no it was always fireworks as well. I remember as a kid we were allowed to buy them for about a month before bonfire night. we’d make an effigy of guy fawkes and haul it around town asking folks for a “penny for the guy”. the proceeds would be used to by fireworks with. this was in the 70s. I don’t know if it’s still done
It is, but it is becoming much much rarer. The powers that be, for a variety of reasons, want to get rid of Bonfire night/guy fawkes night. Slowly, inexorably, they are doing away with it. At this rate they can safely abolish it in - oh - I’d say about twenty years.