i remember as a kid in Scotland we spend 2 weeks collecting crap to burn different groups around town built bonfires like a contest one of my fondest memories lol great video
William Rice - "the last people who entered parliament with honest intentions." Indeed: they wanted to destroy OUR system of government, and replace it with a FOREIGN one ! Interesting parallel there, don't you think ?
There's a fairground about a mile from where I live. As a teenager, I used to go to a communal bonfire there. The fire was so massive, that as you walked down the road that led to the fairground, before you'd even passed by the houses that lined the road before it, before you could even see the bonfire, you could feel the heat from it. Up until I was 11, I lived in an area of the city I come from (the area has since been redeveloped,) where every street in the neighbourhood used to hold it's own bonfire on the biggest bit of spare land they had available; (this was back in the '60s, and our city had been heavily bombed in the 2nd World War, so there were still a number of 'bombed building' areas that were ideal for the purpose.) There was a kind of rivalry in building your own street's bonfire, and trying to make it the biggest in the area, to the extent that friends from the same classes at school, but who lived on different streets would become arch rivals around about October time, as they each tried to collect enough wood, old furniture etc, to build the biggest bonfire. The local kids from each street would even organize raids on neighbouring streets' bonfires (after dark of course,) so there existed a kind of juvenile 'gang war' until bonfire night had passed, when we'd all suddenly become the best of friends again. I seem to remember that in those days, if people bought new furniture, they'd buy it for delivery around about the end of September, so they didn't have to pay to have their old bed, sofa, sideboard or whatever taken away, letting the local kids have it for their bonfire instead. Alanna, thanks for your thoroughly enjoyable videos. You come across as an incredibly likable young lady with a great personality, and it's a pleasure to watch all the stuff you share with us. I wish you luck living in the UK and hope you're happy here, or indeed wherever you decide to settle.
You must go to Winchester it is the best night! Starts in the highstreet everyone has torches and walks through the city to go and watch the fireworks, it's like a massive precession!
We were sitting at the top of Detling Hill (Maidstone) with sparklers, a bottle of wine, hot soup and nibbles!! I sat and watched the whole of the Leeds Castle display from about 6(ish) miles away!! :D ... and also had views over the Weald of Kent stretching 20+ miles. We must have seen 10,000 fireworks going off that night...dozens of village/school displays in the distance that were the size of my little fingernail!!...Then we got cold and wandered off to the cozy warmth of the nearest pub where we got hammered :D
You want to switch your camera to PAL or 50 fps to avoid the strobe effect (being caused by UK's 50hz electrical supplied indoor lighting). Not a problem filming outside, but with artificial lighting you'll get the strobing.
My favorite Bonfire night memory is from when I was about 9 years old, (1974-5). All of the families in ours and the adjacent street had a huge bonfire in the middle of the road, which was unmade, very quiet and out of the way. We opened up our garage (which was in a block) and served sausages and jacket spuds. It was bloody freezing but really good and it stands out in my mind. Also we now know that you are somewhere in or near Kent as you went to Leeds castle. the display at Hever castle is supposed to be quite good as well. Good video.....again.
When i was a kid, we had smaller neighbourhood bonfires, always made at least one "Guy" and once the bonfire burned down a bit, most of us would stuff baking potatoes into the fire. The best baked potatoes you can eat, i guess because they were cooked in a "wood" burning fire. Everybody would bring some fireworks. That way you didn't spend much money, but because so many brought them they lasted for ages.
Way back sometime in the early 80s my parents and some others from the local area where we lived in Nuneaton got together to organise a big bonfire night celebration, utilising the waste/unused ground between our estate and the next ones over (a parcel of land something like 600 by 200 metres). We, the kids, spent a couple of weeks helping by gathering all the dead wood we could from that land. There was a collection to pay for fireworks, and the organisers got the local fire brigade to come check we were doing it all safely (so remove undergrowth for some distance around the bonfire, and soak the ground around that perimeter). It was a great night, and then some kids, including myself, spent the next couple of days nursing the final dregs of the bonfire to keep it going.
Edenbridge, just up the road from Leeds, always has a great one as well. They normally have a huge effergy of someone who has been in the news, which gets burnt on a huge fire as well as all the fireworks
it is the little hideaways of Berstead and Leeds a short trip outside Maidstone. And unless by car (avoiding Maidstone itself) is a complete pain to get to
Leeds Kent is a small village and main attraction is the castle which is where one of King henry the 8ths wives lived I live under a hour from Leeds castle Ive spoken to people in online chatrooms and they were in Leeds Yorkshire i asked them if they been to leeds castle some even didnt know about it i told them its worth going to see
I've lived in Kent pretty much my entire life, and I think I've only been to Leeds Castle maybe twice, despite driving past it on a regular basis. Same with Dover Castle, or any of the other castles in the county really.
My birthday is actually on Bonfire Night. I love the fireworks but my dog is so scared of them, bless him. We went out for a family meal one year and when we came back, the dog was upstairs shaking like a leaf and was so scared he'd had an "accident" on the landing. (That's British for the upstairs hallway.) Because he's a big dog with long legs, (He's a greyhound btw) it was hard for him to get back down the stairs so it took two of us to help him get back down.
