Hi RUclips family! We certainly learned a lot here! Definitely some disturbing facts! 😳 But nonetheless a very riveting piece of history We were unaware of. We hope you enjoy it!
Halloween and Bonfire Night are often kind of lumped together. Traditionally in the days leading up to November 5th kids would make a "Guy", which is a straw-filled effigy of Guy Fawkes, put it in a wheelbarrow or stroller, or on a home-made cart, and go door-to-door with the request "Penny For The Guy?" And people would give them some coins as a reward for making a good effigy. Sadly this doesn't happen anywhere near as much these days as it did when I was a kid in the 1970s! Nowadays very few people have a bonfire of their own, but instead attend a large one organised by the local council, usually on the weekend nearest the 5th, with a big firework display. Foods we eat around this time (traditionally) are toffee apples, cinder toffee (honeycomb), treacle toffee, hot dogs (with proper British sausages, not the hot dogs you have in the US!), Parkin Cake (look it up), and marshmallows toasted on the bonfire.
When I was a kid, it seemed as if most families would have a bonfire party in the back yard, or go to a friends, as the big public displays weren't as common... We'd have saved up scrap wood and fallen leaves and burnable refuse, old cardboard boxes etc., for the bonfire, our parents would have purchased copious amounts of rockets and firecrackers, and 'sparklers' (length of steel wire half of which was coated with an incendiary compound that sparkled when burning) for the kids to wave, and there would be sausage rolls and baked potatoes (hard core was baking your potatoes wrapped in tinfoil, IN the edges of the bonfire), and candy. Kids also made an effigy out of old clothes, and would do the "penny for the guy" begging routine to raise money for firecrackers and candy. On Bonfire Night, there would be a constant fusillade of bangs and shrieks, so it sounded like the Somme in 1916, and the air would smell of sulphur. Since then, concerns about 'safety' and 'terrorism' have severely curtailed Bonfire Night celebrations.
The fog the night after is fantastic too! We used to play hide and seek the following night in the local park, big open space but you couldn't see more than 5 foot in front of you cos the fog was so thick.
A lot of people actually don't celebrate it. It's awful for pet owners because animals are petrified by it, and people with certain conditions/health problems. It's mostly a family event if anything.
Bonfire night is certainly far more of an occasion in Britain than Halloween is, and it's celebrated separately. It's also very nostalgic for many Britons, it takes us back to our childhood when we would be allowed to stay up late and gather around a huge bonfire and watch the fireworks display. It's a very unique holiday that can't really be compared to any other.
Hey Ladies Good to see you back again. No November 5th isn't a holiday, more a traditional. Bonfires and fireworks happen around the 5th with some towns and cities having their bonfire night on the nearest weekend. Still a big thing here! Some bonfire nights near me in London get attended by 10000s of people. All for a couple of minutes of fireworks!
As a child Guy Fawkes or Bonfire night was a marker in the year that meant it wasn't long till Christmas. Always gives me a fuzzy feeling. However now, it just means I have a house of stressed cat's with all the fireworks outside ☹️
Same, my poor cat gets terrified. There was a petition going around last year for licenced events on the 5th only and to ban individual sales of fireworks 👍
@@bethwilliams5579 I had a westie dog that was deaf and she loved bonfire night so much,the people next door always had a bonfire and fireworks for their kids and she was so taken with watching them that she got invited over
Just in case no one has mentioned, although I'm sure someone likely has, Bonfire night, or Guy Fawkes Night is observed in Newfoundland Canada as well. Newfoundland didn't join Canada as a province until 1949 and was an independent dominion still connected to Great Britain up until that point, hence still commemorating a predominantly British historical event
This is completely separate to Halloween. This is really only an evening for the youngsters nowadays. In the run up to 5th of November some children make Guy effigies and ask "Penny for the Guy" from adults and get some money that way. Usually there are organised Firework displays and a large bonfire with said Guy effigy on top. Lots of families , especially if they have young children have their own firework parties and let off fireworks and have a smaller bonfire in their garden. Food wise it tends to be baked potatoes in their jackets and sausages. We don't have smores. Many people have their favourite fireworks such as Rockets, Catherine wheels etc but most children, at least when I was young, got really excited because of Sparklers which is a hand held metal rod about 12" long that was coated with something for about 4" with some chemical which when lit sets of loads of sparks, hence the name) and children would hold these and wave them around to make patterns. Needless to say there are a lot of accidents that night. There is no day long celebrations or time off work and most often the Bonfire Parties are actually on the nearest weekend to the 5th, but it is still something to enjoy in November.
As teenagers armed with axes and bowsaws we'd venture into the woods behind our council housing estate and fell sycamore, silver birch and oak trees. Debranched, cut to 20 foot lengths and hauled back on our ten-man-gangs shoulders with the smaller kids bringing the branches. Probably 50 or 60 neighbours would come together on the night and our bonfires were so solid they would still be burning a couple of days later. It took a couple of weeks from finding the big centre pole to finally cramming all the kindling in on the 5th of November, lookouts checking that the rival gangs from the next estate weren't stealing logs or setting it alight. We dug holes and put broken bottles in or pieces of wood with 6 inch nails protruding and covered them to deter their night time raids. It was gang warfare during this period with the railway line as the boundary, using catapults, throwing arrows and the occasional airgun but mostly just running battles which all came to an abrupt end when one of my friends was knocked out by a large projectile to the head which resulted in a a nasty wound. Remember there were no mobile phones in those days, we managed to revive him and get him home and his mum and dad took him into their three wheeled Robin Reliant to the hospital in the city. After that his mum started a one woman campaign that virtually killed off all that stuff, though she was helped by the woods being cleared for a small new housing Many an effigy of Guy Fawkes was sat outside peoples gates with either youngsters or a scribbled note asking, "Penny for the Guy ?", which was to buy fireworks for 5th November. All the kids came to the bonfire with whatever fireworks they had in an old biscuit tin to prevent accidents. The most feared firework on those (fairly well managed) nights was the Helicopter, we all had to move right to one side for that one as it would fly in such a haphazard circular action that it was later banned.
I used to do that then have to ask an adult to buy us fireworks then the hooliganism began lol Best for Penny for the Guy was the Off Licence or Ciggy Shop.
@@lotuselise4432 Off Licence or as called round these parts; the beer off, though pronounced bare-off ! *Off licenses* were like a convenience store that was allowed to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption off those premises, normally ones home. They normally only opened at lunch and in the evening following the local licensing laws we used to have for pubs.
When I was younger, everyone had bonfires in the backyards to celebrate Bonfire Night/Guys Fawkes Night. It is also something that is taught in Schools, if you are British you know of the story from a young age.
Bondfire night used to be celebrated in Australia, but it is at the start of their summer, and in the late 20th century it was deemed too much of a fire hazard. However New Zealand still has official firework displays on 5th of November (pandemic permitting) and many unofficial displays.
Two traditional foods that we always associate with Nov 5th are treacle toffee ( a brittle toffee made with black treacle in a tray) and Parkin (a kind of ginger cake - also with treacle). These days, due to safety concerns most families tend to go to organised events. When growing up in the 60s, everyone had a bonfire in their own gardens(back yard). We would watch other peoples from our bedroom windows first, then go outside to set of our own fireworks. The fireworks were fairly tame things, just as well as most of our gardens are quite small. We did however have 'bangers' and ' rik-raks' which some 'naughty' kids would hurl at others feet. It does not go on for days, its mostly an evening event. If it falls on a weekday, their tends to be weekend events as well so you can go to several of them. A lot of the history seems forgotten and its just a chance to see fireworks and bonfires. Halloween is a completely different thing. Halloween barely got a mention when I was growing up.
As everyone has probably mentioned. Bonfire night is not a holiday. No one has time off for it. But it is a good way of marking the long nights and how it's not long till Christmas and Longest Night. As a kid we would watch the fireworks, eat baked potatoes from the bonfire and have toffee apples (my dentist would hate me eating those now)
I'm from Scotland. Where I'm from the big event would take place on the closest Saturday to the 5th. The pipe band would play leading up to it as well as people walking about selling glow sticks and sparklers. Then the bonfire would be lit and the bit that everyone wanted to see was the fireworks. As I'm from an island many people would hold their own parties and do their own fire and fireworks. As most traditions in this country its an excuse to have a good drink. 😂
I always remember on bonfire night my dad making treacle toffee, my mum making pea and ham soup, wrapping potatoes in foil and putting them in the bonfire to make jacket potatoes
As a kid of the 80s what we'd do is get some of our father's old clothes and stuff them with newspaper tying the ends and make a fake head, and you'd take it down the local shops and sit outside and say "penny for the guy" to passers-by and they'd give you any loose change, then we'd buy some sweets, and you'd keep hold of the guy Fawke and stick it on the bonfire in our back garden on the 5th November, we'd usually spend weeks finding bits of wood before hand and we'd generally eat burgers, hotdogs and baked potatoes and hold sparklers, and you'd make patterns in the air with the sparklers. Sparklers are like a handheld firework for children that creates sparks, and yep they are dangerous. Lots of nostalgia for that time. These days it's just about the fireworks and most families just visit public firework displays, alot of stores don't sell them so much and they aren't as loud as they use to be. It feels like people who do buy them are usually tend to be for misuse
i used to love it as a kid going around the neighborhood asking people for old wood,we called it chomping im interested to know did you have a word for it.
Also an 80s kid, but we only bothered with Guy Fawkes Night if it happened to fall on a weekend. Bonfire, barbeque, and some shitty fireworks from the corner shop. I made a Guy once, but because it was made of old clothes and newspapers, it burnt away disappointingly quickly.
It was 400 years ago and is celebrated all across the UK. There are lots of organised firework displays but lots of people have their own small fireworks at home in gardens. It is usually on the nearest evening to the 5th and is not an all day party. We personally don’t bother anymore as we don’t have small children but you can usually watch fireworks from home. As children we would make our own Guy from old clothes stuffed with padding… great fun! Love your videos!
We also celebrated Guy Fawkes night here in Australia when I was a child. These days it’s banned due to fire risk -although I can’t recall any fire happening from the 5th November Bon Fires
We celebrated it in Australia to I remember all of us kids building the bonfire for a week before Guy Fawkes night all the neighborhood would gather to watch it go up in flames and set off fireworks after we would through potatoes in the embers and eat them when cooked with butter it was a big deal and bought the neighborhood together peace out.
You're doing a great job. I'm working my way through all your videos. Liked and subscribed. I always looked forward to Bonfire Night and the fireworks as a child, but they weren't anywhere near as powerful as they are now, or loud. Now for a few days before 5th November I have to have the curtains closed from early evening onwards and the TV turned up loud just in case my dog hears a firework being let off, or she goes to pieces and wets herself. It's distressing for her and upsetting for me to see her like that. It's unbelievable that fireworks (some of them are more like mortar shells) can be bought over the counter here in the UK.
