the fifth of november...
I spent a year living in Lewes, just down the hill from the castle and jousting field shown at the start of the video. In fact, my bedroom window looked out over the exact spot where Virginia Woolf committed suicide, or so we were told - the location does not exactly match what wikipedia claims.
One of the few times in my life where I have been frightened was when we went to bonfire night that year and got swept up in the crowd.
Gave me an uncomfortable hint of what a mob might become if roused.
Peoples' memories are long and sharp, though I expect a lot of them were on automatic and knew little of what they were commemorating.
Spectacular fireworks though.
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I'm actually currently out in the Surrey countryside. We just tried to go see the Guy Fawkes Day festivities only to find out they actually happened last Saturday. :-(
but is it raining?
you could catch a quick train to London and down to Lewes via Brighton
might still make it - unless Lewes also succumbed to Hallowe'enization and moved
the parade to a weekend. pah.
Plenty of Guy Fawkes stuff happening around Surrey this weekend, too.
Tanked down here in Yorkshire, making fireworks go phut and bonfires to sizzle. Of course, Guy Fawkes was a Yorkshireman and the monasteries - and wider communities - of the devout North sufferend terribly from the reformation, so we do not celebrate his burning over much.
The only man to enter Parliament with honest intentions, they do say.
Lewes always happens on the 5th.