Camden Fireworks: Coram's Fields Is Free on 5 November

The one public fireworks display we can find inside the London Borough of Camden this year is free. Coram’s Fields in Bloomsbury holds its annual Fireworks Night on Thursday 5 November 2026, which is Bonfire Night itself.

Updated 11 October: Fast-Track and Accessible Viewing tickets are now on sale through Eventbrite. A Fast-Track ticket covers one adult and one child, with add-ons for extra adults and children; it guarantees entry but gives no separate viewing area. Accessible Viewing tickets are free, must be booked in advance, and enter via Guilford Street. Eventbrite’s listing shows prices from free up to £27.80. General entry stays free with no ticket (Coram’s Fields).

Camden Council runs nothing. The only page on camden.gov.uk with the word fireworks in it is a licensing page for shops that want to store and sell them, and the council’s newsroom has published no bonfire event. If you want a big ticketed display you will be leaving the borough, and the section further down covers where.

Coram’s Fields, Thursday 5 November

Every detail here comes from the organiser’s own event page, read on 5 September 2026.

Entry is first come, first served, and Coram’s Fields tells people to arrive as early as they can. Fast-Track tickets are sold separately for families who want to skip the main queue and turn up at any point during the event. They went on sale through Eventbrite in October; see the update above for what they cover.

The rule that catches people out: Coram’s Fields is a children’s park, so adults may only attend when accompanied by a child. That is not a bonfire-night restriction, it is how the park works all year, and it applies at the gate.

An accessible viewing area is provided, with entry to it via Guilford Street. There are food and drink stalls, fairground rides and live stage performances from local children and young people.

Guilford Street closes to traffic

Coram’s Fields says a full pedestrian road closure will be in place on Guilford Street during the event. The organiser has not published the hours it runs, and no closure order for it has appeared on Camden’s street works register yet. If you normally drive along Guilford Street between Russell Square and Gray’s Inn Road on a weekday evening, plan around it.

Russell Square is the nearest tube, about five minutes on foot. King’s Cross St Pancras and Holborn are both walkable.

Do not plan to park

Every public highway in Camden sits inside a controlled parking zone, and the borough has only 2,781 plain pay-for bays that anyone can use, out of 35,421 controlled spaces. The streets around Coram’s Fields are all permit-holder territory in the evening. Our parking page has the tariffs and the zone rules if you have no alternative, but the honest advice for this one is to take the tube.

The nearest big ticketed display

Alexandra Palace, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November. It is in Haringey, not Camden, but it is the closest large display to most of the borough and the one Camden families tend to go to. Alexandra Palace has confirmed a two-day format for 2026: gates open at 4pm both days, tickets start at £11.50, and there is a bonfire, funfair, ice rink and a drone show alongside the fireworks. The Saturday is the late festival night with a headline DJ set; the Sunday is the earlier, family-focused day.

Alexandra Palace publishes its own travel and security advice on the event page, and it is worth reading before a Saturday night: this is a very large crowd arriving at a hilltop park.

Watching for nothing from a hill

Two of London’s best free vantage points are in Camden, and their opening rules matter more than usual in early November.

Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath. The Heath is unenclosed and has no perimeter gates that close, so it stays walkable at night. Golders Hill Park and the Hill Garden and Pergola do close, but Parliament Hill itself does not.

Primrose Hill. The Royal Parks published its 2026 arrangement on 8 April: Primrose Hill closes from 10pm to 6am on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from Friday 3 April until Sunday 8 November, and stays open 24 hours on weekdays. Bonfire Night falls on a Thursday this year, so on 5 November the hill is open all night. On the Alexandra Palace weekend of 7 and 8 November it shuts at 10pm, which is after both displays finish.

One thing to check nearer the time. Last year The Royal Parks closed Primrose Hill at 10pm every night from 31 October to 9 November, and on New Year’s Eve, citing crowd numbers and the loss of the dedicated Royal Parks Police. No equivalent notice has been published for 2026 yet. It would appear on the park’s own page, and we will update this page if it does.

Note that The Regent’s Park is different: its pedestrian gates close at dusk, so the park below the hill is not an evening option.

What is still to be confirmed

• The exact Fast-Track ticket price at Coram’s Fields. Eventbrite’s public listing gives only a range, free to £27.80, and the organiser’s page prints no price; the individual ticket prices show once you start a booking.
• Whether Guilford Street’s closure gets a formal order, and what hours it covers.
• Any 2026 Primrose Hill bonfire-night closure, expected in October if it is repeated.
• Alexandra Palace display times. The venue has published gate times but not the minute the fireworks go up.

We will update this page when each is published. If roads near you are affected, our Camden roadworks and travel page tracks the council’s street works register.

Sources

• Coram’s Fields, Fireworks Night 2026, read 5 September 2026, for the date, all four timings, the free entry and Fast-Track arrangement, the adult-with-child rule, the accessible viewing area and the Guilford Street closure.
• Camden Council, Fireworks and explosives, read 5 September 2026, the council’s only fireworks page, which covers retail storage licences and no public event.
• Alexandra Palace, Fireworks & Drone Festival, read 5 September 2026, for the 7 and 8 November dates, the 4pm gates and the £11.50 starting price.
• The Royal Parks, The Regent’s Park & Primrose Hill, notice dated 8 April 2026, for the weekend 10pm closures to 8 November and the weekday 24-hour opening, and the park FAQs for the dusk closure of the pedestrian gates.
• Hampstead Heath, getting here and around, for the Heath having no gates that close, and the exceptions at Golders Hill Park and the Hill Garden.
• Camden Council annual parking report, for the 2,781 pay-for bays out of 35,421 controlled spaces.

Times and prices were checked on 5 September 2026. Displays get cancelled for weather and for money; confirm with the organiser on the day.