I used to live in Lordswood, when it was a village, we, as teenagers used to go as a group to firework night. One of the guys had some work on his garden earlier and found what he thought was a horseshoe, so he put it in a saucer of cola and the following morning found out that it was a pure gold bracelet. The money his family made they emigrated to Australia. That was 1969, I now live in a place that was known as "Fawkes Hall". It has the spelling changed now and is called Vauxhall. Oh the bracelet - it was Roman. The whole area around Maidstone was a Roman settlement. Watling Street is an old Roman road. Also in the area of Detling and Boxley there are thousands of fossils, we used to decorate our garden with them.
When I was a child I used to hate fireworks because of the noise, but I have one memory that has stuck in my mind which is related to 5th November but not to the actual event itself. It was a school trip, this was the 90's, pre-internet, and our whole class sat in front of this special camera thing to effectively do an early live 'skype' with a class in another country. Now my memory of it was that I thought it was in the US (America), but I also remember all the children and teachers were black, so it may have actually been an African or Caribbean country but I don't remember which one. I was a very young child and didn't really have the concept of nations nailed down, America was on TV all the time so I must have just assumed it was the US. Anyway, what I do remember is that we were telling them about Guy Fawkes night, and how we were going to burn this scarecrow (Guy) that we were showing them. Poor kids, must have ruined Wizard of Oz for them.
My most interesting memory was a few years ago when the family decided we should go to the fireworks display at Blackheath Common. It's about 5 miles from where I live and the traffic was so bad that it took us 2 hours to drive 3 miles and we saw the fireworks in the distance. It took another 2 hours to get home. Never again!
The full verse goes like this: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November Gunpowder treason and plot I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November Gunpowder treason and plot I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes twas his intent to blow up the king and his parliament. With three score barrels of powder below poor old England to overthrow. But by Gods providence he was catch,d with darkened lantern & burning match. So holler boys holler boys ring bells ring. Holler boys holler God save the King...
Trevor Cannings I never knew that. Im British so I knew the story but as to the verses I was really only aware of the 'Remember remember the 5th of November' part. Learned something new, so hey
If you think tha bonfire was big you want to go to a Guy Fawkes celebration in Lewes on the south coast, they have local societies that take part in competative bonfire building, street parades with flaming torches etc. It's like the pinicle of Nov 5th.
Like you i live in kent and have been to leeds castle fire work display many times with family and my aunt came all the way from Essex to see it. . always a good night out and well recommended. Ive even seen James Blunt play live there If you go on the A20 towrds ashford from Leeds there is a village called Pluckley which is meant to be the most haunted place in kent and a really nice village with a really nice pub Darling Buds on may was filmed there and its how catherine Zeta Jones because famous If you go to Canterbury cricket ground around june time they have live concerts last year was Sir Tom Jones and Olly Murrs 1st person to play live there was Elton John
One year at our local display it was raining so hard they couldnt get the bonfire lit even with Firefighters throwing loads of petrol on the pile of wet wood. Just remember that one because my dad got fed up and we walked back to the car absolutely dripping wet
Bonfire Night is a real community event with family and friends coming together eating roast potatoes, jacket potatoes, parched peas, treacle toffee and Lancashire Hotpot (round our way anyway) fireworks before you light the fire, at school they`d always remind us to get adults to check for hedgehogs or cats that might have sneaked into the built up pyre before setting it alight. Every back garden had a bonfire of one size or another but these days the fashion seems to be to go to public events. People would collect a penny for the Guy which used to be spent on the Guy/bonfire but became a way for kids to collect money kind of like carol singing for money. If you had a very small friend you could get him or her to wear old scruffy clothes stuffed with newspaper to disguise their body shape and wear a mask and they would be the "guy" just remember not to put them on the fire lol. Groups would collect wood or other material and it became a way to dispose of unwanted items or rubbish. For fun some people make a guy to look like an unpopular figure of the day ironically often a politician. Incidentally the word bonfire comes from Bone Fire where people would gather for funerals to cremate relatives not unlike today. I have great personal memories of Bonfire Night.
the best fireworks ive seen are in edinburgh. especially at the end of the festival and at new years. i really recommend the edinburgh festival btw, so many acts you cant fit them all in.
The effigy is called a guy and is meant to be an effigy of Guy Fawkes. When I was at University in York I was listening to the University Radio Station, URY (the first station independent of the BBC to broadcast legally in the UK) and they played an interview with the then head of St Peters School, the school that Guido Fawkes attended. He was asked whether they celebrated bonfire night to which he replied "Yes". He was then asked if they had a guy to which he relied "We are not in the habit of burning effigies of old boys!"
Hello! Having read some recommendations below for Lewes (well worth it!) another festival you would like is 'up helly a' - Northern Isles. Get to Thurso in Caithness and keep heading north... :-). Part of Norse/Viking cultural influence.
Ironically, the best fireworks display I ever saw was in Canada on holiday. Has really made everything since pale in comparison! Well it was an international fireworks competition after all.
Lewes in East Sussex is the very best and wildest bonfire night In the true traditional raucous way Where effigies are burned. But not for the faint hearted.