Part of the fun, as the nights draw in and winter sets, is wrapping up really warm, stuffing your face with burgers and bangers. Also the smell of burning wood and fireworks.
Pie and mushy peas are still my favourite, especially steak and kidney pies. My mother once tried to make bonfire toffee but didn't cook it right and ended up with fudge! Needless to say we scoffed the lot!
When I was a wee bairn, between the ages of 5 and 10, my parents held a Bonfire Night party (of sorts) for the family and friends. Usually there was a bonfire that we kids were told to stay away from while waiting for the fireworks to start. My father was usually the designated person who set off the fireworks and these came in something called a "selection box". Basically it was a box FULL of these explosive treats, including rockets, a Catherine wheel, sparklers and a shed load more whos names I can't remember any more. Lol Anyway, after the fireworks finished the adults would usually go indoors and us kids would watch the bonfire slowly start to burn down although some people would keep feeding the fire all night long. After an hour or so my mother would come back to the fire with tin foil wrapped potatoes which we would throw into the embers to cook. When they were ready (about 40 minutes later), we would fish the silvery packages out of the fire with sticks and after cautiously opening the foil, as it was always hot, we'd eat the potatoes, skins and all. Eventually we started adding things to the potatoes like beans, coronation chicken, cheese and a load of other foods. It was always a treat and always delicious. Nowadays I don't celebrate Halloween or Bonfire Night as I'm a bit long in the tooth for it and I have a pet cat who is so scared of the fireworks that people set off a week before Halloween and for a week after the 5th of November and then again on Christmas Eve and every day right up until New Year's Day and often beyond.
Hi, I'm 66 and as a child we used to build a "guy" out of old clothes and stand outside shops with the guy in a pram. We would ask everyone for "a penny for the guy". On 5th of November all the neighbours would build a huge bonfire and all the guys were thrown on it. We all then had fireworks. These days the Gun Powder Plot seems to be a lot less important and its just really about have big firework displays. Also it is certainly celebrated here in Scotland. Loving your channel 😊
Hey Jenny. We used to do the same, I`m 62 and we always looked forward to Bomie Night. We used to stuff the guy with old News Papers. Where I lived, in Liverpool, there were loads of old houses, that were being Demolished ( slum Clearence from the war ) so Firewood was always in good supply. The various streets would Guard their Bonfire Wood with a passion and we would mount regular raids on Neighbouring streets, to steal their Firewood. Happy Days 😜👍😊.
Hi Stephen, From what I remember there was a fair bit of "pinching" of firewood haha. Luckily we had a huge green area at the end of our street so I think all the surrounding streets contributed to the huge bonfire!
@@jennywaters5016 Ha ha, you`re right Jenny, pinching the opposition`s wood was like mounting a Commando Raid, sometimes we would try and set each others wood pile on fire. Happy Days 😊.
@@stephensmith4480 I seem to remember that one year a rival gang set fire to our bonfire on the night before ( the 4th, 'mischief night') but we were a resilient lot and next day had a bonfire bigger than ever, most of the big stuff we'd stored on our shed roofs!
@@woodentie8815 I know, It was amazing now I think about it. The same if any wood got stolen by a rival gang, especially the good stuff, like old doors and pallets. Everyone would rally round, it was like a military operation and you would Always come up trumps with more wood. Where I lived in the Tenement Blocks, there were two fires, one each end and they always seemed Huge, I lived on the fourth landing and when I was very young, I could only go to the fire with my Mum or Dad, or if it was Raining, which it often was, watch from above. We always had a box of Fireworks that were set off at the end of the landing, it seemed like the whole community was involved and the atmosphere was awesome. Unfortunately, you seldom get that community spirit today 😊👍.
Hey Natasha and Debbie 👋 ! I personally really liked that drama the narrator talked about if you’re able to get a hold of it, it’s called Gunpowder and it aired in 2017 on BBC1 over here (I dunno about you over in the US but here in the UK I can now get it on Apple TV). It’s a 3-part mini-series, and like the narrator said, Kit Harrington stars as his ancestor Robert Catesby (which, like other commenters have said, is pronounced CATE-sbee not CAT-sbee). Hope this helps 😁😁
Bonfire night is a totally different thing than Halloween, when our kid's were younger, we took them to displays at our local park, there was a funfair, hotdogs,burgers,jacket potatoes etc, the Bonfire was probably was 20 feet +,and loads of fireworks, and a good time was had by all.x
I live near the houses that were used by Guy Fawkes and the Plotters to plan the the destruction of parliament - these are in Worcestershire and Warwickshire. A lot of the houses contain priest holes where catholic priests would hide. The priest holes were built by a chap called Nicholas Owen who died on the rack without revealing the location of any of them. He died after the plotters were executed - he was friendly with them. There is a BBC drama about the plot called Gunpowder which was well acted and gory in parts. As kids, we would get old clothes and stuff them with straw and sit on the pavement (sidewalk) and shout Penny for the Guy to get money to buy fireworks and we would burn the guy on the bonfire. There is a channel called The Untold Past where they discuss the execution if Guy Fawkes. The whole of Britain celebrates Bonfire Night, we don't have Smores, it is seperate to Halloween.
Glad you enjoyed learning about UK history/tradition. We were cruel sods, weren’t we!!😱. Some great comments here already. And you don’t look older than (almost) 40, Natasha! You’re still a young’un!! Btw.. you are correctly pronouncing Guy’s surname the British way with the ‘Orr’ sound. The narrator sounds like he’s saying Fox! Here in Yorkshire, bonfire night food includes baked (jacket) potatoes, hot pork pie and mushy peas and for afters, Parkin, which is a dark ginger/oatmeal loaf cake. Yum!
The narrator also mispronounces Catesby - it’s not Cats by. It’s Kates by. It REALLY grates all through the video. Glad to see you delving into our history.
I live in a small village in the north of England , we celebrate bonfire night very traditionally with treacle toffee, toffee apples, hot chestnuts and parkin which is a ginger flavoured slab cake. We drink cider or mulled wine at a well organised and safe bonfire and firework display with no noisy bangs to scare the wildlife halfway to death.
Bonfire night is usually cold & the town has this smokey haze & its smells of burning. Love the whole feel of it! People either do their own or go to a big town display. We don't have smores here but people will do jacket potatoes, soup, burgers, hotdogs that type of thing. Down side is fireworks going off for weeks & I have to keep the cats in - so it's not pet friendly at all. I'd be happy with just the fire (although you've got to be careful of hedgehogs if build the bonfire over a few weeks) food & sparklers tbh. While it originated due to a foiled attempt to blow up government, if the house benches were wired & they got a sharp shock through the arse cheeks everytime they lied, I wouldn't be totally against it 🤣🤣
hey, loving the channel, as to what I do on Fireworks Night (common name at least where I am), I tend to hide away from the fireworks as im terrified of them :D, but yeah, not uncommon to see fairs, huge communal bonfires, basically its a good reason to meet up with friends and have some fun.
The largest celebration of 'Bonfire Night;, or Guy Fawkes Night, is held in the town of Lewes, in Sussex (a county south of London, beside the English Channel). Over the years it has picked up other bits of English history, including a couple of revolutions and battles. A video is at ruclips.net/video/YFW2llTndrQ/видео.html Enjoy!
Bonfire night is definitely NOT a holiday. The effigy although often referred to as a "guy" originally was to represent the Pope as the gunpowder plot was a considered a Papist conspiracy.
The 5 November is not a UK holiday. 'Penny for the Guy' used to be said by children who had made a Guy effigy and took it with t6hem in the street to ask passers by for money. Money received would be spent on fireworks. This practise mostly faded out about 40 years ago.
@@matthewhale2464 This may be regional. I've not seen it in decades. That covers where I've lived in Leicestershire, Northants and Beds. The last time I remember penny for the guy was in Norfolk and was about 40 years ago as well.
We don't really do holidays in the same way as you guys tbh, it's more laid back than you're thinking. Basically there will be local fireworks displays, usually there will also be a bonfire. There will be some food stands (you need to check out treacle toffee btw) and we all stand about and mainly discuss how it was better last year and wave sparklers. Often it rains. Quite a few people don't really know the history of it now and it's just a fun thing they do with the kids.
Traditional Bonfire Night food includes Parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee. In my area Lancashire hot pot with pickled cabbage is another favorite. A very important tradition is to build the biggest bonfire you can and stand around it drinking far too much beer :-)
As a child, I actually thought that Guy Fawkes was being placed on top of a bonfire because we were celebrating him almost getting rid of the King and parliament 🤷♀️ I guess that says a lot about how I felt about people in power back then…or how I wasn’t paying attention to every detail and felt so sorry for Guy, being brutally tortured 👀 We had to draw cartoons of that in History class at age 12 😳 I’m one of those boring people who’s not a big fan of fireworks 🎆 ( the sound of them…they’re pretty to look at in the sky ) so I’m afraid that I don’t do anything on the 5th of November 👀 Another great video Natasha and Debbie 👍🙂
During the State Opening of Parliament, which is the only time both houses of Parliament and the monarch is in the same place one MP is taken hostage and kept under guard as sureity to the safe return of the monarch. The first action od the State opening is still the ceremonial searching of the cellars by the yeomen of the guard, The monarchs official bodyguard since at least the 1400s.
@@emdiar6588 . He was indeed. He created this fantastic chart/ street map of London marking all the cases of cholera in 1850 something. He then deduced that it was as a result of one street water pump. What a fantastic piece of detective work. Up until then it was thought to have been carried from the foul air from the Thames.
'Bonfire night' used to be a great event when I was a kid; about the only time you would see fireworks. As I got older I started doing small firework displays for family and friends in our back gardens - always with food and drink around as it was a party.
I am 70 now but when I was a child we would create a “Guy” by stuffing old clothes and putting on a mask and hat and put it in an old pram and wheel it down to local shops where we would shout”Penny for the Guy” and passers by would give us money with which we would but fireworks for Bonfire Night. Doesn’t happen today but people still celebrate the day with either public or private bonfires and lots of fireworks.
Every year my dad's oldest clothes were stuffed with straw and a mask added to a stuffed nylon stocking for the head. IT reminds me of a cartoon I saw once of some children coming indoors after the celebration to see the guy still sitting on the kitchen chair and shouting excitedly "that was a great guy we burnt this year, wasn't it dad? ....dad? dad?"
As another has said, the main event was the bonfire and fireworks. The food was treacle toffee, parkin cake and also baked potatoes. We didn't use foil to wrap them in back then, just put them in the embers near the edge of the fire for 30 minutes or so.
