{"id":2053,"date":"2021-03-01T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.signaturefireworks.co.uk\/?page_id=2053"},"modified":"2021-05-08T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T13:14:22","slug":"graham-wilkinson-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/graham-wilkinson-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Wilkinson – Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Graham is the master of fireworks, racking up nearly 50 years of experience in the firework trade. Graham really has seen and done it all, Competing and dazzling people with displays globally with his wife Kath. Graham has achieved numerous awards from, Vancouver, Belgium, Monaco, and Lithuania and much more.<\/p>

Being on site with Graham is a joy, His sense of humour, commitment and eye for detail is just a pleasure to watch and embrace, for this reason Graham is always the first on the list to help with our larger shows.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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I joined Standard Fireworks straight from school as I had no other plans.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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I once had to remove used cues from a firing system and replace them with new lines whilst perched on a steel girder in the center of Sydney Harbour bridge during the NYE fireworks display.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Seeing 80 red strobe flares all ignite at once over a distance of half a mile round a reservoir way before fancy firing systems came along.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A willingness to get stuck in, keep going and get the job done in a professional manner.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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International Support Graham Wilkinson Graham is the master of fireworks, racking up nearly 50 years of experience in the firework trade. Graham really has seen and done it all, Competing and dazzling people with displays globally with his wife Kath. Graham has achieved numerous awards from, Vancouver, Belgium, Monaco, and Lithuania and much more. Being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2053","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6021,"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}