THIS year, Honey (2018) you and your boyfriend REALLY should try and go to the LEWES Bonfire Night celebrations (even though they ARE on a Monday, alas): they are reckoned by many to be the biggest in Europe - and are TREMENDOUS fun. You also have a CHOICE of bonfire SITES within Lewes itself - each operated by (currently) one of SEVEN rival bonfire societies - who all parade through the medieval town centre with torchlights in fancy dress, before decamping to their separate venues. You'll have the most BRILLIANT time, really. And you get MORE than just ONE bonfire (which you simply HAVE to have on 'Bonfire Night') to choose from ! "Lewes is home to the *largest and most celebrated of the festivities in the Sussex bonfire tradition* . There are seven societies putting on five separate parades and firework displays on the 5th, and this can mean 3,000 people taking part in the celebrations, and up to *80,000* spectators attending in the small market town with a permanent population of just under 16,000.[5][6]" (Wikipedia) BTW, THESE 'celebrations' are, in fact, a COMMEMORATION - of the martyrdom of seventeen Protestants who were burned to death in Lewes High Street during the reign of Bloody Mary. You need to check out in advance, however, if you're thinking of driving (many prefer to go by train): the Police close off all the roads at round 4-5.00 pm. Literally THOUSANDS of outsiders attend. The Lewes Borough Bonfire Society is the oldest - but opinions differ as to which is the 'best' (for MY money) the Cliffe is always good): www.lewesbonfire.com/ Every year they burn the effigy of a certain personage: it is NOT to be taken too seriously ! ruclips.net/video/-nHIHo3VP8g/видео.html ruclips.net/video/Ms7wEX_26oU/видео.html That said, Sussex has literally DOZENS of bonfire societies which organise events THROUGHOUT the year, not just on the 5th. ruclips.net/video/-nHIHo3VP8g/видео.html Have fun !
I was about to say while waiting for your video to end, are you ever NOT sick? lol I'm always waiting for someone (probably English too) to say that that's a long way to go up to Leeds from Kent, just to see a few fireworks. :p
Remember, remember, the 5th of November Gunpowder, treason and plot I see no reason, why gunpowder treason Should ever be Forgot That's the full rhyme as I was taught it.
Never, ever in my short, little lifetime will I understand the utter gusto the majority of English approach Guy Fawkes Murder night, it's like a form of Stockholm syndrome, but to an insanely, other dimensions level.
Yeah, some of our fireworks displays can be a bit bonkers, perhaps we go too far. Also worth noting that alcohol is a big part of it too.. well, alcohol's a big part of everything here.
One positive of Bonfire night not existing in Canada is it has saved you countless maimed hands and other injuries thru fireworks going off prematurely and general misadventure. So every cloud...!
It's already been said but if you want a real cultural experience get to Lewes for the 5th (it's not too far from you). It is free and worth going for the whole day, I have never managed to stay until the end, which I imagine is around dawn. In Lewes it is still a bit political being that a load of protestants were burned at the stake in the high street, so they have a trial for the pope, find him guilty and usually burn him along with anyone else that's been contentious in the news. Lewes is a small town and every bonfire society in Sussex meets in a sort of bonfire/firework showdown with flaming processions that wind their way through the town nearly all night and at least five bonfire sites surrounding the town. It has a serious post apocalyptic, mad max kind of atmosphere. I remember walking along the high street in the early hours stepping over still burning bits of torch when I saw a small boy about 13 sitting on the curb eating something that he was picking from his lap, as I got closer I realised he had a roasted pigs head and was pulling off bits to eat. Turns out he always waits for the spit roast pig man to finish and asks for the head. Every now and then there is an attempt to ban the celebration on safety grounds, but it is an ancient tradition and there is great resistance from most locals, it is always safe enough to take an elderly relative to. Now that would make a vlog subject, I challenge you.
I can highly recommend the Leeds Castle summer concert (14th July 2018) - take a picnic and some camping chairs and sit back and listen to classic music into the night.
Within spitting distance of me and also a place that has very happy memories for me until they got rid of the aviary which pissed me off an I've not been back since. I will say one thing Lady Bailey (no relation) unfortunately has some great wines in the cellar the one place that ain't open to the public.
Ahhr see. Leeds Them snacks in the other vid, were very likely ilkley sourced. Awoh reit. Also; Every year some of us don't burn effigy of poor Guy Fawks. You should see an 11th july Orangeman bonfire. 10 x bigger & burn for a month. Fireworks are a bit more inclusive too. Dont wear green if You's go to one of them.
Yeah I am aware of both of those facts but was being sarcastic. :) I ended my comment with a :p which was to symbolise a poking my tongue out gesture but I appreciate that sarcasm doesn't always translate online.
History of it: ... we burned a homegrown terrorist, we saw an excuse to burn shit yearly and we took it. Fireworks were imported. Good times for all! Yaaay!
Probably killed by 'health & safety' depending on your district, but at one time kids would get an old stroller/buggy and make their own Guy Fawkes effigy and wheel it around town, going up to adult strangers and saying "penny for the guy" the adult would then give them change depending on how good the guy was..the guy was then put on the bonfire and the money used to buy fireworks.Often adults helped the kids make the contraption in order to maximize profits LOL
I came over from Ireland as a kid and, like you, had no idea what bonfire night was all about. Because Henry VIII turned this country to Protestantism. Bonfire night is one of the many Kings, Queens and plots to turn it back to Catholicism. The Spanish Armada was another one. The Catholic/Protestant struggle went on for hundreds of years and only very recently has it relaxed. Prince Charles could not marry Camilla when he first met her and married Diana instead. The fallout from that is all too obvious. He couldn't marry her because of the rules/laws against marrying a Catholic. After the disaster with Diana he was finally allowed to marry Camilla. The Religion thing was 400 years of grief.