24:45 Halloween, prior to the last 20-30 years wasn't celebrated much in UK, but it's grown to the present time to be a long week of nightly fireworks, bonfires, outdoor parties, etc.
I am in my 50's my brother 60 and we always had big local bonfires doing penny for the guy, toffee apples, toffee lollies and jacket tatties in the early 70's continued. Maybe it was just more popular further up north. I live in Durham
When we were kids in the 60s and 70s every street had there own bonfire party. Kids used to build the bonfires on the weeks leading up to the event and used to steal from other bonfires to try and make the biggest and best. Everyone took their fireworks to the bonfire to let off. Even one called jumping jack which you had to run if they came towards you. Very dangerous and were eventually banned. My husbands mother and her friend made toffee apples for all the children of the estate. Very fond memories of these times. It wasn't a holiday, just a celebration on the evening of Nov 5th. Now though it is more an organised event, usually one or two large events held in each big town.
That's when kids could be kids. Halloween was just a hollowed out turnip with a candle in it. These days commercial Americanisms are wiping out our ancient traditions. Trick or Treat is just thuggery. 7 teenage lads threatening a single woman in her own home is not acceptable.
hi... cool video!... thought I could chime in as a Sussex, UK born fella... we grew up with 5th Nov as quite a big part of our lives and defo a date in the diary!... As kids in 70's / 80's Guy Faulkes night would mean... being taken into the town to watch night-time processions of torch-lit bands / burning barrels, and of course a big bonfire and fireworks! (either at public event or back at home with the neighbours)... Halloween wasn't a 'thing' for us back then so GUY Faulkes night was THE date in the diary before Christmas... 'Penny-for-the-guy' was a way for us to make a few 'pennies' by making a 'Guy'... (stuffing newspaper into a 'man-shaped' effigy - a pair of old trousers, sweater and a crudely made head) we would then take this 'guy' around asking for a 'penny-for-the-guy'... he would then find himself plopped on the fire!... for a better idea of what goes on watch this vid!: ruclips.net/video/Fcecvnlgu8E/видео.html enjoy! ;-)
Guy Fawkes was the only man to enter parliament with honest intentions!! Great video. Nice to see our American cousins enjoying learning about our history and traditions. I personally love Guy Fawkes night (bonfire).
The honest intentions bit always annoys me lol.. I admit He was honest about the plot when he was caught, But i can't really consider a Religiously extremist motivated terrorist plot, conducted by skulking around in the shadows with the intention of murdering lots of people with no warning, not to mention anyone with the bad luck to be anywhere near the parliament building if had of worked.. all in order to put themselves in power. Nope can't really consider that anything other than horrific..
11:11 Yes, someone actually recreated the "chamber" in a deserted part of the country and exploded a similar amount of gunpowder, with spectacular results.
Yup, Richard Hammond. Built a full size representation of the original House structure at the Spadedam military area up north. Prepared the equivalent amount of explosive and it did go with a heck of a bang. Not a lot left, lol.
As a kid growing up in the UK, Guy Fawkes Night was always a big deal. A penny for the guy, fireworks, bonfires and hanging out with friends and family.
"penny for the guy" though I am sure it's a lot more now if children still do that. I remember seeing children with an old make shift cart with their guy going around asking for a penny for the guy. The guy would then be burnt on the top of the bonfire. It's mostly large public fireworks these days but as children my brother and I would sit in an upstairs window watching the fireworks waiting for our dad to come home so we could have our own display. We were always allowed to choose one firework, my choice was the largest Catherine wheel that was in budget and my brother's was the biggest rocket. Lots of sparklers. Jacket potatoes that were baked in the bonfire and hot chocolate.
One of the best celebrations is in Battle, East Sussex, the place of the battle of Hastings (1066), Check out Battel Bonfire Boyes. The celebrations take place in front of the abbey in Battle. There are themed enormous effigies crammed full of fireworks, burning tar carried through the streets, people dressed in mediaeval dress carrying flaming torches, a huge bonfire and so on. When the "explosive" fireworks are detonated you can feel the concussive waves in the air. Pretty amazing. The effigies (huge things) are also themed to the big news stories of the year. For example when I have been there there were Sadaam Hussein (just after the Gulf War) , A Jurassic dinosaur (when the first film of the series was released) and a loving cup featuring Charles and Diana (the year of a royal wedding).
We don't have smores, usually bonfire night is when idiots get maimed by holding dodgy Chinese fireworks in their hands, which are sold year round. There are usually locally held 'displays' which are marshalled and pretty safe. Here in Cardiff, Wales there is always a massive display behind the castle - I know this sounds Harry Potterish - but look it up , we have a giant bloody castle in our city centre, although weirdly we tend to ignore or not register - American friends coming over have gone batshit crazy about it, but it doesn't register when I walk past it on a commute. Love from Wales xxx
That is something of a kickback against the noise of fireworks and the affect on pets and wild animals prompting some supermarkets to sell silent fireworks and in one case stop selling them completely
The methods of execution were horrific in those days partly because of the religious fervour meaning the convicted were devout and truly believed they would be ascending to a better place after death. Therfore the theory was that if tcould not be made to fear death as a punishment they must be made to fear the method of their dying
The Catholic rulers also had 'inventive' executions. It's amazing what good people will do when they feel they have a god on their side (pararphrasing Christopher Hitchens).
When I was a kid, I would always have a bag of warmed up mini doughnuts that were coated in sugar when I went to a fireworks display for Bonfire Night.
As much as us brits like to think we're really stoic and not sensitive, we are. Plenty of people here will take offence to absolutely anything on youtube, from a mispronunciation to a 'unperceived' ignorance. But ultimately, they are the minority(!) So KEEP EM COMIN! Love the content
I really enjoy watching you two presenting these videos, you have a gift for this. And happy anniversary! If you every find your way to London I recommend The London Dungeon. It's a museum/attraction based on London's dark past and includes details about medieval tortures that were used and you can even walk round a reconstruction of Jack the Ripper's London... grim!
I had to laugh when you said remember, remember the twelfth of november as i used to say that to my parents when i was younger as it is also my birthday.
I remember going to Bonfire Night in Lewis, on the south coast. A figure of the Pope was paraded through the town instead of Guy Fawkes with the crowd chanting "Burn the Pope". The figure was then burnt on a bonfire.
my dad's birthday falls on that night so as kids (im in my 40's now) we'd all go to my grandpas house where they'd have a huge bonfire, a few fireworks, and granny would cook jacket potatoes (baked potatoes) Hotdogs, burgers (it's quite an odd phenomenon the brits love a good BBQ for 2 weeks of the year in the summer and also the 5th of November.) and sometimes chilli and we wrap up warm and wave sparklers about. There would be sometimes as many as 15 or so of us. Three generations joining in celebrations ending in a birthday cake for my dad of course. Sometimes we'd indulge in an organised display. Cambridge has a lovely one that is all singing all dancing, it's a light show and firework display with music, of course london has a huge one too, Not too expensive a night however food was always more expensive at the these things, so we'd usually eat at home. But probably my favourite way to celebrate when money was a bit tighter, was to bundle into the car with my parents and sister, we'd have a massive bag of chips (steakfries not those thin things you guys call fries) and we'd drive a couple miles out of town and just sit in the middle of the cambridgeshire fen and watch the fireworks from all of the surrounding villages on the side of the road, my sister an i sandwhiched between our mum and dad tucking into these chips. Away from the noise and just enjoy the scenery. It was quite something. good times, good memories.
We used to be taught about Guy Fawkes from a really young age at school. We used old clothes to make a man and then go round asking "penny for a Guy" and people would give us pennies!! Then poor old Guy got chucked on the bonfire lol. I miss how bonfire night used to be. Now it's just a chaotic mess and hooligans throwing fire works 😩. Kids don't even know who Guy Fawkes was or much about him anyway.
Another great reaction from you both. Wild fire is what you were thinking of. I'm a game of thrones fan as well. I love a good history documentary, always learning new stuff. We don't have bonfire night as a holiday in the UK. Years ago people used to build guy faulks in old clothes and straw ready for bonfire night to display on top of the fire. We eat hot mushy peas with mint sauce, and hot dogs. Every year there are fireworks displays up and down the country. And some people have fireworks in the garden. Thanks again to you both.
I'm from a little town called Lewes. We have the BEST bonfire celebrations in the whole of the UK. We're famous for it. Try Lewes bonfire in a search. Becki. X
I have heard of this "holiday" & I remember it mentioned in our world history book in high school. But only mentioned as a plot to kill the king & government---didn't explain WHY that I remember. I am fascinated by history so enjoyed learning reasons behind plot etc. But found the torture details sickening & disturbing and wish that had been left out. I wish the king had decreed that they would be executed but NOT tortured in any way. Great show as always, Natasha & Debbie. I have learned so much through your videos!! Educational AND fun!!
We have a newer saying based on this event now. "Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter Parliment with honest intentions." Which is why the event in modern Britian isn't so much about the saving of the Crown King anymore, but more a celebration of the bravery of Guy Fawkes. Due to how corrupt and self severing politicians have become, sometimes you'll hear British people exclaim "Where is Guy Fawkes when you need him?". Great reaction video, thanks for making it.
Halloween definitely wasn't as big a thing here in the UK when I was growing up, 80s/90s, and we did more traditional things around 5th Nov. A big bonfire, toasting marshmallows (never heard of smores back then either), cooking baked potatoes, making and burning a guy and letting off a few fireworks...there was usually a larger display arranged by the local football club which we always went to watch too. A nearby town, Lewes East Sussex, has a massive parade (pre covid anyway) and burns a huge effigy...here's a vid from 2019's offering ruclips.net/video/Fcecvnlgu8E/видео.html
Idk where u got that information from or where you lived in the uk. But you do know Halloween originated in the uk. More specifically Scotland. Its Gaelic holiday 🙂👍
@@Believer3_ I live in the South of England an am well versed on the origins of Halloween, but the celebration of it historically and what became the commercialised version (as common in the USA) definitely were not celebrated much at all in my neck of the woods when i was a kid nor in my parents generation.... Certainly not the aspect of dressing up and knocking on strangers doors to ask for sweets. It just wasn't a thing. but I guess that is why the UK is such a hotch potch of vastly different communities each doing their own thing around certain traditions 😉
@@Believer3_idk where you got that information from, but whilst Halloween may have originated here its never been as big a celebration as Bonfire night. At least not in the last 400 years.
Mary Queen of Scots nine days old ! Obviously, a six-day-old baby wasn't running things: Mary's mother took the reins while her daughter grew up in France. But when 18-year-old Mary eventually did rule Scotland on her own, things got dicey: She married the man suspected of murdering her husband and was deposed. She fled to England, where she hoped she'd be protected by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. But Elizabeth kept Mary in captivity for the next 18 years. Mary was eventually implicated in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth, and she was executed in 1587, at age 44.
