Bedford Fireworks 2026: Blues Friday 6 November, £9 Online

The Bedford Blues Fireworks Display and Funfair is on Friday 6 November 2026 at Goldington Road. The club announced it on 7 September and tickets are on sale now: £9 online, under-6s free. Gates, funfair, bars and food open at 6pm, the children’s display is at 7pm, the main display is at 8pm, and nobody is admitted after 8pm.

Updated 6 October: Ampthill’s tickets are on sale and its beacon will be lit by a Local Hero chosen from public nominations. The Blues display is still on sale at £9.

Updated 30 September: the club has confirmed the date, prices and times, and tickets are on sale. Ampthill’s display is the same night, and the Secret Farm at Moggerhanger has one a week earlier, on Friday 30 October.

The key facts

All from the club’s announcement of 7 September and its ticket page, checked on 30 September.

• Date: Friday 6 November 2026. Bonfire night itself is a Thursday this year.
• Where: Goldington Road, the Blues’ home ground, about five minutes’ walk from the town centre.
• 6pm: gates, funfair, bars and food outlets open. The ticket page lists the event as running from 6pm to 9pm.
• 7pm: the children’s display, shorter and quieter.
• 8pm: the main display.
• 8pm: last admission, strictly. The club says it in every announcement.
• General admission: £9 online. Children under 6 go free.
• Hospitality: The Burrow at the Blues, £37 a head, with a meal from Chicken George, a private bar and a viewing gallery. The Dovecote Park Suite, £55 a head, with a two-course dinner of bangers and mash then sticky toffee pudding, and a private viewing gallery.

Buy in advance: there may be no gate sales

The club’s wording this year is that it expects “no tickets available on the gate”, and it describes the display as “selling out in advance annually”. The £9 is the online price; the club calls it discounted, but it has not published a gate price for 2026. If you mean to go, buy now rather than on the night.

What you can and cannot bring

From the ticket page’s restrictions:

• No food or drink may be brought into the ground, and no glass bottles on site.
• No smoking in the FK Restoration Stand.
• Only guide dogs are allowed inside the ground, so leave other dogs at home.

Food outlets line the main drive in front of the funfair. The Scrum Bar, Rebel Bar and CMC Marquee are open for drinks only.

How it has run before

The club has held the display on a Friday every year it has run since 2019, with no display in 2020 because of Covid.

Under-6s have gone free every year. In earlier years all three entrances opened: the main gates on Goldington Road, the Burrow entrance opposite Bushmead Avenue, and the hospital gate off Kimbolton Road. The club has not yet listed entrances for 2026.

Parking: there is none at the ground

The ticket page is blunt: “There is no parking available on site.” The club points people to nearby residential streets and town centre car parks, and asks them to walk, use public transport or share cars.

On-street parking in Bedford is free after 6pm Monday to Saturday everywhere except Castle Lane, where charging runs to 11pm. Several council car parks close before the crowd leaves at about 9pm, so check the closing time before you leave the car. Our Bedford parking guide has the tariff, closing time and free periods for each council car park.

Any roadworks on Goldington Road or Kimbolton Road that week will show on our Bedford roadworks and travel page, refreshed from the national street works register.

The council is not running a display

Bedford Borough Council’s park events calendar lists every event booked on council parkland. It has no fireworks for 2026. Around bonfire night it lists Russell’s circus on Longholme Way and the Bedford 10k and Half Marathon on Sunday 1 November.

Other displays near Bedford

• The Secret Farm, Moggerhanger, Friday 30 October. The one other display inside Bedford borough we could confirm, a week before the Blues. Opens at 5pm, bonfire at 7.30pm, fireworks by Selstar at 8pm, then music from 8.30pm to 10.30pm. Pre-booking is required: £14.50 for anyone 12 and over, £7.50 for ages 3 to 11, under-3s free. Free parking, no dogs except guide and assistance dogs, and tickets cannot be refunded or changed. The farm is on Blunham Road, MK44 3RA (The Secret Farm).
• Ampthill Fireworks, Friday 6 November, Ampthill Great Park. The same night as the Blues. Gates at 6pm, music at 6.30pm, the beacon at 7.30pm and fireworks at 7.45pm, with a fairground and food. Tickets are on sale now, none will be sold on the gate, and parking is £5 cash on the night. The beacon is lit by Ampthill’s Local Hero 2026, chosen from nominations sent to Ampthill Fireplaces on Instagram or Facebook by 10pm on Monday 2 November. Its ticket page lists adults £12.50, children aged 4 to 15 £5, a family ticket £27.50 and under-4s free, but does not say those are 2026 prices (Ampthill Fireworks).
• Shuttleworth Fireworks Night, Saturday 7 November, Old Warden. New for 2026. Gates, funfair, lit hangars and live music from 5pm, fireworks from 7pm to 7.15pm, and a Spitfire engine run at 7.30pm; the event ends at 9pm. £12 adults and £6 children online, £15 and £10 on the gate; fair rides cost extra (Shuttleworth).
• Oakley Sports and Social Club, Church Lane, MK43 7RJ. Listings sites give Saturday 7 November. We could not confirm that from the club itself, so check its own channels before travelling.

What this page will say next

If the club publishes entrances, a gate price or a sell-out notice, it goes here. The page is checked every week until the display.

Checked on 30 September 2026 (Blues and Ampthill pages rechecked 6 October) against bedfordrugby.co.uk, the Blues ticket page, thesecret.farm, ampthillfireworks.co.uk, shuttleworth.org and Bedford Borough Council’s park events calendar.