Good fun when I were a child, growing-up in 1950s Islington (London). None of this organized, health-and-safety nonsense of today: just-turn-up at any event - no entrance fee. People would bring-out old furniture, unwanted children and other items of no further use, stack it all in the middle of their particular street, plonk on top an effigy of Guy Fawkes and set-alight to the lot. All this accompanied by fireworks (ignited by anyone who wanted to ignite a firework) whizzing-about everywhere. Had to be alert, mind you, just in case someone had set-off a rocket and it were travelling horizontally. Alternative venues to the middle of roads and private gardens were the many bombed sites which had not yet been redeveloped following the end of the Second World War. Ah, those were the days.....
The wiki entry on bonfire night is for the south of England, in a lot of the north of England they celibrate it because he tried and the effigy of Guy Fawkes is not put on the fire.
the fake body is called a guy, an effige of guy fawkes which you traditionally burn on the fire, "burning of the guy" the day before you take your guy and "penny for the guy" around and collect money. i used to do this outside pubs and get a shit load from it, then buy fireworks...nobody does this anymore guy fawkes night is quite watered down now..
No the person on the bonfire is real it's the British punishment for being a smoker in todays society. 😀 they decided putting 30g of tobacco up to £12 a pack wasn't severe enough.
If Leeds is in the Midlands then where is Birmingham, in the south? Leeds is in the northern county of Yorkshire and it doesn't have to be on the Scottish border to be northern. If you were to draw a horizontal line on the northern most part of the English/Welsh border, then everything above that can be considered the north of England. Do another line on the southern most point of the English/Welsh border and below that can be considered the south and everything between those two lines can be considered the Midlands. This video was in part about Leeds Castle, which is in the south of England anyway.
Sunderland is south of Gateshead so is that the Midlands too? Yes of course there are places in England north of Leeds but as I said in my previous post above, Leeds or any city or town in the north of England "doesn't have to be on the Scottish border to be northern" and there can still be places even more north than that......That's like telling someone who is 6ft 4ins that they are not tall because someone else is 6ft 6ins. Anyway, I'm sure Alanna didn't upload this video for it to become an English geography debate, even though I'm guilty of playing my part in it too. Sorry Alana. :p
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i remember as a kid in Scotland we spend 2 weeks collecting crap to burn different groups around town built bonfires like a contest one of my fondest memories lol great video
Wow! You're like an anthropologist, a real educator. Thank you.
I found your channel yesterday and I’ve already binge watched sooooo many of your videos 😂😂
They were the last people who entered parliament with honest intentions.
William Rice nice comment, how true!!!
William Rice -
"the last people who entered parliament with honest intentions."
Indeed: they wanted to destroy OUR system of government, and replace it with a FOREIGN one !
Interesting parallel there, don't you think ?
William Rice oh how funny ' well said, sounds like your education wasn't wasted.
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There's a fairground about a mile from where I live. As a teenager, I used to go to a communal bonfire there. The fire was so massive, that as you walked down the road that led to the fairground, before you'd even passed by the houses that lined the road before it, before you could even see the bonfire, you could feel the heat from it.
Up until I was 11, I lived in an area of the city I come from (the area has since been redeveloped,) where every street in the neighbourhood used to hold it's own bonfire on the biggest bit of spare land they had available; (this was back in the '60s, and our city had been heavily bombed in the 2nd World War, so there were still a number of 'bombed building' areas that were ideal for the purpose.)
There was a kind of rivalry in building your own street's bonfire, and trying to make it the biggest in the area, to the extent that friends from the same classes at school, but who lived on different streets would become arch rivals around about October time, as they each tried to collect enough wood, old furniture etc, to build the biggest bonfire. The local kids from each street would even organize raids on neighbouring streets' bonfires (after dark of course,) so there existed a kind of juvenile 'gang war' until bonfire night had passed, when we'd all suddenly become the best of friends again.
I seem to remember that in those days, if people bought new furniture, they'd buy it for delivery around about the end of September, so they didn't have to pay to have their old bed, sofa, sideboard or whatever taken away, letting the local kids have it for their bonfire instead.
Alanna, thanks for your thoroughly enjoyable videos. You come across as an incredibly likable young lady with a great personality, and it's a pleasure to watch all the stuff you share with us. I wish you luck living in the UK and hope you're happy here, or indeed wherever you decide to settle.
You must go to Winchester it is the best night! Starts in the highstreet everyone has torches and walks through the city to go and watch the fireworks, it's like a massive precession!