It’s useful to look at this in the wider political situation in Europe, after Elizabeth I had Mary Queen of Scots (James VI of Scotland and I of England’s mother) executed the Pope stated that any Catholic who killed Elizabeth would have a free pass to heaven. Spain under Philip II had tried to invade England to return it to Catholiscm, while English troops had been fighting in the Netherlands against the Spanish to help the (mainly Protestant) freedom movement. When James came to the throne in 1602 there was still a strong suspicion and fear of a Catholic uprising. Throughout Europe Protestant states and Catholic states were jockeying for power, the Reformation was in its final throes, but there was huge suspicion and fear of Protestants by Catholics and vice versa.
Food wise anything hot, but mostly sausages (also know as banger's), burgers, jacket potatos with chilli, or bowls of chilli, cups of soup, hot chocolate, anything to keep you warm as November is cold and the event starts when it is dark, to enjoy the fireworks
So this was around 1606, this event possibly might have changed the future of the US. So if Guy had been successful bringing Britain back into the fold of Catholicism maybe the Spanish wouldn't have been our enemies and so maybe they wouldn't have played such a significant role in aiding the US in gaining independence. Especially as Guy was a mercenary who once worked for Spain. They would probably have liked Guy and his new government. But that's all just speculation of course. But interesting to think about.
Hi girls Debbie from Wales here. You are quite right it is not a holiday but we do celebrate in the evening by lighting bonfires, and burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes on top of the bonfire and then setting of fireworks.
No its not a holiday just a celebration to remind politicians and authorities that they work for and answer to us...not the other way around. They seem to have forgotten that these days. Maybe we need another Guy Fawkes.
When I was little we didn’t really do much for Halloween. Bonfire Night was our big thing. My cousins and I would build a big bonfire in the garden and make a “Guy” to go on top and take him around to collect a “Penny for the Guy”. We would all have fireworks which our Dads would be setting off during the night and our Mums would be doing the food which included baked potatoes done in the fire. 😋 I always loved “Sparklers” and “Catherine Wheels” but “Jumping Jacks” and “Bangers” were too loud for me. Another great thing was that then we only had fireworks on Bonfire Night. Now they start setting them off before Bonfire Night and carry on until after New Year which is really annoying. 🎇🎆
Here in Devon, in a small town called Ottery St Mary, they take it to the next level - folks run through the crowded streets carrying blazing tar barrels on their shoulders! ruclips.net/video/QRYh-Sq5IlM/видео.html
I remember as a kid in the late 90s/early 00s in Northern England going around the village asking people for materials to build our own bonfire on one of the commons and create a guy and the folks willing to give us old wood and furniture to pile up and old clothes to stuff ("Penny for the Guy!"). The police stopped us as we were building the bonfire, we told them what it was for, they offered us advice and an officer even came along at night and kept an eye on everything for us as we set it on fire. It's just one of those things we do here. Like chasing wheels of cheese down steep hills, and town-wide games of football. And yeah, halloween is kinda different here in the UK. It had it its roots but now a large part of the population sort of over-embrace it as this spooky event for the kids but a lot of people just ignore it as an overly-commercialised American thing.
It's not a bank holiday but it gets celebrated every year. As a kid, we used to put potatoes in tin foil and throw them on the bonfire and wait an hour or so, then scoop them out the fire and eat them.. The joke goes that Guy Fawkes was the last guy in the House of Commons with a decent idea. We used to collect everyones rubbish, old wood, sofas and wardrobes to build our bonfire. A man made with old clothes and stuffed with paper, his head made with an old sock, again stuffed with paper for the head, this was called a Guy, obviously named after Guy Fawkes. Your Guy was then placed at the top of the bonfire, then it was lit. They put him on the rack, then hung drawn and quartered. Reccomend you watching the Tours of the Tower of London.
I just remember the horrifying adverts warning us about the dangers of fireworks in the 70s and 80s !! Hated fireworks ever since!! I'm a right misery around Nov 5th!!🙁😂😂😂
Usually the sale of fireworks to the public is restricted to certain times of the year. By chance the Indian subcontinent celebration of Diwali (festival of lights) takes place around the same time So in Britain and New Zealand, people of Indian heritage can purchase fireworks for that celebration. Although fireworks can be sold before Diwali there are far more sale-outlets before the 5th of November, which means cheaper and a bigger choice.
Halloween is not traditionally a big thing in the U.K. although in recent times we’ve started to import the US version in a sort of half arsed way - I think we imported the idea without ever appreciating the nuances of it, in the same way some of our schools now hold Proms, which was unheard of when I was at school (a very long time ago). I guess if we fully understood it, it still wouldn’t make sense in some areas. But if it takes the place of November 4th which in these parts was known as ‘Mischief Night’ or ‘Plot Night’ which used involve mild practical jokes but descended latterly into sheer (and pointless) vandalism, but has now seemingly died out, no bad thing. There are many local ‘fire festivals’ throughout the U.K. I went to one of them in West Witton in my home county of Yorkshire, ‘Burning Bartle’. (You can ‘Google’ it). You have to get there early as the village is packed. Much drinking and bonhomie until in the early evening and effigy is paraded through the village stopping off here and there to be offered more drinks. The crowds spill out behind the effigy, parading through the village chanting a doggerel verse which ends “Shout boys, shout!”. At the end of the village, up a quiet side lane the effigy is torched. When we joined the procession it was fun at first, but became increasingly disconcerting as the realisation dawned - “Oh my God, we’re taking part in a Lynch mob!” - or at least the folk memory of one long past. In some parts of Yorkshire there is no celebration of Bonfire/Guy Fawkes Night in deference to the local lad gone bad. Indeed at Farnley Hall just down the road from where I live a branch of the Fawkes family still reside. They are at pains to point out they are only distant branch of the treasonous Fawkes clan, but it doesn’t help when the current incumbent is called…..Guy Fawkes!
You’re referencing England. Halloween originated in Scotland and went over to the USA. We have turnip lanterns which became pumpkins in America. It was the night when devils and imps walked the earth and got up to mischief so you could only go outside disguised as one of them: ghosts, skee weletonsvor witches traditionally .We call it ‘guiding’. In the US it became dressing up and causing the ‘mischief’. The guisers go from door to door in Scotland and must sing a song, say a poem or do a dance to be given a treat. (Which used to be an apple or some sweets) When I was young most family’s would decorate their house with cobwebs , spiders and other scary creatures and ‘dook’ for apples ( duck your head into a bowl of apples to grab one with your teeth) , hang treacle scones from string and try to be first to eat it with hands behind your back… and sit round the lit turnip lanterns telling the scariest stories. This is the tradition that carried over to the US and has come back over to England. We Scots have always celebrated it.
@@sinnebeitaen2743 Well maybe. But I’m old enough to remember ‘bobbing for apples’ and eating confectionery off string without use of hands well before ‘Trick or Treat’ ever became a thing. And Yorkshire folk have marked the passage of a soul between Earth and one of the other places for a long long time at any time of year. See the ‘Lyke Wake Dirge’.
I am American but spent 10 years in the UK. There are fireworks in some places and also bonfires. There are effigies usually of political figures. Trump was a very popular one when he was in office! It is a bigger deal than Halloween in the UK. When I was over there I did go to see fireworks a couple of times. Unfortunately they don’t do S’mores, which would be a cool idea and now wish I had thought of that!
Back in the 80s n 90s we had something called mischievous night. It was inbetween Halloween and bonfire night. You can probably tell by the name what we got up to. It was really big in the north, but I don't hear of it these days. Maybe that's a good thing. I'd hate to comment about the tings me and my friends did on mischievous night.😬
Hi RUclips family! We certainly learned a lot here! Definitely some disturbing facts! 😳 But nonetheless a very riveting piece of history We were unaware of. We hope you enjoy it!
@@jules.8443 ha! We knew it!
Halloween and Bonfire Night are often kind of lumped together. Traditionally in the days leading up to November 5th kids would make a "Guy", which is a straw-filled effigy of Guy Fawkes, put it in a wheelbarrow or stroller, or on a home-made cart, and go door-to-door with the request "Penny For The Guy?" And people would give them some coins as a reward for making a good effigy. Sadly this doesn't happen anywhere near as much these days as it did when I was a kid in the 1970s! Nowadays very few people have a bonfire of their own, but instead attend a large one organised by the local council, usually on the weekend nearest the 5th, with a big firework display. Foods we eat around this time (traditionally) are toffee apples, cinder toffee (honeycomb), treacle toffee, hot dogs (with proper British sausages, not the hot dogs you have in the US!), Parkin Cake (look it up), and marshmallows toasted on the bonfire.
I knew some parts of this, but it was great to learn more details. And hot damn, they sure didn't believe in half-measures back in those days
For modern Guy Fawkes celebrations. Link to video of the Lewes bonfire 2019.
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When I was a kid, it seemed as if most families would have a bonfire party in the back yard, or go to a friends, as the big public displays weren't as common...
We'd have saved up scrap wood and fallen leaves and burnable refuse, old cardboard boxes etc., for the bonfire, our parents would have purchased copious amounts of rockets and firecrackers, and 'sparklers' (length of steel wire half of which was coated with an incendiary compound that sparkled when burning) for the kids to wave, and there would be sausage rolls and baked potatoes (hard core was baking your potatoes wrapped in tinfoil, IN the edges of the bonfire), and candy.
Kids also made an effigy out of old clothes, and would do the "penny for the guy" begging routine to raise money for firecrackers and candy.
On Bonfire Night, there would be a constant fusillade of bangs and shrieks, so it sounded like the Somme in 1916, and the air would smell of sulphur.
Since then, concerns about 'safety' and 'terrorism' have severely curtailed Bonfire Night celebrations.
It's celebrated all over the UK, I'm from Wales 🏴 it's a night when the whole country smells like it's on fire 🔥 Great video 🎆
Thank you Andrea! ❤🇺🇲
yep, all over the UK
The fog the night after is fantastic too! We used to play hide and seek the following night in the local park, big open space but you couldn't see more than 5 foot in front of you cos the fog was so thick.
it's also celebrated in New Zealand, bizzarely
A lot of people actually don't celebrate it. It's awful for pet owners because animals are petrified by it, and people with certain conditions/health problems. It's mostly a family event if anything.
Bonfire night is certainly far more of an occasion in Britain than Halloween is, and it's celebrated separately. It's also very nostalgic for many Britons, it takes us back to our childhood when we would be allowed to stay up late and gather around a huge bonfire and watch the fireworks display. It's a very unique holiday that can't really be compared to any other.
Remember the sparklers and the tv adverts about safety regarding, not the bonfires, but the fireworks and sparklers?
