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A major fire has broken out at a fireworks factory in East Sussex.

Sussex Police said firefighters from the county were called to The Broyle in Ringmer, near Halland, between Lewes and Hailsham at 1350 GMT.

Witnesses have spoken of seeing a huge mushroom cloud of smoke from several miles away and fireworks going off.

http://news.bbc.co.u...ies/6204452.stm

First, hello to everyone.

I'm rekindling my interest in pyro which has been dormant for quite a few years now, in fact from a time before the internet made it so much easier to find like-minded people and information and to track down supplies.

I'm slowly reading my way through all the info I can find on the internet before I actually do anything.

One thing that I'm thinking about is where to work. I have a workshop of sorts down in my cellar which I use for non-pyro tinkering around. I don't have any kind of shed in my garden or any other type of outhouse (not a big garden either, just an old victorian terraced house in London). I could build a shed out there, and it looks like that might be the way to go eventually.

At the moment I'm thinking of just doing some basic stuff with BP to get me going before I make any major financial outlay. I am aware of the need to do any milling outside, and I could do that in the garden with a ball mill at the end of an extension lead. But I need somewhere to store supplies and to construct things.

So I'm just curious as to where people do their pyro work? Working anywhere within your house seems to be less than ideal, but does anyone do it? Are there precautions which could make it safer? Or shall I just get me a shed from the outset?