this year ......:wow: :wow:

article I found about the new fireworks bill - thought it might be interesting to put it in here

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The dangers of bonfire nights have been dampened after Hamilton South MP Bill Tynan's Fireworks Bill was resoundingly approved by MPs and peers last night (monday)

Irresponsible sales and use of fireworks which terrify people and pets alike will be stopped under the Fireworks Bill. But the legislation will ensure families can continue to enjoy organised public firework displays.

Late night bangs will be banished under the Bill which also outlaws the noisiest fireworks. The legislation also restricts year round sales of fireworks and imposes stricter rules on training for those who hold professional displays.

Youths will no longer be able to buy fireworks and the legislation
imposes restrictions on importing the explosives.

Local authorities will be able to refuse and revoke licences of
irresponsible retailers and the Bill includes measures to reduce
accidents, noise and nuisance.

The last successful private Member's Bill on fireworks was in the more than 40 years ago and the Labour MP admitted he approached the latest Bill with trepidation.

However Mr Tynan's proposals received backing from cross-party MP and other organisations including the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. And more than 300,000 members of the public signed a petition in support of the Bill, which was delivered to Downing Street.

Welcoming the approval of the Bill, Mr Tynan said, " The misery caused to the general public, and domestic and wild animals by the misuse of fireworks is a growing problem all over the UK. Lack of licensing of retail outlets, periods of sale and noise levels, together with problems with importation, distribution and storage, all contribute to the nuisance use of fireworks.

" This will promote the responsible use of fireworks by limiting the
hours of the day, confining general sale to the public to a relatively short period before 5th November whilst the introduction of a two tier licensing system would recognise the need for fireworks to be available under strict conditions throughout the year to accommodate the range of
cultural festivities in this county from Diwali and Chinese New Year to birthdays and weddings. "

Mr Tynan added that fireworks needed to be dealt with from the moment they were unloaded at Felixstowe or Bootle, to their storage and sale right through to their detonation.

" We need to limit the consequences of their use through maximum decibel levels and restrictions on who they can be sold to.

" I foresee a new regime whereby we respect fireworks as the explosives that they are but acknowledge their legitimate use.

" I have been accused by some individuals — although very few — of being a killjoy. I want to make it clear that I want the Bill to promote opportunities for the responsible and safe use of fireworks. It is essential that we do not introduce a ban when there is no public demand for one.

" The Bill will help to ensure the responsible use of fireworks. It is
important that people organising private parties understand the dangers of fireworks, and I hope that the annual safety campaigns will continue to stress how dangerous those explosives can be. "

Despite a fall in firework related injuries last year, more than 1000 people ended up in hospital as a result of bonfire night accidents.

Consumer Minister Melanie Johnson said the figure was still too high and backed Mr Tynan's proposals for more restrictions on fireworks.

" In addition to the ban on air bombs and other measures I announced last year to increase safety and reduce noise nuisance, the Private Member's Bill will provide new powers to crack down on the menace of fireworks misuse. I hope we will see further reductions in injuries in the coming years."

I heard a REALLY loud bang about 3am this morning, Crookes area- seems a bit odd cos there was only one

Just heard another one!! 12.53... I'm on the edge of Burngreave (nursery street)... Sounded very large!! :o

Originally posted by Agent Dan
Just heard another one!! 12.53... I'm on the edge of Burngreave (nursery street)... Sounded very large!! :o

I think I heard that too Agent Dan.

I'm scared

Just heard 2 loud explosions at 1935 hours at longley.

I have heard nothing - 19.35 Hillsborough.

Sorry - must be pretty bad!

Moon Maiden

Did anyone hear those Saturday night, about 11.40pm?? I had just staggered back home to Col.Cres. There must have been at least eight of them - it sounded like a bloody war zone out there!

was many large fireworks going off in Crookes on Saturday about 11.40. We were in the beer garden and it was quite an impressive display assumed it was the freshers going a bit mad, (in case u hadn't noticed they descended on Saturday).

Did comment on loud bangs one night last week though when in chat room, something very loud went off and had to go see if there had been explosion. Windows rattled and many alarms going off around, but didn't sound like firework.

More huge bangs heard tonight around six oclock at longley sent all the dogs crackers.

... But still no enlightenment as to the cause... Could be the government's 'anti-terrorist' squad detonating suspicious looking packages... or the Council's new campaign to get rid of fly-posters; detonating unfortunate promotions people

Report: Stafford Road, Norfolk Park. Very loud explosion-type noise, at 16.28...ie just now.