Hey Ladies
Good to see you back again. No November 5th isn't a holiday, more a traditional. Bonfires and fireworks happen around the 5th with some towns and cities having their bonfire night on the nearest weekend. Still a big thing here! Some bonfire nights near me in London get attended by 10000s of people. All for a couple of minutes of fireworks!
As a child Guy Fawkes or Bonfire night was a marker in the year that meant it wasn't long till Christmas. Always gives me a fuzzy feeling. However now, it just means I have a house of stressed cat's with all the fireworks outside ☹️
We feel your pain on July 4th. Poor animals suffer
Same, my poor cat gets terrified. There was a petition going around last year for licenced events on the 5th only and to ban individual sales of fireworks 👍
@@bethwilliams5579 I had a westie dog that was deaf and she loved bonfire night so much,the people next door always had a bonfire and fireworks for their kids and she was so taken with watching them that she got invited over
@@lilyliz3071 lol....
My psycho cat tries going out of the window to get a closer look
Technically it is a celebration not a holiday as we don’t get the day off.
Just in case no one has mentioned, although I'm sure someone likely has, Bonfire night, or Guy Fawkes Night is observed in Newfoundland Canada as well. Newfoundland didn't join Canada as a province until 1949 and was an independent dominion still connected to Great Britain up until that point, hence still commemorating a predominantly British historical event
This is completely separate to Halloween. This is really only an evening for the youngsters nowadays. In the run up to 5th of November some children make Guy effigies and ask "Penny for the Guy" from adults and get some money that way. Usually there are organised Firework displays and a large bonfire with said Guy effigy on top. Lots of families , especially if they have young children have their own firework parties and let off fireworks and have a smaller bonfire in their garden. Food wise it tends to be baked potatoes in their jackets and sausages. We don't have smores. Many people have their favourite fireworks such as Rockets, Catherine wheels etc but most children, at least when I was young, got really excited because of Sparklers which is a hand held metal rod about 12" long that was coated with something for about 4" with some chemical which when lit sets of loads of sparks, hence the name) and children would hold these and wave them around to make patterns. Needless to say there are a lot of accidents that night. There is no day long celebrations or time off work and most often the Bonfire Parties are actually on the nearest weekend to the 5th, but it is still something to enjoy in November.
We have Sparkers here. Thanks for sharing all that info!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow the biggest bonfire night celebrations are normally held in Lewes, Sussex, ruclips.net/video/YFW2llTndrQ/видео.html
As teenagers armed with axes and bowsaws we'd venture into the woods behind our council housing estate and fell sycamore, silver birch and oak trees. Debranched, cut to 20 foot lengths and hauled back on our ten-man-gangs shoulders with the smaller kids bringing the branches. Probably 50 or 60 neighbours would come together on the night and our bonfires were so solid they would still be burning a couple of days later.
It took a couple of weeks from finding the big centre pole to finally cramming all the kindling in on the 5th of November, lookouts checking that the rival gangs from the next estate weren't stealing logs or setting it alight. We dug holes and put broken bottles in or pieces of wood with 6 inch nails protruding and covered them to deter their night time raids.
It was gang warfare during this period with the railway line as the boundary, using catapults, throwing arrows and the occasional airgun but mostly just running battles which all came to an abrupt end when one of my friends was knocked out by a large projectile to the head which resulted in a a nasty wound. Remember there were no mobile phones in those days, we managed to revive him and get him home and his mum and dad took him into their three wheeled Robin Reliant to the hospital in the city. After that his mum started a one woman campaign that virtually killed off all that stuff, though she was helped by the woods being cleared for a small new housing
Many an effigy of Guy Fawkes was sat outside peoples gates with either youngsters or a scribbled note asking, "Penny for the Guy ?", which was to buy fireworks for 5th November. All the kids came to the bonfire with whatever fireworks they had in an old biscuit tin to prevent accidents. The most feared firework on those (fairly well managed) nights was the Helicopter, we all had to move right to one side for that one as it would fly in such a haphazard circular action that it was later banned.
I used to do that then have to ask an adult to buy us fireworks then the hooliganism began lol Best for Penny for the Guy was the Off Licence or Ciggy Shop.
@@lotuselise4432 Off Licence or as called round these parts; the beer off, though pronounced bare-off !
*Off licenses* were like a convenience store that was allowed to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption off those premises, normally ones home. They normally only opened at lunch and in the evening following the local licensing laws we used to have for pubs.
When I was younger, everyone had bonfires in the backyards to celebrate Bonfire Night/Guys Fawkes Night. It is also something that is taught in Schools, if you are British you know of the story from a young age.
Bondfire night used to be celebrated in Australia, but it is at the start of their summer, and in the late 20th century it was deemed too much of a fire hazard. However New Zealand still has official firework displays on 5th of November (pandemic permitting) and many unofficial displays.
Two traditional foods that we always associate with Nov 5th are treacle toffee ( a brittle toffee made with black treacle in a tray) and Parkin (a kind of ginger cake - also with treacle).
These days, due to safety concerns most families tend to go to organised events. When growing up in the 60s, everyone had a bonfire in their own gardens(back yard). We would watch other peoples from our bedroom windows first, then go outside to set of our own fireworks. The fireworks were fairly tame things, just as well as most of our gardens are quite small. We did however have 'bangers' and ' rik-raks' which some 'naughty' kids would hurl at others feet.
It does not go on for days, its mostly an evening event. If it falls on a weekday, their tends to be weekend events as well so you can go to several of them.
A lot of the history seems forgotten and its just a chance to see fireworks and bonfires.
Halloween is a completely different thing. Halloween barely got a mention when I was growing up.
Remember carrying a pocket full of bangers!!!
Health & safety would go bonkers!!😂😂😂
As everyone has probably mentioned. Bonfire night is not a holiday. No one has time off for it. But it is a good way of marking the long nights and how it's not long till Christmas and Longest Night. As a kid we would watch the fireworks, eat baked potatoes from the bonfire and have toffee apples (my dentist would hate me eating those now)
I'm from Scotland. Where I'm from the big event would take place on the closest Saturday to the 5th. The pipe band would play leading up to it as well as people walking about selling glow sticks and sparklers. Then the bonfire would be lit and the bit that everyone wanted to see was the fireworks. As I'm from an island many people would hold their own parties and do their own fire and fireworks. As most traditions in this country its an excuse to have a good drink. 😂
I always remember on bonfire night my dad making treacle toffee, my mum making pea and ham soup, wrapping potatoes in foil and putting them in the bonfire to make jacket potatoes
Did your parents forget the Parkin.?
What is Parkin?
@@tangowhisky14 no we had that as well, and if we had been good we would get cinder toffee as well
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow it’s a type off cake I’ll send you a link so you can see it
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow ruclips.net/video/538WrQC6mNA/видео.html
As a kid of the 80s what we'd do is get some of our father's old clothes and stuff them with newspaper tying the ends and make a fake head, and you'd take it down the local shops and sit outside and say "penny for the guy" to passers-by and they'd give you any loose change, then we'd buy some sweets, and you'd keep hold of the guy Fawke and stick it on the bonfire in our back garden on the 5th November, we'd usually spend weeks finding bits of wood before hand and we'd generally eat burgers, hotdogs and baked potatoes and hold sparklers, and you'd make patterns in the air with the sparklers. Sparklers are like a handheld firework for children that creates sparks, and yep they are dangerous. Lots of nostalgia for that time. These days it's just about the fireworks and most families just visit public firework displays, alot of stores don't sell them so much and they aren't as loud as they use to be. It feels like people who do buy them are usually tend to be for misuse
i used to love it as a kid going around the neighborhood asking people for old wood,we called it chomping im interested to know did you have a word for it.
Also an 80s kid, but we only bothered with Guy Fawkes Night if it happened to fall on a weekend. Bonfire, barbeque, and some shitty fireworks from the corner shop. I made a Guy once, but because it was made of old clothes and newspapers, it burnt away disappointingly quickly.
John Snow is a real person, he's a news reader in the UK.
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True, Channel 4 News.
Yep he is an idiot who needs to retire.
He is, I can vouch for that
He knows nothing
Some people say that Guy Fawkes was the only person to enter the Parliament building with good intentions 😉
I think it was honest intentions 🏴
It was 400 years ago and is celebrated all across the UK. There are lots of organised firework displays but lots of people have their own small fireworks at home in gardens. It is usually on the nearest evening to the 5th and is not an all day party. We personally don’t bother anymore as we don’t have small children but you can usually watch fireworks from home. As children we would make our own Guy from old clothes stuffed with padding… great fun! Love your videos!
We also celebrated Guy Fawkes night here in Australia when I was a child. These days it’s banned due to fire risk -although I can’t recall any fire happening from the 5th November Bon Fires
We celebrated it in Australia to I remember all of us kids building the bonfire for a week before Guy Fawkes night all the neighborhood would gather to watch it go up in flames and set off fireworks after we would through potatoes in the embers and eat them when cooked with butter it was a big deal and bought the neighborhood together peace out.
You're doing a great job. I'm working my way through all your videos. Liked and subscribed.
I always looked forward to Bonfire Night and the fireworks as a child, but they weren't anywhere near as powerful as they are now, or loud. Now for a few days before 5th November I have to have the curtains closed from early evening onwards and the TV turned up loud just in case my dog hears a firework being let off, or she goes to pieces and wets herself. It's distressing for her and upsetting for me to see her like that. It's unbelievable that fireworks (some of them are more like mortar shells) can be bought over the counter here in the UK.
Part of the fun, as the nights draw in and winter sets, is wrapping up really warm, stuffing your face with burgers and bangers. Also the smell of burning wood and fireworks.
For our non-British friends "bangers" = sausages/hot-dogs in this context :)
@@ftumschk 🤣🌭🌭 .... Two peoples separated by a common language ( W. Churchill)
Pie and mushy peas are still my favourite, especially steak and kidney pies. My mother once tried to make bonfire toffee but didn't cook it right and ended up with fudge! Needless to say we scoffed the lot!
When I was a wee bairn, between the ages of 5 and 10, my parents held a Bonfire Night party (of sorts) for the family and friends. Usually there was a bonfire that we kids were told to stay away from while waiting for the fireworks to start. My father was usually the designated person who set off the fireworks and these came in something called a "selection box". Basically it was a box FULL of these explosive treats, including rockets, a Catherine wheel, sparklers and a shed load more whos names I can't remember any more. Lol
Anyway, after the fireworks finished the adults would usually go indoors and us kids would watch the bonfire slowly start to burn down although some people would keep feeding the fire all night long.
After an hour or so my mother would come back to the fire with tin foil wrapped potatoes which we would throw into the embers to cook. When they were ready (about 40 minutes later), we would fish the silvery packages out of the fire with sticks and after cautiously opening the foil, as it was always hot, we'd eat the potatoes, skins and all.
