{"id":3007,"date":"2021-03-08T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.signaturefireworks.co.uk\/?page_id=3007"},"modified":"2021-05-08T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T13:27:23","slug":"martin-darke-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/martin-darke-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Darke – Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Martin has over 25 years\u2019 worth of experience in every aspect within the company. Martin progressed quickly through the various levels at Pyrotex and soon became a Lead Firer. This was not enough for him, so he became more involved in preparing fireworks and helping at the fusing shed and preparing our international shows.<\/p>

Martin is a great person to be on site and is very quick and efficient at what he does. Want something doing quickly, just ask Martin!<\/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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Q&A With Martin<\/h2>\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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Since I lit my first firework at the age of 4 the spark was lit inside me and after doing many garden displays that grew to professional size, I then got offered a job with another pyrotechnics company as an operator.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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I currently run my own pyrotechnics business.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The craziest moment was in July 2007, working on a show when the firing site took a direct lightning strike!<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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I would say my first professional design for a show, that was for the Queens Golden Jubilee. i have also been lucky enough to work with Pirotechnia Caballer on a Valencian Mascleta, Pyrotex Firewox on there international competition show in Poland and finally set a new World Record with Grucci Fireworks.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Heavenly and like walking on air, every day should be a Pyrotex day.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Getting the job done safely and professionally and on time. The true on-site strengths are a team effort where we all bounce positively off each other no matter what challenges are thrown at us.<\/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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SENIOR FIRER Martin Darke Martin has over 25 years\u2019 worth of experience in every aspect within the company. Martin progressed quickly through the various levels at Pyrotex and soon became a Lead Firer. This was not enough for him, so he became more involved in preparing fireworks and helping at the fusing shed and preparing […]<\/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-3007","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3007","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=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6048,"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3007\/revisions\/6048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/signaturefireworks.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}