We were sitting at the top of Detling Hill (Maidstone) with sparklers, a bottle of wine, hot soup and nibbles!! I sat and watched the whole of the Leeds Castle display from about 6(ish) miles away!! :D ... and also had views over the Weald of Kent stretching 20+ miles. We must have seen 10,000 fireworks going off that night...dozens of village/school displays in the distance that were the size of my little fingernail!!...Then we got cold and wandered off to the cozy warmth of the nearest pub where we got hammered :D
You want to switch your camera to PAL or 50 fps to avoid the strobe effect (being caused by UK's 50hz electrical supplied indoor lighting). Not a problem filming outside, but with artificial lighting you'll get the strobing.
My favorite Bonfire night memory is from when I was about 9 years old, (1974-5). All of the families in ours and the adjacent street had a huge bonfire in the middle of the road, which was unmade, very quiet and out of the way. We opened up our garage (which was in a block) and served sausages and jacket spuds. It was bloody freezing but really good and it stands out in my mind. Also we now know that you are somewhere in or near Kent as you went to Leeds castle. the display at Hever castle is supposed to be quite good as well. Good video.....again.
That sounds really lovely!! It's so nice to have happy memories like that. Thank you so much for watching!
When i was a kid, we had smaller neighbourhood bonfires, always made at least one "Guy" and once the bonfire burned down a bit, most of us would stuff baking potatoes into the fire. The best baked potatoes you can eat, i guess because they were cooked in a "wood" burning fire. Everybody would bring some fireworks. That way you didn't spend much money, but because so many brought them they lasted for ages.
Way back sometime in the early 80s my parents and some others from the local area where we lived in Nuneaton got together to organise a big bonfire night celebration, utilising the waste/unused ground between our estate and the next ones over (a parcel of land something like 600 by 200 metres). We, the kids, spent a couple of weeks helping by gathering all the dead wood we could from that land. There was a collection to pay for fireworks, and the organisers got the local fire brigade to come check we were doing it all safely (so remove undergrowth for some distance around the bonfire, and soak the ground around that perimeter).
It was a great night, and then some kids, including myself, spent the next couple of days nursing the final dregs of the bonfire to keep it going.
Edenbridge, just up the road from Leeds, always has a great one as well. They normally have a huge effergy of someone who has been in the news, which gets burnt on a huge fire as well as all the fireworks
In true British tradition Leeds Castle is nowhere near the city of Leeds :) (over 230 miles away)
But it is near a village called Leeds apparently. I have just read it somewhere in these comments, you learn something every day!
Yea I have just looked it up on map, I did not know that :) thanks for the info.
it is the little hideaways of Berstead and Leeds a short trip outside Maidstone. And unless by car (avoiding Maidstone itself) is a complete pain to get to
Leeds Kent is a small village and main attraction is the castle which is where one of King henry the 8ths wives lived
I live under a hour from Leeds castle
Ive spoken to people in online chatrooms and they were in Leeds Yorkshire i asked them if they been to leeds castle some even didnt know about it i told them its worth going to see
Go to Lewes in Sussex this year. You will never see anything like it. Get tickets online for “Cliffe bonfire”.
Interesting to learn more about the history. Unfortunately didn't get to enjoy the fireworks this year, maybe next year. Great video hun #YTQueens💕
Thanks so much for watching!!
Great video! I heard of this event before. Also you had some nice clips of it all!looked like fun. I hope you're back to normal with the health:)
Thank you! Starting to feel like a normal human now... finally!
Toffee apples are a big Bonfire Night tradition too :-) I don’t know why but you only see toffee apples in shops in the uk around Bonfire night.
I've lived in Kent pretty much my entire life, and I think I've only been to Leeds Castle maybe twice, despite driving past it on a regular basis. Same with Dover Castle, or any of the other castles in the county really.
My birthday is actually on Bonfire Night. I love the fireworks but my dog is so scared of them, bless him. We went out for a family meal one year and when we came back, the dog was upstairs shaking like a leaf and was so scared he'd had an "accident" on the landing. (That's British for the upstairs hallway.) Because he's a big dog with long legs, (He's a greyhound btw) it was hard for him to get back down the stairs so it took two of us to help him get back down.
I used to live in Lordswood, when it was a village, we, as teenagers used to go as a group to firework night. One of the guys had some work on his garden earlier and found what he thought was a horseshoe, so he put it in a saucer of cola and the following morning found out that it was a pure gold bracelet. The money his family made they emigrated to Australia. That was 1969, I now live in a place that was known as "Fawkes Hall". It has the spelling changed now and is called Vauxhall. Oh the bracelet - it was Roman. The whole area around Maidstone was a Roman settlement. Watling Street is an old Roman road. Also in the area of Detling and Boxley there are thousands of fossils, we used to decorate our garden with them.
When I was a child I used to hate fireworks because of the noise, but I have one memory that has stuck in my mind which is related to 5th November but not to the actual event itself. It was a school trip, this was the 90's, pre-internet, and our whole class sat in front of this special camera thing to effectively do an early live 'skype' with a class in another country. Now my memory of it was that I thought it was in the US (America), but I also remember all the children and teachers were black, so it may have actually been an African or Caribbean country but I don't remember which one. I was a very young child and didn't really have the concept of nations nailed down, America was on TV all the time so I must have just assumed it was the US. Anyway, what I do remember is that we were telling them about Guy Fawkes night, and how we were going to burn this scarecrow (Guy) that we were showing them. Poor kids, must have ruined Wizard of Oz for them.