Still not a clue.

Possibly a bit big for fireworks in bins.

That's what I was thinking!! Seems much too 'deep' for a firework - gunpowder produces a certain noise, and a short, sharp explosion, but these have a bassy tone, and last quite long.

2 big bangs around H'boro just now.

anyone hear that about 10mins ago :o ..just the one this time.

Yep,i heard that one!

God knows what's going on there...its everyday now, and no particular time or place. The time has come for some serious investigation!!!!

Yup I heard it - and a single major BANG as I went to the pub for food.... about 4:45pm

:o

There goes another one....a real rumbler!!!! Has someone declared war on us lot or what?!

You don't think wednesday have finally armed themselves, do you?!

I’ve been hearing these explosions too.
at about 3.45am this morning there was another one, there were no other bangs before or after it, and it was MASSIVE, it echoed for about 4 seconds after! i didn’t see any flashes though.
If it was a firework it was a big expensive one, so i doubt it’s kids, plus there were no other bangs and it always seems to be around 3-4am! maybe it’s a signal!:o

I haven't heard ANY of these bangs. Am I just going deaf or are you all just going mad?

Where are you based? I don't know where crystal peaks is, I'm afraid, and I'm always on the centre-north side of sheffield, so the bangs might just be up here...

Are they phone box or pillar box bombs? These are just modified fireworks put into these places to amplify the explosion.

More huge bangs heard tonight 1930 at longley also a piece about explosions in tonights star .

Originally posted by MARTINO 1
More huge bangs heard tonight 1930 at longley also a piece about explosions in tonights star .

only a week late then!

all quiet on the Collegiate front for a change tonight, and where am I....sat in my coal scuttle with a aluminium bucket on my head - what's going on, its all too quiet out there :o

Martino, any chance you could expand on your statement and actually tell us what the Star said... :roll: :lol:

Good old Star... you gotta love them being a week late... :P

Edit: Oh yeah, the name of the reporter would be useful ;)

The Derby Evening Telegraph earlier this week had a story on youths in the South Normanton/Pinxton area (M1 J28) apparently making home made bombs from 'recipies' they have got from the internet...Scary stuff, but can this also be the answer for these 'explosions' in Sheffield???...not sure if the story is still there but the website is www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk, I think the story was from Monday 22/09...Sorry to be so vague, but it's been a long week so far...

Sorry Guys, rubbish link...try this http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=64387&command=displayContent&sourceNode=63914&contentPK=7150198


hope it works!!

Well another loud boom about 40 mins ago. They are even setting off my car alarm. Someone must know what it is and who is doing it but as with lots of other anti social behaviour they turn a blind eye. I was wwoken the other morning by one at 4.45 and never got back to sleep. Am totally p****d off now.

Over the past few days I've noticed a series of loud bangs in the city centre. They appear to start at just before 11 and finish about 30 minutes later. They are spaced out as if they were on a timed detinator. Anyone else in the city centre heard these or know what it is? Could it be related to the SW explosions? Or could Sheffield be a new training camp for terrorist explosive experts??????? :?

I can confirm through my military sources that it is a sonic boom from secret testing of military attack stealth aircraft. They are taking off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and flying regular sorties over South Yorkshire. This region was chosen because of the topography of the land which would prevent the sound from resonating to further regions and causing unnecessary alarm.

:D yeah, yeah

There much closer to the ground than that, and they're getting louder!! I think we should form a scooby-doo style investigation team!!

"I'd 've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling forumers!!"

I think you'll find its your ears that are closer to the ground..if you hear a plane it don't mean that its flying at 6ft off the ground.

Surely it's not all military...are they honestly flying dozens of aircraft over Sheffield all day every day? Or is it that they can account for one or two explosions a day/a week?
More info please Major:D

13.47 there goes another one. car alarm set off again.

Its not explosions cosy..it is a sonic boom caused by high velocity aircraft...the boom is more widely associated with space shuttle flights and could be heard on a regular basis over Texas during landing procedures for the shuttle...the aircraft thats being tested is developing stratosphere flight levels..i.e.almost in space and cannot be detected by radar...due to the thin air they can travel at speeds way beyond that of concorde

Originally posted by major decker
Its not explosions cosy..it is a sonic boom caused by high velocity aircraft...the boom is more widely associated with space shuttle flights and could be heard on a regular basis over Texas during landing procedures for the shuttle...the aircraft thats being tested is developing stratosphere flight levels..i.e.almost in space and cannot be detected by radar...due to the thin air they can travel at speeds way beyond that of concorde
Codswhallop! :lol:

I beg your pardon. In my haste to go to lunch I forgot ...'explosions' would have been more correct.

