Fireworks Rain Down in Old Town

New Year's Eve fireworks lit up the sky over Bexhill's Old Town. Then a good number of them then fell down into Ronald Winskell's garden - and he compared the experience to being "under siege".

By The Newsroom

Published 2nd Jan 2008, 16:15 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:23 BST

"It was as if I was in a thunder tunnel," he told the Observer.

"One hit the glass dome on the roof in the hall and the cats were terrified. I have never seen them in such a state.

"There were flares and flashes going off all the time - it was as if I was under siege."

On New Year's Day he looked in the garden and found around 14 large rocket sticks embedded in the ground at the back of his house in Church Street, and some stuck in his roof.

He said: "I don't really know where they came from. It was most unusual...it was like being back in the war."

"Some of them were embedded six inches into the ground...they must have been aimed at me. I watched Robin Hood on television, and this made me feel like the Sheriff of Nottingham when he is being attacked."