There's an international firework competition each year at Eastnor, Herefordshire
My most interesting memory was a few years ago when the family decided we should go to the fireworks display at Blackheath Common. It's about 5 miles from where I live and the traffic was so bad that it took us 2 hours to drive 3 miles and we saw the fireworks in the distance. It took another 2 hours to get home. Never again!
Oh my god you poor man, that sounds horrendous!
Light-up toy thingies = sparklers.
Or glow sticks
Don't forget the baked potatoes (tatoes in their jackets) and roast chesnuts with mulled wine when the fire dies down!
I remember this one time I made a guy out of stuff and put a Halloween mask on it, until bonfire night I got scared by it every time I walked past it!
To be exact the plotters had amassed 1 ton of gunpowder in the undercroft.
The full verse goes like this:
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November Gunpowder treason and plot I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes twas his intent to blow up the king and his parliament. With three score barrels of powder below poor old England to overthrow. But by Gods providence he was catch,d with darkened lantern & burning match. So holler boys holler boys ring bells ring. Holler boys holler God save the King...
That's pretty damn good, thanks!
Trevor Cannings I never knew that. Im British so I knew the story but as to the verses I was really only aware of the 'Remember remember the 5th of November' part. Learned something new, so hey
As kids me and my sisters always used to sing "Gunpowder treason and plop"..which seemed really funny to my 5 year old ears ;).
If you think tha bonfire was big you want to go to a Guy Fawkes celebration in Lewes on the south coast, they have local societies that take part in competative bonfire building, street parades with flaming torches etc. It's like the pinicle of Nov 5th.
Like you i live in kent and have been to leeds castle fire work display many times with family and my aunt came all the way from Essex to see it. . always a good night out and well recommended.
Ive even seen James Blunt play live there
If you go on the A20 towrds ashford from Leeds there is a village called Pluckley which is meant to be the most haunted place in kent and a really nice village with a really nice pub
Darling Buds on may was filmed there and its how catherine Zeta Jones because famous
If you go to Canterbury cricket ground around june time they have live concerts last year was Sir Tom Jones and Olly Murrs 1st person to play live there was Elton John
check out Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels, for 5th of November. its pretty different and a good excuse to get down to Devon
That was fawking awesome!
I went to thorpe park (theme park)
Just down the road from me,
It was amazing ,you should try it
Next year ?
keep up the cute & quirky :-)
Pete
One year at our local display it was raining so hard they couldnt get the bonfire lit even with Firefighters throwing loads of petrol on the pile of wet wood. Just remember that one because my dad got fed up and we walked back to the car absolutely dripping wet
Wow!! Guess it's pretty dependant on the weather.
Bonfire Night is a real community event with family and friends coming together eating roast potatoes, jacket potatoes, parched peas, treacle toffee and Lancashire Hotpot (round our way anyway) fireworks before you light the fire, at school they`d always remind us to get adults to check for hedgehogs or cats that might have sneaked into the built up pyre before setting it alight. Every back garden had a bonfire of one size or another but these days the fashion seems to be to go to public events. People would collect a penny for the Guy which used to be spent on the Guy/bonfire but became a way for kids to collect money kind of like carol singing for money. If you had a very small friend you could get him or her to wear old scruffy clothes stuffed with newspaper to disguise their body shape and wear a mask and they would be the "guy" just remember not to put them on the fire lol. Groups would collect wood or other material and it became a way to dispose of unwanted items or rubbish. For fun some people make a guy to look like an unpopular figure of the day ironically often a politician. Incidentally the word bonfire comes from Bone Fire where people would gather for funerals to cremate relatives not unlike today. I have great personal memories of Bonfire Night.
It pisses it down every bonfire night :D That's just how it is. lol
the best fireworks ive seen are in edinburgh. especially at the end of the festival and at new years. i really recommend the edinburgh festival btw, so many acts you cant fit them all in.
Next year you should try Alton towers there is no firework display like it in the uk in November
Sounds really neat!!
The effigy is called a guy and is meant to be an effigy of Guy Fawkes.
When I was at University in York I was listening to the University Radio Station, URY (the first station independent of the BBC to broadcast legally in the UK) and they played an interview with the then head of St Peters School, the school that Guido Fawkes attended. He was asked whether they celebrated bonfire night to which he replied "Yes". He was then asked if they had a guy to which he relied "We are not in the habit of burning effigies of old boys!"
Hello! Having read some recommendations below for Lewes (well worth it!) another festival you would like is 'up helly a' - Northern Isles. Get to Thurso in Caithness and keep heading north... :-). Part of Norse/Viking cultural influence.
Toffee apples are essential bonfire fayre. Parkin too
Ironically, the best fireworks display I ever saw was in Canada on holiday. Has really made everything since pale in comparison! Well it was an international fireworks competition after all.
You could try the competition at Eastnor, I think it's in August :)
Glow up, light up, toy thingy's = Sparklers :)
No I think she meant the plastic tubes you bend and then they glow green or yellow. They use them in the military.
They sell all sorts of light up tat these days.
you forgot the last bit of the rhyme gun powder and plot
Lewes in East Sussex is the very best and wildest bonfire night In the true traditional raucous way Where effigies are burned.
But not for the faint hearted.