I'm aware of what a sonic boom is:P

Question still is: can the military account for ALL the 'explosions' we are hearing around Sheffield, or are there also other explanations?
Cos if it is all the military (and even if it isn't) I feel we deserve a fuller explanation and a bit of a timetable.

mmm...Crystal Peaks eh??? Major Decker to all Flight Commanders...dispatch war rocket Ajax..launch Sidewinder MX43II missiles to co-ordinates S36 area..wide spread

They ain't supertram Cosy...this is the military you're taking about...I can imagine it now....2 old grannies at bus stop "Mavis?? has the 12:53 sonic boom gone past yet??" "I think u missed it Doris" "flippin heck..how am I gonna get me pension now...damn you MOD..printing out of date timetables"

Originally posted by major decker
mmm...Crystal Peaks eh??? Major Decker to all Flight Commanders...dispatch war rocket Ajax..launch Sidewinder MX43II missiles to co-ordinates S36 area..wide spread
S36.... go ahead... would miss me a mile off!

Still don't believe a word of it mate! 8)

fairly does..been rumbled..I aint a major...just a private!!!
In all seriousness we have been racking our brains..the sonic boom theory is very plausable if you think about it...especially considering this regions popularity for funny shaped aircraft incidents...take a look at http://freespace.virgin.net/roy.hale/newpage5.htm if you get chance....probably is b/s but its better than my previous theory of young scallies flying remote helicopters over the 2 funnels at Tinsley and dropping airbombs down em

[RPG -fixed link]

rubbish link...lose the www


freespace.virgin.net/roy.hale/newpage5.htm

boom..another one...14:37 pm...I am in Shalesmoor..sounded bloody close to me

we're under attack!!!!! 4 explosions in 7 minutes...think I have solved the mystery..will keep u informed

Big explosion here...just popping out to check...sounded very close.
(16.38, Thursday)

I think that was prob'ly a banger (or ten) in a bin

I work for Aon on Queens street in S1 and I have heard at least 15 of these bangs all day they are really begining to get on my wick.

:evil:

Do any of you live or work near a forge ?

Someone more mathematically inclined could sort out some kind of poll or table to figure out where we are/aren't hearing these things, and maybe we could narrow it down to something in particular.
Though I still think messing about and experimenting with fireworks has a lot to do with it, some of the noises just aren't that explicable.

Re: Aon on Queen Street, domvar - there is a Brass Founders on Princess Street near Shalesmoor which could account for repetitive loud bangs ;)

Sounds more like blasting than banging only time I have heard bangs like it is when I was at a quarry or watching demolition of flats.

The other thing is that I have been there for two years and this is the first time it has happened.

I'm also at home now (City road / granville road junction and can still haer them here)

Very strange indeed.

99 percent sure it is fireworks.....seen em over near pitsmoor and burngreave area...but there have been loads today...apparently theres an article in tomorrows edition of sheffield star

Currently sat at work at the bottom of West Street (leopold street end) and just heard around 5 large, what sounded like explosions very closeby... Could have been fireworks, but sounded like controlled explosions to me... Probably the council digging for gold...

But still very strange that no-one knows for definite what they are and more importantly, where and why!!

The only thing I can think of is that 'they' are doing a seismic survey.

I saw them launched this afternoon - maroons exploding at about 100' in the air. They seemed to be launched from a yard somehere near Fabric Warehouse, Shalesmoor in the Kelham Island area - at one point, three at a time. Why is another question!

A friend of mine phoned the police to ask.

Apparently a *very* unfriendly and tight-lipped WPC said 'Yes, we know about them, they are controlled explosions, no I can't tell you of what, no we can't give information about when they will occur, no we can't tell you that, etc.'.

Stranger and stranger...

Jim

Originally posted by jimS
A friend of mine phoned the police to ask.

Apparently a *very* unfriendly and tight-lipped WPC said 'Yes, we know about them, they are controlled explosions, no I can't tell you of what, no we can't give information about when they will occur, no we can't tell you that, etc.'.

Stranger and stranger...

Jim
Ring him back and say ''I pay your f****** wages PC Plod now give me the damn information''.

That'll work... I promise :lol:

I've notied that jims has called the police about it but they refused to give and answer. Well I've just found this...

"According to RS, it’s the drug dealers announcing fresh stocks by letting off fireworks as texting is too easy an option."

