Firework Ait

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Firework Ait
Waters Thames
Geographical location 51 ° 29 ′  N , 0 ° 37 ′  W Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′  N , 0 ° 37 ′  W
Firework Ait (England)
Firework Ait

Firework Ait is an island in the Thames near Windsor , Berkshire , upstream of Romney Lock .

A report from the 1840s speculates that Percy Bysshe Shelley took his skiff to the island while he was at Eton College in 1805 . The island was then used to fire fireworks .

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Individual evidence

  1. Arthur Duke Coleridge: Eton in the Forties by An Old Colleger. Richard Bentley, London 1896, p. 107, ( online ).