THIS year, Honey (2018) you and your boyfriend REALLY should try and go to the LEWES Bonfire Night celebrations (even though they ARE on a Monday, alas): they are reckoned by many to be the biggest in Europe - and are TREMENDOUS fun. You also have a CHOICE of bonfire SITES within Lewes itself - each operated by (currently) one of SEVEN rival bonfire societies - who all parade through the medieval town centre with torchlights in fancy dress, before decamping to their separate venues. You'll have the most BRILLIANT time, really. And you get MORE than just ONE bonfire (which you simply HAVE to have on 'Bonfire Night') to choose from !
"Lewes is home to the *largest and most celebrated of the festivities in the Sussex bonfire tradition* . There are seven societies putting on five separate parades and firework displays on the 5th, and this can mean 3,000 people taking part in the celebrations, and up to *80,000* spectators attending in the small market town with a permanent population of just under 16,000.[5][6]" (Wikipedia)
BTW, THESE 'celebrations' are, in fact, a COMMEMORATION - of the martyrdom of seventeen Protestants who were burned to death in Lewes High Street during the reign of Bloody Mary.
You need to check out in advance, however, if you're thinking of driving (many prefer to go by train): the Police close off all the roads at round 4-5.00 pm. Literally THOUSANDS of outsiders attend. The Lewes Borough Bonfire Society is the oldest - but opinions differ as to which is the 'best' (for MY money) the Cliffe is always good):
www.lewesbonfire.com/
Every year they burn the effigy of a certain personage: it is NOT to be taken too seriously !
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That said, Sussex has literally DOZENS of bonfire societies which organise events THROUGHOUT the year, not just on the 5th.
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Have fun !
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I was about to say while waiting for your video to end, are you ever NOT sick? lol
I'm always waiting for someone (probably English too) to say that that's a long way to go up to Leeds from Kent, just to see a few fireworks. :p
You should go to Lewes Bonfire! (Biggest in the Country)
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The effigy used to be of the Pope, the plotters were Catholic, but now as stated by others it represents Fawkes himself.
That was the first serious attempt to reform the House of Lords, and the one with more chance of success.
It was pouring 😂
Most Bonfire Night celebrations are free :)
Remember, remember, the 5th of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot
I see no reason, why gunpowder treason
Should ever be Forgot
That's the full rhyme as I was taught it.
Never, ever in my short, little lifetime will I understand the utter gusto the majority of English approach Guy Fawkes Murder night, it's like a form of Stockholm syndrome, but to an insanely, other dimensions level.
London new years fireworks are 15 mins of fab
The full saying is "Remember remember the 5th of November, gunpowder treason and plot"
Penny for the guy Mr!
Yeah, some of our fireworks displays can be a bit bonkers, perhaps we go too far.
Also worth noting that alcohol is a big part of it too.. well, alcohol's a big part of everything here.
One positive of Bonfire night not existing in Canada is it has saved you countless maimed hands and other injuries thru fireworks going off prematurely and general misadventure. So every cloud...!
I don't know what Bonfirenight's you have been going too, not happend to me lol.
Lucky for you, I'm on the waiting list for a hand transplant :(
If you like fireworks then get on down to Plymouth for the fireworks championships on 8th & 9th August 2018.....
If you like fireworks then try to visit www.britishfireworks.co.uk/ Plymouth on the 8th and 9th of August.
You look glam x
It's already been said but if you want a real cultural experience get to Lewes for the 5th (it's not too far from you).
It is free and worth going for the whole day, I have never managed to stay until the end, which I imagine is around dawn. In Lewes it is still a bit political being that a load of protestants were burned at the stake in the high street, so they have a trial for the pope, find him guilty and usually burn him along with anyone else that's been contentious in the news. Lewes is a small town and every bonfire society in Sussex meets in a sort of bonfire/firework showdown with flaming processions that wind their way through the town nearly all night and at least five bonfire sites surrounding the town. It has a serious post apocalyptic, mad max kind of atmosphere.
I remember walking along the high street in the early hours stepping over still burning bits of torch when I saw a small boy about 13 sitting on the curb eating something that he was picking from his lap, as I got closer I realised he had a roasted pigs head and was pulling off bits to eat. Turns out he always waits for the spit roast pig man to finish and asks for the head.
Every now and then there is an attempt to ban the celebration on safety grounds, but it is an ancient tradition and there is great resistance from most locals, it is always safe enough to take an elderly relative to.
Now that would make a vlog subject, I challenge you.
Have you been to Leeds Castle during the day?
Its a nice place for an afternoon in the summer.
Not yet! It was always on the list but never got around to it - hopefully in the spring/summer!
I can highly recommend the Leeds Castle summer concert (14th July 2018) - take a picnic and some camping chairs and sit back and listen to classic music into the night.
kinda like the v for vendetta film my fav bonfire night movie
Bonfire is a contraction of bone fire. A popular method of execution back in the day.
Being ill twice in rapid succession - I suggest you take vitamin D in the winter.
I wish you should come India on Diwali time.
Southall is closer.
Within spitting distance of me and also a place that has very happy memories for me until they got rid of the aviary which pissed me off an I've not been back since. I will say one thing Lady Bailey (no relation) unfortunately has some great wines in the cellar the one place that ain't open to the public.
