About Us

Starburst Fireworks Ltd was formed in 2004 and began trading from Doncaster Road in Wakefield. We operated a year round firework store, somehting a bit unusual for the area, but we were passionate about our fireworks and hoped that this would reflect in our shop.
As we grew, we opened an online store and were one of the first online fireworks companies to include video footage of fireworks, something that nearly all online stores do now.
In 2006 we won awards for our shop and were voted Best Fireworks Retailer, Runner up Firework shop and 3rd place Firworks Website. This was a national vote carried out by a fireworks website and voted for by members of the general public.

We grew year by year and in 2010, we made the decision to move from our location on Doncaster Road into a Business Park. It was a difficult decision for us as our original shop was prominent on a busy arterial road, but the added space of the new location swung the decision for us.

In August 2010, we opened our new 3,000sq ft premises. Due to the extra space we had, we introduced a range of fancy dress costumes and waited to see the response. It didn't take long for us to see that fancy dress went hand-in-hand with fireworks. 2010 also saw us bring our own range of fireworks in from China under the Fantazia Pyrotechnics brand. Another first for us.

We saw Halloween, Bonfire night and New Year come and go and realised that for us to fulfill our customers requirements we had to expand. In April 2011 we invested heavily in thsi brand new website and atarted expansion in our shop, doubling the fancy dress section to over a 1,000sq ft. This added space also required a heavy investment in additional stock.

June saw a change of name from Starburst Fireworks Ltd to The Fireworks Store trading as Wakefield Fancy Dress. Out intention over the next year is to establish us as THE fancy dress shop in the Wakefield area. As a company we are customer driven and we pride ourselves on our customer service and our commitment to providing the customer with the best shopping exprience we can.

As a family run business, we don't boast the biggest this and the biggest that and we don't make promises we can't keep. We are ethical in the way we trade, we put the customer first and we try damn hard to make sure that customers get what they want, when they want it.

We are very careful in our choice of firweorks for sale to the public and we cherry pick products from suppliers that we feel are excellent value for money. If we can pass on a discount or any kind of deal we will.