Weird.

Originally posted by domvar
Sounds more like blasting than banging only time I have heard bangs like it is when I was at a quarry or watching demolition of flats.

The other thing is that I have been there for two years and this is the first time it has happened.

I'm also at home now (City road / granville road junction and can still haer them here)

Very strange indeed.

Interesting point - there's demolition going on in Pitsmoor as we speak...the Woodside flats are being knocked down

http://www.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/33aug03/woodside1.htm

At least that is what I have heard, that the Tracy gang are flying overhead in Thunderbird 2 to rescue all the people in Hillsborough.

So, watch out for a big green blimp flying overhead, well, ya never know.

Personally I believe it is the police running some kind of training operation.

They look like some kind of signalling device as they leave a trail of smoke behind them from ground level and explode about 10 or 12 stories up with a white flash and leaving a doughnut shaped cloud behind them.

Most of the explosions I’ve heard (and seen if you follow the smoke trail) have come from behind the police station on Tenter St.

That sounds like a Maroon - I know that the Coastguard and RNLI use them as a signalling device to 'call out the troops' so to speak - in places where not all of them have pagers and so on.

We have started having them - but I am sure they are simply large fireworks!!

May just be me

Moon

Having heard several loud bangs today I have noticed a difference between them. Some are bangs and are obviously fireworks. The ones that are setting off my car alarm are booms. There was an article in last nights Star about it.One theory is that it is contractors frightening pigeons away from buildings. Another popular one is aircraft breaking the sound barrier.Whatever it is I hope it stops soon.

Loads of loud bangs tonight at longley if they are fireworks then someone has plenty of money.

I've been hearing loads of these booms too.

At first I put it down to the annual onslaught of fireworks, but they really don't sound like firework bangs at all.

Though as someone suggested they could be fireworks *in* something, like a bin?

But I just don't think they are??

I'm totally intrigued though as to what they are!

Anyone fancy going undercover and finding out?! (undercover where though, I'm not so sure!! the ministry of booms??!)

Originally posted by major decker
I can confirm through my military sources that it is a sonic boom from secret testing of military attack stealth aircraft. They are taking off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and flying regular sorties over South Yorkshire. This region was chosen because of the topography of the land which would prevent the sound from resonating to further regions and causing unnecessary alarm.

And a squadron of pink (cold) Pigs have just flown past my window.

Originally posted by ~JTH~
That sounds like a Maroon - I know that the Coastguard and RNLI use them as a signalling device to 'call out the troops' so to speak - in places where not all of them have pagers and so on.

ive heard one of them, and they are VERY loud, they do make a hell-of-a-boom...

You can hear the noise late at night from the Steel works...

Either that or from the Incinerator...

I work minutes from the Cathedral in a tall building. I have witnessed these things going off.

They shoot about 100/200 feet into the air, leaving a trail of white smoke, and then explode - a very small and very bright flash of light, followed by a ball of white smoke, followed, less than half a second later, by a loud boom. From here, they are very loud.

Sometimes two or three explode virtually simultaneously.

They appear to emanate from somewhere behind or around the big police station just down from Sytner BMW.

Although most tend to explode in the same volume of sky, a few have been seen exploding up to 250 yards from the area of main activity.

These things are either rocket launched or mortar propelled. When I say rocket launched I mean like a small firework, and when I say mortar propelled I mean like a big display firework. The smoke trails they leave behind are either rocket exhasut fumes or fumes from the burning fuse. I suspect the former.

We also called the cops last week and were told the same thing: "Controlled explosions. Nothing to worry about."

Hope this helps.

The Saint O:)

An email I just received:

Dear Saint James,

I refer to your recent enquiry regarding loud bangs/explosions over Sheffield. I would inform you that we have investigated this complaint and identified the source as a premises in Kelham Island. Unfortunately there are health & safety implications for our officers approaching the perpetrators at this time without Police assistance. We are therefore due to make a visit to the premises later this week together with the Police and Fire Brigade in order to resolve the problem.

Should you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact <name removed> on 0114xxxxxx as I'm away from work for the next two weeks.

Yours sincerely

<name removed>
Environmental Protection Service

It gets stranger and stranger........

[nope - wrong sorry]

its all about people putting fireworks in post boxes in parsons cross...

http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=667978

I'm dreading the fireworks this year. Last year we had our phone box blown up, it was an almighty explosion and could easily have blinded or killed someone. Luckily at the moment it blew there was nobody around, 10 seconds either way and someone would have been seriously injured.