Eventually we started adding things to the potatoes like beans, coronation chicken, cheese and a load of other foods. It was always a treat and always delicious.
Nowadays I don't celebrate Halloween or Bonfire Night as I'm a bit long in the tooth for it and I have a pet cat who is so scared of the fireworks that people set off a week before Halloween and for a week after the 5th of November and then again on Christmas Eve and every day right up until New Year's Day and often beyond.
@steven you I presume you are from the north east, as I am from cheers wor lad
Hi, I'm 66 and as a child we used to build a "guy" out of old clothes and stand outside shops with the guy in a pram. We would ask everyone for "a penny for the guy". On 5th of November all the neighbours would build a huge bonfire and all the guys were thrown on it. We all then had fireworks. These days the Gun Powder Plot seems to be a lot less important and its just really about have big firework displays. Also it is certainly celebrated here in Scotland. Loving your channel 😊
Hey Jenny. We used to do the same, I`m 62 and we always looked forward to Bomie Night. We used to stuff the guy with old News Papers. Where I lived, in Liverpool, there were loads of old houses, that were being Demolished ( slum Clearence from the war ) so Firewood was always in good supply. The various streets would Guard their Bonfire Wood with a passion and we would mount regular raids on Neighbouring streets, to steal their Firewood. Happy Days 😜👍😊.
Hi Stephen, From what I remember there was a fair bit of "pinching" of firewood haha. Luckily we had a huge green area at the end of our street so I think all the surrounding streets contributed to the huge bonfire!
@@jennywaters5016 Ha ha, you`re right Jenny, pinching the opposition`s wood was like mounting a Commando Raid, sometimes we would try and set each others wood pile on fire. Happy Days 😊.
@@stephensmith4480 I seem to remember that one year a rival gang set fire to our bonfire on the night before ( the 4th, 'mischief night') but we were a resilient lot and next day had a bonfire bigger than ever, most of the big stuff we'd stored on our shed roofs!
@@woodentie8815 I know, It was amazing now I think about it. The same if any wood got stolen by a rival gang, especially the good stuff, like old doors and pallets. Everyone would rally round, it was like a military operation and you would Always come up trumps with more wood. Where I lived in the Tenement Blocks, there were two fires, one each end and they always seemed Huge, I lived on the fourth landing and when I was very young, I could only go to the fire with my Mum or Dad, or if it was Raining, which it often was, watch from above. We always had a box of Fireworks that were set off at the end of the landing, it seemed like the whole community was involved and the atmosphere was awesome. Unfortunately, you seldom get that community spirit today 😊👍.
Hey Natasha and Debbie 👋 ! I personally really liked that drama the narrator talked about if you’re able to get a hold of it, it’s called Gunpowder and it aired in 2017 on BBC1 over here (I dunno about you over in the US but here in the UK I can now get it on Apple TV). It’s a 3-part mini-series, and like the narrator said, Kit Harrington stars as his ancestor Robert Catesby (which, like other commenters have said, is pronounced CATE-sbee not CAT-sbee). Hope this helps 😁😁
Bonfire night is a totally different thing than Halloween, when our kid's were younger, we took them to displays at our local park, there was a funfair, hotdogs,burgers,jacket potatoes etc, the Bonfire was probably was 20 feet +,and loads of fireworks, and a good time was had by all.x
I live near the houses that were used by Guy Fawkes and the Plotters to plan the the destruction of parliament - these are in Worcestershire and Warwickshire. A lot of the houses contain priest holes where catholic priests would hide. The priest holes were built by a chap called Nicholas Owen who died on the rack without revealing the location of any of them. He died after the plotters were executed - he was friendly with them. There is a BBC drama about the plot called Gunpowder which was well acted and gory in parts.
As kids, we would get old clothes and stuff them with straw and sit on the pavement (sidewalk) and shout Penny for the Guy to get money to buy fireworks and we would burn the guy on the bonfire. There is a channel called The Untold Past where they discuss the execution if Guy Fawkes.
The whole of Britain celebrates Bonfire Night, we don't have Smores, it is seperate to Halloween.
Glad you enjoyed learning about UK history/tradition. We were cruel sods, weren’t we!!😱. Some great comments here already.
And you don’t look older than (almost) 40, Natasha! You’re still a young’un!!
Btw.. you are correctly pronouncing Guy’s surname the British way with the ‘Orr’ sound. The narrator sounds like he’s saying Fox!
Here in Yorkshire, bonfire night food includes baked (jacket) potatoes, hot pork pie and mushy peas and for afters, Parkin, which is a dark ginger/oatmeal loaf cake. Yum!
The narrator also mispronounces Catesby - it’s not Cats by. It’s Kates by. It REALLY grates all through the video. Glad to see you delving into our history.
Nice video ladies and loving the t-shirt love dark side of the moon xxx as always enjoying your videos xxx
You two make me smile, laugh and happy. Keep doing what you do, because it is brilliant. x
That makes us happy! Thanks! ❤
This is the only person in our history of government who ever went into Parliament with the right idea.
The only ones who entered the houses of Parliament with honest intentions
I live in a small village in the north of England , we celebrate bonfire night very traditionally with treacle toffee, toffee apples, hot chestnuts and parkin which is a ginger flavoured slab cake. We drink cider or mulled wine at a well organised and safe bonfire and firework display with no noisy bangs to scare the wildlife halfway to death.
Bonfire night is usually cold & the town has this smokey haze & its smells of burning. Love the whole feel of it!
People either do their own or go to a big town display. We don't have smores here but people will do jacket potatoes, soup, burgers, hotdogs that type of thing.
Down side is fireworks going off for weeks & I have to keep the cats in - so it's not pet friendly at all.
I'd be happy with just the fire (although you've got to be careful of hedgehogs if build the bonfire over a few weeks) food & sparklers tbh.
While it originated due to a foiled attempt to blow up government, if the house benches were wired & they got a sharp shock through the arse cheeks everytime they lied, I wouldn't be totally against it 🤣🤣
Chilli con carne 😋
hey, loving the channel, as to what I do on Fireworks Night (common name at least where I am), I tend to hide away from the fireworks as im terrified of them :D, but yeah, not uncommon to see fairs, huge communal bonfires, basically its a good reason to meet up with friends and have some fun.
Never called Guy Fawkes Day, it's simply Bonfire Night and certainly not a national holiday.
Not so - it's widely called Guy Fawkes Day as well
@@stuartbrittain7835 Guy Fawkes *Night,* never heard it called Guy Fawkes Day.
The largest celebration of 'Bonfire Night;, or Guy Fawkes Night, is held in the town of Lewes, in Sussex (a county south of London, beside the English Channel). Over the years it has picked up other bits of English history, including a couple of revolutions and battles. A video is at ruclips.net/video/YFW2llTndrQ/видео.html Enjoy!
Bonfire night is definitely NOT a holiday. The effigy although often referred to as a "guy" originally was to represent the Pope as the gunpowder plot was a considered a Papist conspiracy.
The 5 November is not a UK holiday.
'Penny for the Guy' used to be said by children who had made a Guy effigy and took it with t6hem in the street to ask passers by for money. Money received would be spent on fireworks. This practise mostly faded out about 40 years ago.
@@matthewhale2464 This may be regional. I've not seen it in decades. That covers where I've lived in Leicestershire, Northants and Beds. The last time I remember penny for the guy was in Norfolk and was about 40 years ago as well.
We don't really do holidays in the same way as you guys tbh, it's more laid back than you're thinking.
Basically there will be local fireworks displays, usually there will also be a bonfire. There will be some food stands (you need to check out treacle toffee btw) and we all stand about and mainly discuss how it was better last year and wave sparklers. Often it rains.
Quite a few people don't really know the history of it now and it's just a fun thing they do with the kids.
My wife has given me an earful for not mentioning toffee apples and cinder toffee!
Traditional Bonfire Night food includes Parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee. In my area Lancashire hot pot with pickled cabbage is another favorite. A very important tradition is to build the biggest bonfire you can and stand around it drinking far too much beer :-)
As a child, I actually thought that Guy Fawkes was being placed on top of a bonfire because we were celebrating him almost getting rid of the King and parliament 🤷♀️ I guess that says a lot about how I felt about people in power back then…or how I wasn’t paying attention to every detail and felt so sorry for Guy, being brutally tortured 👀 We had to draw cartoons of that in History class at age 12 😳 I’m one of those boring people who’s not a big fan of fireworks 🎆 ( the sound of them…they’re pretty to look at in the sky ) so I’m afraid that I don’t do anything on the 5th of November 👀 Another great video Natasha and Debbie 👍🙂
During the State Opening of Parliament, which is the only time both houses of Parliament and the monarch is in the same place one MP is taken hostage and kept under guard as sureity to the safe return of the monarch. The first action od the State opening is still the ceremonial searching of the cellars by the yeomen of the guard, The monarchs official bodyguard since at least the 1400s.
Another great video! I have a suggestion for a video, maybe Debbie could bake some Parkin cake and then you both try it. Just a thought.
Loved your beginning. It made me laugh. Now to watch the rest.
If the gunpowder had gone off I don't think they're getting the deposit back on that rented room 😂
Jon Snow is a real person, he’s a British TV journalist, I know that’s not what you meant but technically true!
When ever I hear the name john snow my brain always follows up with a silent voice in my head saying "..... and Zeinab Badawi"
He was an olde doctor.
@@emdiar6588 . He was indeed. He created this fantastic chart/ street map of London marking all the cases of cholera in 1850 something. He then deduced that it was as a result of one street water pump. What a fantastic piece of detective work. Up until then it was thought to have been carried from the foul air from the Thames.
Pioneer in medicine. Should have been bloody knighted!
The doctor was John Snow rather than Jon Snow, but he definitely deserves a mention given his incredible discoveries regarding cholera
'Bonfire night' used to be a great event when I was a kid; about the only time you would see fireworks. As I got older I started doing small firework displays for family and friends in our back gardens - always with food and drink around as it was a party.
I am 70 now but when I was a child we would create a “Guy” by stuffing old clothes and putting on a mask and hat and put it in an old pram and wheel it down to local shops where we would shout”Penny for the Guy” and passers by would give us money with which we would but fireworks for Bonfire Night. Doesn’t happen today but people still celebrate the day with either public or private bonfires and lots of fireworks.
Best place to wait with a guy
was outside a pub in the evening!
Every year my dad's oldest clothes were stuffed with straw and a mask added to a stuffed nylon stocking for the head. IT reminds me of a cartoon I saw once of some children coming indoors after the celebration to see the guy still sitting on the kitchen chair and shouting excitedly "that was a great guy we burnt this year, wasn't it dad? ....dad? dad?"
