"Last night nearly 2000 people assembled to witness the display...started with the liberation of a huge balloon, about 9 feet high, which rose without a hitch to an altitude of several thousand feet....Rockets of every available description and falling stars were poured forth for nearly two hours. The exhibition was diversified by several torch dances by two dozen of the most enthusiastic golfers in improvised costumes, the local band supplying the "piping". Very fine interludes were enjoyed by lighting up the adjoining woods of Homelands in sylvan style and despatching fixed repeating shots from the ground."
Around the turn of the century, the end of the summer season in Lundin Links was marked with elaborate fireworks displays. The "Amusements Committee" of Lundin Golf Club organised these occasions. An Evening Post account from 29 August 1900 captures the extravagance of the event... "Last night nearly 2000 people assembled to witness the display...started with the liberation of a huge balloon, about 9 feet high, which rose without a hitch to an altitude of several thousand feet....Rockets of every available description and falling stars were poured forth for nearly two hours. The exhibition was diversified by several torch dances by two dozen of the most enthusiastic golfers in improvised costumes, the local band supplying the "piping". Very fine interludes were enjoyed by lighting up the adjoining woods of Homelands in sylvan style and despatching fixed repeating shots from the ground." Homelands was a mid-19th century villa in substantial wooded grounds which ran from Leven Road down to the Lundin Golf Course (near the junction of Golf Road and Links Road). The recent pictures left and below of the site help to give an impression of the venue where the above occasion took place.
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