{"id":7675,"date":"2019-02-19T13:06:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/kimbolton-fireworks-ceases-trading-after-55-years\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:06:19","slug":"kimbolton-fireworks-ceases-trading-after-55-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/kimbolton-fireworks-ceases-trading-after-55-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimbolton Fireworks ceases trading after 55 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Fireworks at Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/75D4\/production\/_86346103_86346102.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Kimbolton Fireworks supplied fireworks for the opening and closing ceremonies in 2012<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A fireworks company that created the displays for the opening and closing London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games has ceased trading. <\/p>\n<p>Family-run Kimbolton Fireworks, based in Cambridgeshire, was founded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cambridgeshire-21847802\" class=\"story-body__link\">Reverend Ron Lancaster in 1964<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It said it was the only UK manufacturer of display fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>The firm confirmed the news via an answer machine message saying &#8220;we regret that Kimbolton Fireworks has ceased trading&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>All inquiries are being dealt with by insolvency practitioner Begbies Traynor, according to the message. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s headquarters were in Kimbolton, and it had a factory in Stonely. <\/p>\n<p>It provided displays for events including the handover of Hong Kong, London&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve celebrations, Trafalgar 200 and the 50th anniversary of VJ Day in London.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    The company specialised in providing fireworks for large public displays, such as London&#8217;s New Year celebrations<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cambridgeshire-47289747\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Kimbolton Fireworks supplied fireworks for the opening and closing ceremonies in 2012 A fireworks company that created the displays for the opening and closing London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games has ceased trading. Family-run Kimbolton Fireworks, based in Cambridgeshire, was founded by the Reverend Ron Lancaster in 1964. It said it was the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}