I remember, when the flats were being built on Everton Terrace, seeing workmen with sparklers.
In the evening me and my mates used to play on the site and we found a few of these sparklers where the men had been working and took them home and hid them. At the weekend when my Mam and Dad went out my mates came round and we tried lighting these sparklers on the gas ring. They got so hot we couldn't hold them and they still would not light. Some years later I realised they were welding rods.