I dread to think what the scummers have planned for this year.

Our phone box was blown up too :( Mustve took some doing, they shut half of our street off for a few days afterwards!

I imagien theyll try and turn my car into a rocket this year.

Oh I've just heard one. About a couple of minutes ago. Seemed to be in the Broomhall area. Bloody loud!

Nomme

It was a firework - saw it from our office near Safeways.

I'm anti-fireworks at the best of times, but what exactly is the chuffin' point of setting them off during the day?

Originally posted by Wilb
Our phone box was blown up too :( Mustve took some doing, they shut half of our street off for a few days afterwards!

I imagien theyll try and turn my car into a rocket this year.

That's the one that was on the next road down from me - made quite a mess...

Originally posted by Saint James
I work minutes from the Cathedral in a tall building. I have witnessed these things going off.

They shoot about 100/200 feet into the air, leaving a trail of white smoke, and then explode - a very small and very bright flash of light, followed by a ball of white smoke, followed, less than half a second later, by a loud boom. From here, they are very loud.

Sometimes two or three explode virtually simultaneously.

They appear to emanate from somewhere behind or around the big police station just down from Sytner BMW.

Although most tend to explode in the same volume of sky, a few have been seen exploding up to 250 yards from the area of main activity.

These things are either rocket launched or mortar propelled. When I say rocket launched I mean like a small firework, and when I say mortar propelled I mean like a big display firework. The smoke trails they leave behind are either rocket exhasut fumes or fumes from the burning fuse. I suspect the former.

We also called the cops last week and were told the same thing: "Controlled explosions. Nothing to worry about."

Hope this helps.

The Saint O:)


I can see them out of my window when they go off - they do indeed come from a building off Corporation Street, in the yard beside a building behind 'bhambra top fashions'.

They are fireworks - have seen a few go up at night from there. During the day you can just see the trail of smoke. I reckon its a fireworks factory or wholesaler testing how load their stock is - or trading standards or something.

Due to the shape of Sheffield centre, surrounded by hills, I'd imagine it would echo all around.

If another one goes off during the day I'll try and snap the smoke, if I can get the digicam turned on quickly enough!

They seem to have stopped in the lat few days.

There have been a few loud explosions round here where i live in rotherham and i was taking the dog out earlier and found some tubes that looked a bit like the ones left over from fireworks but plain white. The dog was sniffing round them like mad. I think they definitely have something to do with the explosions round here but i dont know whether the same applies to the ones in sheffield. From what youve said though they do sound the same.
Must be some sort of craze to keep the terminally stupid teenage gangs entertained for a few minutes. Good on them!

I work in the City centre. Each early afternoon for the past two weeks there has been a loud bang. It sounds like the 'gun' just before a two minutes silence - September 11, Armistice Day etc. At first we thought that was what it was. Then we thought it was to scare the pigeons from the Town hall building (are we nuts or what?). Surely not everyday!

http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=670248

FIREWORK PUB BLAST

YOBS who hurled a massive firework into a Sheffield pub have been condemned by firefireghters for putting lives at risk.

Staff at the Cutlers Arms in Gleadless were stunned when a giant display-style firework exploded – blowing out seven ground floor windows.
Lights were shattered, electrics were damaged and an air vent was blown out in the blast.
A section of wood panelling from inside the pub flew through the air and was found embedded in a wall on the other side of the room.
The landlady of the Leighton Road pub, who does not want to be named, said the attack would have killed customers if it had happened just 30 minutes earlier.
"Luckily the customers had all left but just half an hour earlier we still had a full pub, so who knows what might have happened," she said.
"The shattered glass could have caused all sorts of injuries but what worried me was when I saw how a piece of wood panelling from one side of the room had ended up embedded in a wall.
"We had heard what sounded like loud gunfire or a car backfiring earlier in the night, but now we realise it must have been more of these fireworks going off.
"I would like to know where they are coming from because from the damage to the pub they must be really powerful – it looks like a bomb went off."
Darren Stanniland, a community safety officer for South Yorkshire Fire Service, said lives could have been lost.
"There may not have been any customers in the pub at that time of night but staff were still there clearing up, so there was the potential for someone to have been badly burned, maimed or even killed," he said.
"We are seeing more and more of these powerful professional-style fireworks being used in attacks like this and if something is not done soon an innocent person will die or end up in hospital, maimed for life because of the wreckless actions of others.
"We are working closely with the police on this and have given them a list of all the retailers licensed to sell fireworks so that officers can visit them and enforce the message that they must not be sold to anyone underage.
"The people letting off these fireworks may not realise just how dangerous they are.
"Some of them are so powerful these days they are just like dangerous explosive weapons."

