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Crane’s fireworks, by their own admission, were acknowledged to be the best quality and value fireworks on the market. They made coloured lamps and lanterns as well as their famous fireworks just off of Deanery Road in Warmley. But with the outbreak of World War One the need for rockets, crackers and shooters was significantly less.

Some 10 million Mills bombs are thought to have left Warmley train station destined for battlefields. When the soldiers would open the box packed in Bristol they would find a note sent by one of the girls in the Crane’s packing room. Sometimes they would get a letter in return.

Image: Courtesy of Alan Bryant.