Article about the fireworks evening - Mona's Herald, Wednesday 14 1880:

DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS. —OU Friday evening last, a novelty was offered in La\ey Park in the shape of a grand pyrotechuieal display got up by Professur Caldwell of Derby Castle, Douglas, in aid of a young miner named Miles who was a few months ago so much iujured by an explosion of dymanite in the Laxev Mines that he has been deprived of his sight "