As another has said, the main event was the bonfire and fireworks. The food was treacle toffee, parkin cake and also baked potatoes. We didn't use foil to wrap them in back then, just put them in the embers near the edge of the fire for 30 minutes or so.
24:45 Halloween, prior to the last 20-30 years wasn't celebrated much in UK, but it's grown to the present time to be a long week of nightly fireworks, bonfires, outdoor parties, etc.
We really will make any excuse for a party 😄
I am in my 50's my brother 60 and we always had big local bonfires doing penny for the guy, toffee apples, toffee lollies and jacket tatties in the early 70's continued.
Maybe it was just more popular further up north. I live in Durham
I love your vids. Your wierd/weird as he'll. My daughter's wife put me onto your channel. And I love it
When we were kids in the 60s and 70s every street had there own bonfire party. Kids used to build the bonfires on the weeks leading up to the event and used to steal from other bonfires to try and make the biggest and best. Everyone took their fireworks to the bonfire to let off. Even one called jumping jack which you had to run if they came towards you. Very dangerous and were eventually banned. My husbands mother and her friend made toffee apples for all the children of the estate. Very fond memories of these times. It wasn't a holiday, just a celebration on the evening of Nov 5th. Now though it is more an organised event, usually one or two large events held in each big town.
That's when kids could be kids.
Halloween was just a hollowed out turnip with a candle in it.
These days commercial Americanisms are wiping out our ancient traditions.
Trick or Treat is just thuggery. 7 teenage lads threatening a single woman in her own home is not acceptable.
Brilliant,,,lol,,, rembr rembr the 12th ,,,it’s my bday,,,lol
Please, please here in Warwickshire by Coughton Court we pronounce Robert Catesby as Robert Katesbe, not Cat, Kate. (shoddy research)
hi... cool video!... thought I could chime in as a Sussex, UK born fella... we grew up with 5th Nov as quite a big part of our lives and defo a date in the diary!... As kids in 70's / 80's Guy Faulkes night would mean... being taken into the town to watch night-time processions of torch-lit bands / burning barrels, and of course a big bonfire and fireworks! (either at public event or back at home with the neighbours)... Halloween wasn't a 'thing' for us back then so GUY Faulkes night was THE date in the diary before Christmas... 'Penny-for-the-guy' was a way for us to make a few 'pennies' by making a 'Guy'... (stuffing newspaper into a 'man-shaped' effigy - a pair of old trousers, sweater and a crudely made head) we would then take this 'guy' around asking for a 'penny-for-the-guy'... he would then find himself plopped on the fire!... for a better idea of what goes on watch this vid!: ruclips.net/video/Fcecvnlgu8E/видео.html enjoy! ;-)
Guy Fawkes was the only man to enter parliament with honest intentions!!
Great video. Nice to see our American cousins enjoying learning about our history and traditions. I personally love Guy Fawkes night (bonfire).
The honest intentions bit always annoys me lol.. I admit He was honest about the plot when he was caught, But i can't really consider a Religiously extremist motivated terrorist plot, conducted by skulking around in the shadows with the intention of murdering lots of people with no warning, not to mention anyone with the bad luck to be anywhere near the parliament building if had of worked.. all in order to put themselves in power. Nope can't really consider that anything other than horrific..
Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot
I see no reason, why Gunpowder Treason
should ever be forgot!
11:11 Yes, someone actually recreated the "chamber" in a deserted part of the country and exploded a similar amount of gunpowder, with spectacular results.
Wasn’t it Richard Hammond lol?
Yup, Richard Hammond. Built a full size representation of the original House structure at the Spadedam military area up north. Prepared the equivalent amount of explosive and it did go with a heck of a bang. Not a lot left, lol.
As a kid growing up in the UK, Guy Fawkes Night was always a big deal. A penny for the guy, fireworks, bonfires and hanging out with friends and family.
The best night of the year for us kids for excitement, especially growing up in the 60s but now it's a very tame affair.
Just love you two! I learned a few bits here, and I'm Welsh, should have known this stuff. X keep on with the videos.
Thank you ❤
"penny for the guy" though I am sure it's a lot more now if children still do that.
I remember seeing children with an old make shift cart with their guy going around asking for a penny for the guy.
The guy would then be burnt on the top of the bonfire.
It's mostly large public fireworks these days but as children my brother and I would sit in an upstairs window watching the fireworks waiting for our dad to come home so we could have our own display.
We were always allowed to choose one firework, my choice was the largest Catherine wheel that was in budget and my brother's was the biggest rocket.
Lots of sparklers.
Jacket potatoes that were baked in the bonfire and hot chocolate.
One of the best celebrations is in Battle, East Sussex, the place of the battle of Hastings (1066), Check out Battel Bonfire Boyes. The celebrations take place in front of the abbey in Battle. There are themed enormous effigies crammed full of fireworks, burning tar carried through the streets, people dressed in mediaeval dress carrying flaming torches, a huge bonfire and so on. When the "explosive" fireworks are detonated you can feel the concussive waves in the air. Pretty amazing. The effigies (huge things) are also themed to the big news stories of the year. For example when I have been there there were Sadaam Hussein (just after the Gulf War) , A Jurassic dinosaur (when the first film of the series was released) and a loving cup featuring Charles and Diana (the year of a royal wedding).
We don't have smores, usually bonfire night is when idiots get maimed by holding dodgy Chinese fireworks in their hands, which are sold year round.
There are usually locally held 'displays' which are marshalled and pretty safe.
Here in Cardiff, Wales there is always a massive display behind the castle - I know this sounds Harry Potterish - but look it up , we have a giant bloody castle in our city centre, although weirdly we tend to ignore or not register - American friends coming over have gone batshit crazy about it, but it doesn't register when I walk past it on a commute.
Love from Wales xxx
I'm 43 ; shit happens congrats on birthday and anniversary - love from Wales. xxx
James 1 was the king of Scotland and became the king of England and Ireland when he succeeded Elizabeth 1.
Where he was James IV!!! Isn't history confusing? :-D
@@margaretnicol3423 James VI actually, but we get the idea :-)
@@Macilmoyle Idiot! My fingers slipped and I didn't check. :-)
That is something of a kickback against the noise of fireworks and the affect on pets and wild animals prompting some supermarkets to sell silent fireworks and in one case stop selling them completely
The methods of execution were horrific in those days partly because of the religious fervour meaning the convicted were devout and truly believed they would be ascending to a better place after death. Therfore the theory was that if tcould not be made to fear death as a punishment they must be made to fear the method of their dying
The Catholic rulers also had 'inventive' executions. It's amazing what good people will do when they feel they have a god on their side (pararphrasing Christopher Hitchens).
When I was a kid, I would always have a bag of warmed up mini doughnuts that were coated in sugar when I went to a fireworks display for Bonfire Night.
As much as us brits like to think we're really stoic and not sensitive, we are. Plenty of people here will take offence to absolutely anything on youtube, from a mispronunciation to a 'unperceived' ignorance. But ultimately, they are the minority(!) So KEEP EM COMIN! Love the content
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"A BAD batch of Plague......................" Definitely the WORST type - and much less fun that a GOOD batch !
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Queen II is a great album. Props on the picture in the background.
Thanks, that's actually the album tho
I really enjoy watching you two presenting these videos, you have a gift for this. And happy anniversary!
If you every find your way to London I recommend The London Dungeon. It's a museum/attraction based on London's dark past and includes details about medieval tortures that were used and you can even walk round a reconstruction of Jack the Ripper's London... grim!
A lot of GoT was based loosely on British history events
I had to laugh when you said remember, remember the twelfth of november as i used to say that to my parents when i was younger as it is also my birthday.
Only the coolest people have that Birthday! Happy early one!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Happy Pre-Birthday to you too.
I remember going to Bonfire Night in Lewis, on the south coast. A figure of the Pope was paraded through the town instead of Guy Fawkes with the crowd chanting "Burn the Pope". The figure was then burnt on a bonfire.
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my dad's birthday falls on that night so as kids (im in my 40's now) we'd all go to my grandpas house where they'd have a huge bonfire, a few fireworks, and granny would cook jacket potatoes (baked potatoes) Hotdogs, burgers (it's quite an odd phenomenon the brits love a good BBQ for 2 weeks of the year in the summer and also the 5th of November.) and sometimes chilli and we wrap up warm and wave sparklers about. There would be sometimes as many as 15 or so of us. Three generations joining in celebrations ending in a birthday cake for my dad of course.
Sometimes we'd indulge in an organised display. Cambridge has a lovely one that is all singing all dancing, it's a light show and firework display with music, of course london has a huge one too, Not too expensive a night however food was always more expensive at the these things, so we'd usually eat at home.
But probably my favourite way to celebrate when money was a bit tighter, was to bundle into the car with my parents and sister, we'd have a massive bag of chips (steakfries not those thin things you guys call fries) and we'd drive a couple miles out of town and just sit in the middle of the cambridgeshire fen and watch the fireworks from all of the surrounding villages on the side of the road, my sister an i sandwhiched between our mum and dad tucking into these chips. Away from the noise and just enjoy the scenery. It was quite something. good times, good memories.
We used to be taught about Guy Fawkes from a really young age at school. We used old clothes to make a man and then go round asking "penny for a Guy" and people would give us pennies!! Then poor old Guy got chucked on the bonfire lol. I miss how bonfire night used to be. Now it's just a chaotic mess and hooligans throwing fire works 😩. Kids don't even know who Guy Fawkes was or much about him anyway.
Play them this video 😉
It's still taught in primary school. It's part of the National curriculum!
Another great reaction from you both. Wild fire is what you were thinking of. I'm a game of thrones fan as well. I love a good history documentary, always learning new stuff. We don't have bonfire night as a holiday in the UK. Years ago people used to build guy faulks in old clothes and straw ready for bonfire night to display on top of the fire. We eat hot mushy peas with mint sauce, and hot dogs. Every year there are fireworks displays up and down the country. And some people have fireworks in the garden. Thanks again to you both.
I'm from a little town called Lewes. We have the BEST bonfire celebrations in the whole of the UK. We're famous for it. Try Lewes bonfire in a search.
Becki. X
Thanks, we will
I live near Lewes and it’s a massive, bonkers night :-) ruclips.net/video/Fcecvnlgu8E/видео.html
I have heard of this "holiday" & I remember it mentioned in our world history book in high school. But only mentioned as a plot to kill the king & government---didn't explain WHY that I remember. I am fascinated by history so enjoyed learning reasons behind plot etc. But found the torture details sickening & disturbing and wish that had been left out. I wish the king had decreed that they would be executed but NOT tortured in any way. Great show as always, Natasha & Debbie. I have learned so much through your videos!! Educational AND fun!!
