Gloucester Fireworks Spectacular 2011

Show/Display

Victoria Basin
The Docks
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2LG

Tel: +44 01452 396572

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The docks will be hosting the event from 18:00 to about 20:30 in Victoria Basin in association with Gloucester Round Table and Gloucester Quays.

At the Victoria Basin site, there will be a fair, a spectacular fireworks and laser light display with a small road show playing music. We will employ a large public address (PA) system to ensure that we can make safety announcements to the public as required. The PA system will also be used to relay the music that the display is set to. Our official media partner Heart FM will be onsite, with Warren Moore in attendance and the Heart Angels. Food and refreshments will be available on site.

We have consistently received good reviews for our display and as our regular visitors will confirm, the evening offers an excellent setting to enjoy a superb display which is professionally run.

Look out for the lasers which will be projecting images, messages and animations onto the sides of the various buildings around Victoria Dock.
The effects include cones, flat scans, lissajour patterns, point modes and single beam sequences and will be coreographed with the fireworks for the main spectacular firework display.

The music and radio road show will be played live, through a larger sound system than previous years. This will enable the main audience areas to hear the music. Please note that the laser system effects, the lighting effects and the sound system are being designed, so that the best experience for any one viewing the show(s) will be in the designated viewing areas. Any one watching the display outside these areas will not see or even possibly here the whole show being planned for this years’ event.

Please visit Laser Hire Ltd’s website at http://www.laserhire.co.uk/
and play the video on the home page to see some of our past shows and displays and to get a feel of the type of effects that will be used at this years’ event.

The fireworks display is a fund raising event with proceeds being put to good use in the local community, supporting local charities and worthy causes. Run by volunteers, the aim of the display is to provide the City of Gloucester with a safe and exciting fireworks display, second to none in the locality, to help local charities like The Family Haven http://www.thefamilyhaven.com/ and to boost the local economy by bringing visitors into the Docks.

We would be delighted if you could join us in Victoria Basin to watch the display with the crowd. It will be bigger and better than ever before!

Facilities

Provider Preferences

In town/city centre
Outdoor Event

Accessibility

All Areas Accessible to Disabled Visitors
Guide Dogs Permitted
Parking Areas for Disabled Visitors

Parking & Transport

On site parking
Parking (charge)

Road Directions

From the North: Get off the M5 at Junction 11, at the roundabout take the 3rd exit onto the A40 (signposted Gloucester/Cirencester). At Elmbridge Court roundabout take the 4th exit (signposted Ross). At the next roundabout take the first exit onto the A38 and then at the next roundabout take the 2nd exit onto the A430 (Kingsholm Road). At the traffic lights turn left onto Black Dog Way and follow the road (past the Train Station on your left and then Asda on your left). At the next set of traffic lights continue forward (Trier Way). Continue forward at the next set of traffic lights and then stay in the right hand lane (you will see Gloucester Park on your right). At the cross roads turn right into Southgate Street. At the next set of lights turn left into Llanthony Road. Turn right into the car park.

From the South: Get off the M5 at Junction 12, at the roundabout take the first exit onto the B4008. At the Cross Keys roundabout take the 3rd exit onto the A38. At the next roundabout continue forward. At the traffic lights continue forward (stay in the left hand lane, signposted Ross) onto the A430, Secunda Way. Continue forward on this by pass until you come to a roundabout, stay in the right hand lane and take the 2nd exit (on to Hempstead Lane). At the traffic lights turn right onto St. Ann Way. Continue forward at the next 2 sets of lights and then turn left into Southgate Street. At the next set of lights turn left into Llanthony Road. Turn right into the car park.

Public Transport Directions

Approximately a 10/15 minute walk from Gloucester Bus and Train Station. From the Train Station, cross Bruton Way and walk in to the Bus Station. Walk through the Bus Station on to Station Road. Continue forward in to Clarence Street and turn right at the end in to Eastgate Street. At the end of Eastgate Street you will be at 'the cross' (where the four main 'gate' streets meet). Turn left into Southgate Street, walk past the Tourist Information Centre on the right and continue down Southgate Street past Kimbrose Triangle. Take the next right in to the main Docks entrance, and then the next left. Walk through the car park and the Waterway's Museum is just in front of you.