Leeds Castle Fireworks Display

I thought I’d share mine and new boyfriend’s (BC) evening out at Leeds Castle, Well BC bought tickets to Leeds Castle for me as a treat and the cost about £14.00 so not cheep. Well we got there not too much traffic and we parking was straight forward. We parked up left the car and walked towards the fairground and display area, which again was straight forward enough. So we are there thinking ok well lets teat ourselves to a hot drink and a hot dog type thing. So we went of course to the speciality sausages section as you do! We placed our order and besides the outstanding levels of customer service that we received we walked away with one very sad burnt sausage and two hot drinks. We had a look at the sad fair that they had on offer played a doggy game and won a disturbing deformed boxing dog teddy bear thingy, they went to find some where to watch the fireworks.

Invicta Radio we the PA’s for the evening and so we endured them for a while and a laser show which was unimaginative and repeated it’s self every 5mins. So there we were waiting for the start of the fireworks and listening to Queen for the 4th time and the announcement came on the PA system the fireworks will be displayed in 15mins. 15mins later they came on again the fireworks will start in 20mins. By this point the crowd is getting a little peed off, so this keeps happening and after the 3rd time with the DJ’s delaying the display because they were waiting for the people arriving late getting to display. The crowd became a little more fed up waiting in the cold, it got to the point of the 5th announcement delaying the fireworks a third of the crowd decided to boo them off, which was quite funny, especially as they were annoying anyway. Both DJ’s must have thought oh shit, because there was only one announcement after that saying that the fireworks were starting.


The fireworks were big and pretty being set off over the castle, you could see that the fireworks were expensive. The disappointment came when 20mins into the display that this cloud of smoke filled the air above and other fireworks were getting lost in these thick plumes of smoke. Luckily a breeze came and blew some of the smoke away and the other fireworks could be seen, the display lasted about an hour and a half with continuous fireworks one after another being set off which was cool.

After the display we all made the mad dash to the car, walking back to the car took about 20mins due to the large crowd of 18000, but getting out of the car park took 2hours, by this point BC was a little grumpy and needing the little boys room. We got home about 11 o’clock when we should have got home about 8ish. Needless to say we will probably go to the free local display next year.