04 October 2003

Originally posted by purplepippa

"We are working closely with the police on this and have given them a list of all the retailers licensed to sell fireworks so that officers can visit them and enforce the message that they must not be sold to anyone underage.
"The people letting off these fireworks may not realise just how dangerous they are.
"Some of them are so powerful these days they are just like dangerous explosive weapons."

04 October 2003

Sheffield's own weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps they should also be banned from selling them to tanned, mustashioed, beret wearing men...

I was out on my bike in Wharncliffe Woods on Thursday (2nd Oct, some time after 5-6 i think it was) when i heard a REALLY loud bang which echoed for about 15-20 seconds!
Theres usually people in a nearby field firing shotguns but no one was there at this particular time. Also it was far louder than a shotgun and with more of a 'boom' sound rather than a 'bang' like a gun.

Seems very odd all these explosions. I'm suprised there hasn't been much in the media about it.

The Barnsley Chronicle carries two stories this week about 'explosions'

One is about 'Unexplained mystery explosions (in Barnsley) and the other is about youths using a large firework to destroy a phone box. The door was hanging off it's hinges and the roof was 'peeled back' like a tin.

andyb

It's some of those massive airbomb rockets. Not sure if they are black market only. They are so loud that they actually send shock waves through the air.

Fireworks are a lot more powerful than in the past.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Standard Fireworks the only manufacturers and suppliers to the UK back in the 70's and 80's?

Today I was in the Hillsborough precinct and this stall holder in there who sells fireworks has informed me that the loud noises that everyone has been on about IS fireworks, it is these very big rockets and when I described the noise that everyone has reported, he mentioned that these fireworks are the culprits and even showed me one of them, and to say they are big is an understatement.
So the explanation is finally found, after a lot of umm'ing and ahh'ing, we now know.

What a scumbag. Why not buy a load and then keep 'em for a few months and we'll let them off in his garden at 2am every night for 12 weeks.

Well, ain't there supposed to be a new bill in place, stopping people firing these friggin things off?
Is the bill available on the net, and if not, why?

Heard a good few earlier tonight. Most annoying indeed.

Originally posted by Kry10
Well, ain't there supposed to be a new bill in place, stopping people firing these friggin things off?
Is the bill available on the net, and if not, why?


As far as I know there is a new bill but these things take a while, if only because our government has to notify every shop keeper in the country, every police office in the country, every customs officer in the country, indeed every daft young lad in the country (or lass she quickly say to avoid sexist criticism)...and all other intersted participants

These things must obviously take a while

But I am reliably informed that next year will be very different and may God help the perpetrators

Louise

Oh yeah sorry, I only answered half the post

The rest will be available on the internet via either the Consumer Minister or the MP who brought the new law in, some Scottish guy called Bill Tynan, you GOOGLE people ought to be able to find out all about it, and him

Louise

Originally posted by Kry10
Today I was in the Hillsborough precinct and this stall holder in there who sells fireworks has informed me that the loud noises that everyone has been on about IS fireworks, it is these very big rockets and when I described the noise that everyone has reported, he mentioned that these fireworks are the culprits and even showed me one of them, and to say they are big is an understatement.
So the explanation is finally found, after a lot of umm'ing and ahh'ing, we now know.

Tut :roll:

I was hoping the martians were attacking :(

Hi,

We had 2 loud explosion type sounds at about 7.30pm this evening. I am in Kiveton Park so am surprised to hear these. At first I was a bit concerned but recalled reading about these last week on here.

Has anyone else heard them this evening?

Cheers,
MissyB

I have already stated what these loud bangs are, they are fireworks, big ones, so enough with trying to suss out what they are, the answer has been found, put this thread to rest, please.

me and my mate where in the centre of sheffield and heard the loud bangs all day they seemed to be coming from near the train station area (ish)


Yeah the kids keep letting off fireworks at the top of Park Hill Flats.
The other day I was at Heely Farm and I heard a really loud explosion that lasted for about ten seconds. It sounded like a whole fireworks factory had gone up!! It scared the goats too . . .
I looked for smoke in the sky but there wasn't any. If it is fireworks I wish they'd quit it!!

Sorry Kry I didn't read your post!!:(

Having established that the majority of "explosions" are indeed fireworks, I have started a fresh new topic here:
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3722