Trent Bridge fireworks run 6, 7 and 8 November, adults £10. Cotgrave's display on 1 November is free; Radcliffe is also 1 November and Bingham 7 November.
Rushcliffe Borough Council does not run a bonfire night display. In past years its only fireworks have been a low-noise finale at the West Bridgford Christmas Lights Switch On, and its 2026 announcement for that day mentions an illumination show, not fireworks. So the borough’s bonfire night is whatever the cricket ground, the heritage railway, the town and parish councils, the sports clubs and the pubs decide to put on.
Update, 30 September 2026: Trent Bridge has now announced its 2026 fireworks. For the first time it runs three nights, Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November, with adult tickets at £10. Ruddington, Radcliffe on Trent, Cotgrave and Bingham, below, are the other confirmed displays in the borough.
Updated 16 October: Cotgrave Town Council has announced a free fireworks display on Sunday 1 November at Cotgrave Welfare Field, gates 6pm, display 6.30pm. It is the only free display in the borough that we know of.
Updated 15 October: the Trent Bridge fireworks 2026 nights now have a clash to plan around. Nottingham Forest play Manchester City at the City Ground at 5.30pm on Saturday 7 November, the same evening as the Trent Bridge movie-themed display. How to get there, and which night to pick if you want to avoid the football, is set out below.
Updated 3 October: Radcliffe on Trent (Sunday 1 November) and Bingham (Saturday 7 November) have both put their 2026 displays on sale, and Ruddington’s box office, which showed no tickets in September, is selling again.
Bonfire night 2026 falls on Thursday 5 November, so displays will cluster on Saturday 7 November and the weekend either side.
Confirmed: Ruddington, Saturday 7 November
The Fireworks Extravaganza at the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre, Mere Way, Ruddington Fields, NG11 6JS, is booked for Saturday 7 November 2026.
From Great Central Railway Nottingham’s own event page:
- Gates open 4.30pm.
- Firework display 7.30pm.
- Prices from £6.50.
- Miniature railway rides, a traditional heritage fairground, live music, hot food and a licensed bar.
Tickets are on sale again. On 3 September the box office on TryBooking read “there are no available tickets for this event” and offered only a waitlist. On 3 October the same listing shows a Book Now button and marks tickets as in stock, priced from £6.50 to £29.50. It gives the window as 4.30pm to 9pm and repeats the 7.30pm display time.
Parking is not at the heritage centre. The railway’s page now says parking is in the Vision Express car park (signposted), with limited street parking on Mere Way. There is no parking in the heritage centre car park itself, apart from a small number of disabled spaces on a first-come basis.
Radcliffe on Trent: Sunday 1 November
The Radcliffe Community Firework Fiesta is on Sunday 1 November 2026 at Bingham Road Playing Fields, NG12 2GP, according to its own ticket page:
- Gates 4.30pm, event ends 7.45pm.
- Children’s display 5.30pm, aimed at younger children and anyone sensitive to loud noise. The organisers stress it is quieter, not silent.
- Main display 6.30pm, by Electrify Pyrotechnics.
- Adults (18+) £6.50, ages 4 to 17 £3.50, under-4s free but they still need a ticket for insurance. Blue badge parking is free but limited and must be booked.
- Licensed bar, food, live music from the Pesky Alligators and small fairground rides.
- No animals except assistance animals, no sparklers, and no refund if it is cancelled.
It shares the earliest date in the borough with Cotgrave’s free display, below, a full week before the Trent Bridge and Bingham nights.
Cotgrave: Sunday 1 November, free
Cotgrave Town Council’s Fireworks Display is on Sunday 1 November 2026 at Cotgrave Welfare Field, and it is free. The council’s event poster, published on 1 October, gives:
- Gates open 6pm, display 6.30pm.
- Free entry. No ticket is mentioned.
- No personal fireworks allowed on site.
- Fair rides, food and drink and stalls, provided by Cotgrave Welfare.