Ahhr see. Leeds Them snacks in the other vid, were very likely ilkley sourced. Awoh reit. Also; Every year some of us don't burn effigy of poor Guy Fawks. You should see an 11th july Orangeman bonfire. 10 x bigger & burn for a month. Fireworks are a bit more inclusive too. Dont wear green if You's go to one of them.
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She lives in Leeds, right besides Leeds Castle. :p
Sean Scanlon Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, Leeds castle is in Maidstone..... they're 230 ish miles away from each other
Yeah I am aware of both of those facts but was being sarcastic. :)
I ended my comment with a :p which was to symbolise a poking my tongue out gesture but I appreciate that sarcasm doesn't always translate online.
History of it: ... we burned a homegrown terrorist, we saw an excuse to burn shit yearly and we took it. Fireworks were imported. Good times for all! Yaaay!
Probably killed by 'health & safety' depending on your district, but at one time kids would get an old stroller/buggy and make their own Guy Fawkes effigy and wheel it around town, going up to adult strangers and saying "penny for the guy" the adult would then give them change depending on how good the guy was..the guy was then put on the bonfire and the money used to buy fireworks.Often adults helped the kids make the contraption in order to maximize profits LOL
I came over from Ireland as a kid and, like you, had no idea what bonfire night was all about. Because Henry VIII turned this country to Protestantism. Bonfire night is one of the many Kings, Queens and plots to turn it back to Catholicism. The Spanish Armada was another one. The Catholic/Protestant struggle went on for hundreds of years and only very recently has it relaxed. Prince Charles could not marry Camilla when he first met her and married Diana instead. The fallout from that is all too obvious. He couldn't marry her because of the rules/laws against marrying a Catholic. After the disaster with Diana he was finally allowed to marry Camilla. The Religion thing was 400 years of grief.
Shame we don't have a modern day Guy Fawkes who succeeds. Certainly would not miss any of this excuse of a parliament.
It's Remember , Remember the 5th of November . Gunpowder, treason and Plot!!
Good fun when I were a child, growing-up in 1950s Islington (London). None of this organized, health-and-safety nonsense of today: just-turn-up at any event - no entrance fee. People would bring-out old furniture, unwanted children and other items of no further use, stack it all in the middle of their particular street, plonk on top an effigy of Guy Fawkes and set-alight to the lot. All this accompanied by fireworks (ignited by anyone who wanted to ignite a firework) whizzing-about everywhere. Had to be alert, mind you, just in case someone had set-off a rocket and it were travelling horizontally. Alternative venues to the middle of roads and private gardens were the many bombed sites which had not yet been redeveloped following the end of the Second World War. Ah, those were the days.....
The wiki entry on bonfire night is for the south of England, in a lot of the north of England they celibrate it because he tried and the effigy of Guy Fawkes is not put on the fire.
Maximus Haughton The effigy of guy fawkes is burned on top of the bonfire in Manchester and that’s the north.
the fake body is called a guy, an effige of guy fawkes which you traditionally burn on the fire, "burning of the guy" the day before you take your guy and "penny for the guy" around and collect money. i used to do this outside pubs and get a shit load from it, then buy fireworks...nobody does this anymore guy fawkes night is quite watered down now..
I always thought Canada had bom fire night
No, I didn't even really know about bonfire night until moving here :) Thanks for watching!
Adventures and Naps yeah enjoy watching am from Bradford West Yorkshire
to bad we dont have a modern day Guy we could do with a few less politicians imho
Originally based in religious intolerance and hatred of course. Oh well
Guy Fawkes did nothing wrong
No the person on the bonfire is real it's the British punishment for being a smoker in todays society. 😀 they decided putting 30g of tobacco up to £12 a pack wasn't severe enough.
I think you will probably find brown fingers, a hacking cough, stained teeth, stinking clothes and lung cancer are the real punishments really.
Not as severe as lung cancer,blood complications and a whole manner of other illnesses,and,the ultimate reward.
AN EARLY & PAINFUL DEATH...
Leeds is the midlands...... not, The North of England
AYNSLEY STOREY Leeds is not the midlands its in Yorkshire which is in the north
To me its the midlands, i live in the North, Newcastle is the North, Leeds is two hours south
If Leeds is in the Midlands then where is Birmingham, in the south?
Leeds is in the northern county of Yorkshire and it doesn't have to be on the Scottish border to be northern. If you were to draw a horizontal line on the northern most part of the English/Welsh border, then everything above that can be considered the north of England.
Do another line on the southern most point of the English/Welsh border and below that can be considered the south and everything between those two lines can be considered the Midlands.
This video was in part about Leeds Castle, which is in the south of England anyway.
To me, yes,north of Watford,south of Gateshead, is the midlands. is there no England North of Leeds??
Sunderland is south of Gateshead so is that the Midlands too?
Yes of course there are places in England north of Leeds but as I said in my previous post above, Leeds or any city or town in the north of England "doesn't have to be on the Scottish border to be northern" and there can still be places even more north than that......That's like telling someone who is 6ft 4ins that they are not tall because someone else is 6ft 6ins.
Anyway, I'm sure Alanna didn't upload this video for it to become an English geography debate, even though I'm guilty of playing my part in it too.
Sorry Alana. :p