We have a newer saying based on this event now.
"Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter Parliment with honest intentions."
Which is why the event in modern Britian isn't so much about the saving of the Crown King anymore, but more a celebration of the bravery of Guy Fawkes.
Due to how corrupt and self severing politicians have become, sometimes you'll hear British people exclaim "Where is Guy Fawkes when you need him?".
Great reaction video, thanks for making it.
"What do you guys do for it?" If at home or small celebration, then potatoes baked in the ashes - best ever!
Halloween definitely wasn't as big a thing here in the UK when I was growing up, 80s/90s, and we did more traditional things around 5th Nov. A big bonfire, toasting marshmallows (never heard of smores back then either), cooking baked potatoes, making and burning a guy and letting off a few fireworks...there was usually a larger display arranged by the local football club which we always went to watch too. A nearby town, Lewes East Sussex, has a massive parade (pre covid anyway) and burns a huge effigy...here's a vid from 2019's offering ruclips.net/video/Fcecvnlgu8E/видео.html
Idk where u got that information from or where you lived in the uk. But you do know Halloween originated in the uk. More specifically Scotland. Its Gaelic holiday 🙂👍
@@Believer3_ I live in the South of England an am well versed on the origins of Halloween, but the celebration of it historically and what became the commercialised version (as common in the USA) definitely were not celebrated much at all in my neck of the woods when i was a kid nor in my parents generation.... Certainly not the aspect of dressing up and knocking on strangers doors to ask for sweets. It just wasn't a thing. but I guess that is why the UK is such a hotch potch of vastly different communities each doing their own thing around certain traditions 😉
@@Believer3_idk where you got that information from, but whilst Halloween may have originated here its never been as big a celebration as Bonfire night. At least not in the last 400 years.
Mary Queen of Scots nine days old ! Obviously, a six-day-old baby wasn't running things: Mary's mother took the reins while her daughter grew up in France.
But when 18-year-old Mary eventually did rule Scotland on her own, things got dicey: She married the man suspected of murdering her husband and was deposed. She fled to England, where she hoped she'd be protected by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. But Elizabeth kept Mary in captivity for the next 18 years.
Mary was eventually implicated in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth, and she was executed in 1587, at age 44.
It’s useful to look at this in the wider political situation in Europe, after Elizabeth I had Mary Queen of Scots (James VI of Scotland and I of England’s mother) executed the Pope stated that any Catholic who killed Elizabeth would have a free pass to heaven. Spain under Philip II had tried to invade England to return it to Catholiscm, while English troops had been fighting in the Netherlands against the Spanish to help the (mainly Protestant) freedom movement. When James came to the throne in 1602 there was still a strong suspicion and fear of a Catholic uprising.
Throughout Europe Protestant states and Catholic states were jockeying for power, the Reformation was in its final throes, but there was huge suspicion and fear of Protestants by Catholics and vice versa.
Food wise anything hot, but mostly sausages (also know as banger's), burgers, jacket potatos with chilli, or bowls of chilli, cups of soup, hot chocolate, anything to keep you warm as November is cold and the event starts when it is dark, to enjoy the fireworks
So this was around 1606, this event possibly might have changed the future of the US. So if Guy had been successful bringing Britain back into the fold of Catholicism maybe the Spanish wouldn't have been our enemies and so maybe they wouldn't have played such a significant role in aiding the US in gaining independence. Especially as Guy was a mercenary who once worked for Spain. They would probably have liked Guy and his new government. But that's all just speculation of course. But interesting to think about.
I think it was more to do with our turn around on slavery, the Somerset vs Stewart case outcome was the biggest turning point. Food for thought.
Hi girls
Debbie from Wales here.
You are quite right it is not a holiday but we do celebrate in the evening by lighting bonfires, and burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes on top of the bonfire and then setting of fireworks.
No its not a holiday just a celebration to remind politicians and authorities that they work for and answer to us...not the other way around. They seem to have forgotten that these days. Maybe we need another Guy Fawkes.
We are well over due another Guy Fawkes!!
Halloween wasnt "celebrated" but it was marked as the witching hour and we used to hold sleepovers and tell ghost stories at the witching hour.
@@captvimes bonfire night isn't Halloween
@@philipwhatcott997 Never said it was
@@captvimes yes you did
When I was little we didn’t really do much for Halloween. Bonfire Night was our big thing. My cousins and I would build a big bonfire in the garden and make a “Guy” to go on top and take him around to collect a “Penny for the Guy”. We would all have fireworks which our Dads would be setting off during the night and our Mums would be doing the food which included baked potatoes done in the fire. 😋 I always loved “Sparklers” and “Catherine Wheels” but “Jumping Jacks” and “Bangers” were too loud for me. Another great thing was that then we only had fireworks on Bonfire Night. Now they start setting them off before Bonfire Night and carry on until after New Year which is really annoying. 🎇🎆
Here in Devon, in a small town called Ottery St Mary, they take it to the next level - folks run through the crowded streets carrying blazing tar barrels on their shoulders! ruclips.net/video/QRYh-Sq5IlM/видео.html
Thanks!
Tar barrels at ottery st Mary is nothing to do with guy Fawkes . It’s merely a coincidence it’s on bonfire night .
I remember as a kid in the late 90s/early 00s in Northern England going around the village asking people for materials to build our own bonfire on one of the commons and create a guy and the folks willing to give us old wood and furniture to pile up and old clothes to stuff ("Penny for the Guy!"). The police stopped us as we were building the bonfire, we told them what it was for, they offered us advice and an officer even came along at night and kept an eye on everything for us as we set it on fire. It's just one of those things we do here. Like chasing wheels of cheese down steep hills, and town-wide games of football.
And yeah, halloween is kinda different here in the UK. It had it its roots but now a large part of the population sort of over-embrace it as this spooky event for the kids but a lot of people just ignore it as an overly-commercialised American thing.
Sparklers are also an essential part of the celebrations.
It's not a bank holiday but it gets celebrated every year. As a kid, we used to put potatoes in tin foil and throw them on the bonfire and wait an hour or so, then scoop them out the fire and eat them.. The joke goes that Guy Fawkes was the last guy in the House of Commons with a decent idea. We used to collect everyones rubbish, old wood, sofas and wardrobes to build our bonfire. A man made with old clothes and stuffed with paper, his head made with an old sock, again stuffed with paper for the head, this was called a Guy, obviously named after Guy Fawkes. Your Guy was then placed at the top of the bonfire, then it was lit. They put him on the rack, then hung drawn and quartered. Reccomend you watching the Tours of the Tower of London.
I just remember the horrifying adverts warning us about the dangers of fireworks in the 70s and 80s !! Hated fireworks ever since!! I'm a right misery around Nov 5th!!🙁😂😂😂
That & the firemen visiting schools & showing horrific images of burned houses & kids mutilated by pranks & fireworks gone wrong.
Usually the sale of fireworks to the public is restricted to certain times of the year. By chance the Indian subcontinent celebration of Diwali (festival of lights) takes place around the same time So in Britain and New Zealand, people of Indian heritage can purchase fireworks for that celebration. Although fireworks can be sold before Diwali there are far more sale-outlets before the 5th of November, which means cheaper and a bigger choice.
Halloween is not traditionally a big thing in the U.K. although in recent times we’ve started to import the US version in a sort of half arsed way - I think we imported the idea without ever appreciating the nuances of it, in the same way some of our schools now hold Proms, which was unheard of when I was at school (a very long time ago). I guess if we fully understood it, it still wouldn’t make sense in some areas. But if it takes the place of November 4th which in these parts was known as ‘Mischief Night’ or ‘Plot Night’ which used involve mild practical jokes but descended latterly into sheer (and pointless) vandalism, but has now seemingly died out, no bad thing.
There are many local ‘fire festivals’ throughout the U.K. I went to one of them in West Witton in my home county of Yorkshire, ‘Burning Bartle’. (You can ‘Google’ it). You have to get there early as the village is packed. Much drinking and bonhomie until in the early evening and effigy is paraded through the village stopping off here and there to be offered more drinks. The crowds spill out behind the effigy, parading through the village chanting a doggerel verse which ends “Shout boys, shout!”. At the end of the village, up a quiet side lane the effigy is torched. When we joined the procession it was fun at first, but became increasingly disconcerting as the realisation dawned - “Oh my God, we’re taking part in a Lynch mob!” - or at least the folk memory of one long past.
In some parts of Yorkshire there is no celebration of Bonfire/Guy Fawkes Night in deference to the local lad gone bad. Indeed at Farnley Hall just down the road from where I live a branch of the Fawkes family still reside. They are at pains to point out they are only distant branch of the treasonous Fawkes clan, but it doesn’t help when the current incumbent is called…..Guy Fawkes!
You’re referencing England. Halloween originated in Scotland and went over to the USA. We have turnip lanterns which became pumpkins in America. It was the night when devils and imps walked the earth and got up to mischief so you could only go outside disguised as one of them: ghosts, skee weletonsvor witches traditionally .We call it ‘guiding’. In the US it became dressing up and causing the ‘mischief’. The guisers go from door to door in Scotland and must sing a song, say a poem or do a dance to be given a treat. (Which used to be an apple or some sweets) When I was young most family’s would decorate their house with cobwebs , spiders and other scary creatures and ‘dook’ for apples ( duck your head into a bowl of apples to grab one with your teeth) , hang treacle scones from string and try to be first to eat it with hands behind your back… and sit round the lit turnip lanterns telling the scariest stories. This is the tradition that carried over to the US and has come back over to England. We Scots have always celebrated it.
‘guisers’
@@sinnebeitaen2743 Well maybe. But I’m old enough to remember ‘bobbing for apples’ and eating confectionery off string without use of hands well before ‘Trick or Treat’ ever became a thing. And Yorkshire folk have marked the passage of a soul between Earth and one of the other places for a long long time at any time of year. See the ‘Lyke Wake Dirge’.
@@sinnebeitaen2743 ‘guiders’ always makes me think of ‘Up Helly-a!’. (Hope I’ve got that right!!).
‘Guisers’ - bloody auto correct!
popular foods on bonfiire night are treacle toffee , Toffee Apple , Parkin Cake
I am American but spent 10 years in the UK. There are fireworks in some places and also bonfires. There are effigies usually of political figures. Trump was a very popular one when he was in office! It is a bigger deal than Halloween in the UK. When I was over there I did go to see fireworks a couple of times. Unfortunately they don’t do S’mores, which would be a cool idea and now wish I had thought of that!
Back in the 80s n 90s we had something called mischievous night. It was inbetween Halloween and bonfire night.
You can probably tell by the name what we got up to.
It was really big in the north, but I don't hear of it these days. Maybe that's a good thing. I'd hate to comment about the tings me and my friends did on mischievous night.😬