The poster gives no finish time and says nothing about parking, so walk in if you can. Radcliffe’s main display is at 6.30pm the same evening, so you cannot do both.
Bingham: Saturday 7 November
Bingham Bonfire and Fireworks Night is on Saturday 7 November 2026 at Bingham Town Sports Club, NG13 8GG, 5.30pm to 9pm. From the club’s ticket page:
| Time | |
|---|---|
| Gates open | 5.30pm |
| Bonfire lit | 6pm |
| First display | 7pm |
| Second display | 8pm |
Prices in advance: adult £5, child £3, family (two adults and two children) £14, under-2s free. On the day it costs more: £6, £4 and £16.
The way in is the industrial estate. Entry is via the station crossing and Moorbridge Road East only; the Moor Lane and St Mary’s Road crossings are closed for the event. On-site parking is for blue badge holders only, with other parking on the industrial estate and in the town centre. No sparklers and no dogs.
Trent Bridge fireworks 2026: dates, times and prices
Trent Bridge put its 2026 fireworks on sale on 25 September 2026, a month later than the late-August announcements of the previous two years, and it has gone from two nights to three. The club’s own fireworks nights 2026 ticket page gives each night a different soundtrack:
| Night | Theme | Gates open | Display |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 6 November | Ibiza Classics | 6pm | 8pm |
| Saturday 7 November | A Night at the Movies | 6.30pm | 8.30pm |
| Sunday 8 November | Family Fireworks | 4pm | 6pm |
Prices, first release: adult £10, under-16 £5, and a family ticket for two adults and two under-16s at £25, the same on all three nights. The club describes these as the first ticket release, so expect later releases to cost more. Buy through tickets.trentbridge.co.uk, linked from the club’s fireworks event page.
Sunday is the one for younger children. It is the earliest display, at 6pm, and the soundtrack is family songs; the club names When You Wish Upon A Star, Hakuna Matata and Let It Go. Friday and Saturday are the later, grown-up nights.
Where you watch from. The ticket pages say the event runs across the TBI Courtyard, the Bridgford Road concourse and seats in the Bridgford Road and William Clarke stands. Gates open two hours before each display so you have time to eat first.
Ticket+ (Friday and Sunday only): £25 adult, £15 under-16, £65 family. It buys the Derek Randall Suite and its viewing balcony, a first drink, a private bar, tea and coffee all evening and reserved seats in the Hound Road Lower Stand, per the club’s Ticket+ announcement of 24 September. There is no Ticket+ on the Saturday.
Food. On 29 September the club named 15 street food traders, among them Smokey Joes BBQ, Bad Boy Wings, Disco Fries, Phata Phata (Indian), Syiok Lah (Malaysian), Big Malakas (Greek), Fat Snags hot dogs and DoughNotts, alongside live DJs. Notts Street Food runs it again, and this year’s presenting partner is Sauce Shop, the West Bridgford sauce maker; in 2023 it was the city business group It’s in Nottingham.
Do not wait. All three previous years sold out: 2024’s two nights had gone by 28 October. The old standing page at trentbridge.co.uk/fireworks-night.html still carries the register-your-interest form but not the 2026 dates, so go to the events page above rather than that one.
Getting to the Trent Bridge fireworks 2026, and the Forest clash
Saturday 7 November is a football night as well. BBC Sport’s Nottingham Forest fixture list has Nottingham Forest v Manchester City at the City Ground, kick-off 5.30pm, a few hundred yards from Trent Bridge across Radcliffe Road. Trent Bridge’s gates open at 6.30pm that night and the display is at 8.30pm, so fireworks crowds will be arriving while the match is on and the football crowd will be leaving around the time the Trent Bridge food stalls are busiest. Premier League kick-off times can still be moved for television, so check again in the week.
Two things follow from that:
- Lady Bay Bridge may be shut. The county’s temporary order lets it close Lady Bay Bridge and Scarrington Road around City Ground events until May 2027, with traffic sent over Trent Bridge instead. Details are on our Lady Bay Bridge matchday closures page.
