Lichfield Rugby Club's fireworks night is back on Friday 6 November, 6pm to 10.30pm, the same night as the golf club's £32-a-car display. No council show.

Bonfire Night 2026 falls on Thursday 5 November, and as things stand nothing in Lichfield district happens on the night itself. One display has a confirmed Two displays now have confirmed dates inside the district, and both are on Friday 6 November: Lichfield Rugby Club’s Fireworks Night, which its own calendar lists from 6pm to 10.30pm, and the Fireworks Night Spectacular at Lichfield Golf and Country Club, at £32 a car.

Updated 3 October: Lichfield Rugby Club has put a Fireworks Night in its 2026 club calendar for Friday 6 November, 6pm to 10.30pm. It has not yet published prices or display times. The golf club has still not given a gate or display time.

This page is updated as organisers announce.

There is no council display

Neither council runs one. Lichfield City Council’s events calendar carries nine events between September 2026 and the end of January 2027, and none of them is a bonfire or fireworks night. Lichfield District Council’s own 2026 events calendar, which was accurate at the time of printing in January and does list Remembrance Sunday, the Christmas Fayre and the lights switch-on, has nothing for early November either.

So the displays here are run by clubs, and clubs announce late.

Lichfield Rugby Club, Friday 6 November

The rugby club’s own website lists a Fireworks Night on Friday 6 November 2026, running from 6pm to 10.30pm, in its club events calendar (Lichfield RUFC). The club plays at Cooke Fields, off Tamworth Road, Lichfield, WS14 9JE.

That listing is all the club has published so far: no ticket price, no display times and no booking link. For comparison only, the last fireworks night the club advertised on its own site, on Friday 1 November 2024, had two displays and pay-on-the-gate entry (Lichfield RUFC, 2024). Do not take 2024’s arrangements as this year’s; we will add the 2026 details when the club posts them.

Lichfield Golf and Country Club, Friday 6 November

The club, on Seedy Mill Lane, Lichfield, WS13 8HE, is running a Fireworks Night Spectacular on Friday 6 November 2026. From its own event page:

  • A musical fireworks display, with the club calling it an evening of family fun
  • This is an outdoor event only. There is no access to the main clubhouse via Reception during the event, and the fireworks are viewed from a designated outdoor event area
  • Food and drink: an outdoor bar, a hot drinks bar, and street food vendors doing pizza, Greek food and gourmet hot dogs, plus doughnuts and waffles
  • For children: face painting, glitter tattoos and bouncy castles
  • Online booking only, and the club says tickets are limited

The price: one ticket type, called Firework Show, at £32. The booking system describes it as admitting one car to the event, limited to one per customer, and repeats that there is no access to the main clubhouse through Reception. It showed 198 remaining when we checked on 28 September. The club does not say how many people a car may carry.

Still to be published: the gate time and the time the display goes up. The club’s number is 01543 417 333. We will add the times here as soon as they appear.

Dress for a field in November. The whole thing is outdoors and the clubhouse is not the fallback.

Nearby, but outside the district

Drayton Manor, at Tamworth, about eight miles from Lichfield, holds its end-of-season lakeside fireworks on Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November 2026, closing its Blazing Halloween run. The resort’s fireworks page says the show starts “as the sun goes down” and publishes no start time or price, so book through its own site rather than a listings page.

That is a theme park ticket rather than a village bonfire, and it is in Tamworth borough, not Lichfield district. It is included here because it is the closest display with a fixed date on either side of the weekend.

The displays people ask about that have no 2026 date

One local fixture that comes up in searches every year had published nothing for 2026 when we re-checked on 3 October:

  • Whittington, a joint fundraiser between Whittington Cricket Club, Lichfield Hockey Club and Whittington Junior Football Club, held outside the village on the Elford road. The only first-party record still online is from 2015.

That absence does not mean the display has gone. Club events are often announced four to six weeks out, on Facebook first, so late September and October is when to expect news. Nothing here is a reason to travel on the strength of last year’s listing.

Fireworks at home

If you are letting off your own, the national rules apply here as everywhere. GOV.UK sets the curfew at 11pm to 7am, with the cut-off pushed to midnight on Bonfire Night and to 1am on New Year’s Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year. You cannot set fireworks off in a street or other public place, sparklers included. Under-18s cannot buy adult (category 2 and 3) fireworks, and category 4 fireworks are for professionals only. Registered sellers can only sell between 15 October and 10 November, 26 to 31 December, and the three days before Diwali and Chinese New Year.

Getting there and parking

Seedy Mill Lane is north of the city, off the Elmhurst road, and there is no public transport worth relying on for a 6 November evening. Cooke Fields is on the south-east side, off Tamworth Road (WS14 9JE). With both displays on the same Friday evening, expect the roads out of the city to be busier than usual. If you are heading into Lichfield instead, our parking page has the tariffs and the free car parks, and the roadworks and travel page carries live closures. Neither club has published any parking or road arrangements for the night.

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