- Forest’s car park is out of the question. Trent Bridge’s own travel page says the Nottingham Forest car park off Scarrington Road is only available “depending on other events”, and on 7 November there is another event.
If you can choose, Friday 6 November and Sunday 8 November have no City Ground fixture on the same list; Forest’s next game after Manchester City is away at Bournemouth on 21 November.
Getting there without a car. Trent Bridge’s getting here page says:
- Bus: stops on Bridgford Road and Radcliffe Road, served by Nottingham City Transport and by Trent Barton’s Mainline, which it says runs every ten minutes.
- Tram: Queens Walk and Meadows Embankment stops are about a 20-minute walk, the Meadows Embankment route following the river. The free tram park and ride at Clifton South is 17 minutes from Meadows Embankment.
- Train: Nottingham station is about a 20-minute walk, over Trent Bridge itself.
- Taxi: the rank is about 200 yards from the ground on Bridgford Road, beside the Co-op.
Driving. The club publishes no fireworks-night parking. For cricket it points to Bridge Field (NG2 6AP), a few hundred yards away on Bridgford Road, and to paid parking on Victoria Embankment, which can now only be reached from the west, via Queens Drive and Riverside Way (NG2 2GJ), not from the Trent Bridge end.
At the gate. The ground has gates on Bridgford Road, Radcliffe Road, Hound Road and Fox Road, and the fireworks viewing is on the Bridgford Road side. Under the club’s ground regulations every bag can be searched, and you cannot bring in your own fireworks, flares, smoke canisters, glass bottles or jars, or animals other than assistance dogs. Smoking and vaping are confined to designated areas. The ticket office is on 0115 899 0300.
A week earlier: Halloween fireworks at the racecourse
Just across the Trent, Nottingham Racecourse at Colwick Park, NG2 4BE, runs a Halloween Spooktacular with fireworks on Saturday 31 October: gates 4pm, a display of about 15 minutes from 7pm, funfair and food stalls, tickets from £12 and under-5s free, per the racecourse’s own page. More on that night is on our West Bridgford Halloween page.
Trent Bridge: how the last three years went
The biggest fireworks night actually inside West Bridgford is the Notts Street Food fireworks at Trent Bridge cricket ground, NG2 6AG, run with the city centre business group It’s in Nottingham. It has sold out three years running.
- 2023: Saturday 4 November, one night. Gates 4.30pm, display 8.15pm, viewed from the PKF Smith Cooper Stand. £9 adult, £4 under-16, £22 for two adults and two under-16s, per Nottingham City Transport. Sold out.
- 2024: Friday 1 and Saturday 2 November. Gates 6.30pm Friday and 5.30pm Saturday, displays at 8.30pm and 7.30pm, each 15 minutes. Friday was set to a pop playlist, Saturday to a Greatest Showman theme. Both nights sold out by 28 October.
- 2025: Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 November, with a Halloween-themed display on the Saturday. Early-bird tickets went on sale in the week commencing 22 September to people who had registered interest or bought in 2024, before general sale.
The club announced the 2024 and 2025 nights on 25 August 2024 and 24 August 2025. When we first wrote this page on 3 September 2026 nothing had been published for 2026, and the old fireworks page was still showing the 2023 sell-out notice. The 2026 nights came on 25 September, as set out above.
The fireworks do not replace the club’s other winter show: on Saturday 5 December Trent Bridge also hosts Sky Kingdom, a drone light show with no loud bangs.
The other village displays: not yet confirmed for 2026
Radcliffe and Bingham have now confirmed, above. For the rest we could not verify a 2026 date from an organiser’s own page, and we are not going to repeat last year’s dates as though they were this year’s. What ran in 2025, as listed by Off Out Nottingham on 6 October 2025:
- Keyworth Rugby Club fireworks, gates 6.45pm, bonfire 7pm, display 7.30pm.
- The White Horse, Church Street, Ruddington NG11 6HD, Tuesday 4 November, gates 6pm, display between 7pm and 8pm, £10 adult and £5 under-11, with a hotdog or burger included.
- Kinoulton Cricket Club, Hickling Lane NG12 3SE, Friday 7 November, gates 6pm, bonfire from 7pm, £7 adult, £5 under-16, £20 family, cash or card on the gate.
None of those three had a 2026 listing we could find on 3 October 2026. The council and community sites never carried Radcliffe or Bingham either: both are sold only through the organisers’ Ticket Tailor pages, linked above.
Practical points
- Rushcliffe asks for quiet fireworks. The council has used lower-noise effects at its own events since 2021, and formally encourages residents and external event operators to do the same, citing people with sensory processing disorders, PTSD and respiratory conditions, plus pets, livestock and wildlife.
- Arrive at Ruddington nearer the 4.30pm gates than the 7.30pm display. The heritage centre sits at the end of Mere Way in Ruddington Fields Business Park, a single approach road, and its own car park is closed to visitors that night. Questions go to the centre on 0115 940 5705.
- For Trent Bridge, plan not to drive. Our parking in West Bridgford page sets out what the borough car parks cost and how the county’s on-street bays work, which is the difference that catches people out.
- Check the roads first. Anything closed on the night will be on our roadworks and travel page, and Lady Bay Bridge can shut around City Ground events under a separate order.
Where the 2026 announcements will appear
- Trent Bridge: announced 25 September 2026, above. Its fireworks event page lists the full event guide as “coming soon”, and the news feed is where any change of timing or sell-out notice will appear.
- Ruddington: the GCRN events page, already live.
- Radcliffe and Bingham: on sale on Ticket Tailor, above.
- Keyworth, Kinoulton and the White Horse: their own club and pub pages, typically in October.
We will update this page as each one lands.
Frequently asked questions
When are the Trent Bridge fireworks in 2026?
Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2026. Displays are at 8pm on Friday, 8.30pm on Saturday and 6pm on Sunday, and gates open two hours before each one.
How much are Trent Bridge fireworks tickets?
In the first release, £10 for an adult, £5 for an under-16 and £25 for a family of two adults and two under-16s. Ticket+ with lounge access and reserved seats costs £25 adult, £15 under-16 and £65 family, on the Friday and Sunday only.
Which Trent Bridge fireworks night is best for young children?
Sunday 8 November. The display is earliest, at 6pm with gates at 4pm, and it is set to family songs rather than the Friday Ibiza Classics or Saturday movie themes.
Is there a Forest match on the same night as the Trent Bridge fireworks?
Yes, on Saturday 7 November. Nottingham Forest play Manchester City at the City Ground at 5.30pm, so expect heavy traffic and a possible Lady Bay Bridge closure. The Friday and Sunday fireworks nights have no Forest home game.
Where do you park for the Trent Bridge fireworks?
The club has not published fireworks-night parking. Its cricket parking is at Bridge Field on Bridgford Road and on Victoria Embankment, reached from Queens Drive. Buses stop on Bridgford Road and Radcliffe Road, and the Meadows Embankment tram stop is about a 20-minute walk along the river.
When are the Radcliffe and Bingham fireworks in 2026?
Radcliffe on Trent’s Firework Fiesta is on Sunday 1 November, main display 6.30pm. Cotgrave’s free display is the same evening, also at 6.30pm. Bingham’s bonfire and fireworks night is on Saturday 7 November, with displays at 7pm and 8pm.
Is there a free fireworks display in West Bridgford?
Not in West Bridgford itself: Rushcliffe Borough Council does not run a bonfire night display. The nearest free one is Cotgrave Town Council’s display on Sunday 1 November, gates 6pm, display 6.30pm, at Cotgrave Welfare Field. Every other display on this page is ticketed.
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