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Remember,remember the fith of November,gun powder treason and plot.
Nobody knows about in Sweden and I trust not too many in the good ol'US of A. I've just spoken to my daughter in England and she is off to a big firework display on Kettering which isn't too far from where the plot originated.My own memories when I was a kid in the early 60's was making a guy and standing down the local market and saying.
Penny for the Guy mister

I certainly didn't know about that one and had to go look it up to understand what you were referring to. At first I thought you had the date of Remembrance Day a bit mixed up.

Very interesting.

Thanks for the post!!

Some say he was the only man to go into Parliament with the right idea

Well certainly around here bonfire night tonight is a bit of a washout as it is chucking it down.

People seem to be straying away from bonfire night from what I see.

From past experience the week before bonfire night was far from quiet with all sorts of explosive devices going off.

As a kid I can recall running around with a pocket full of bangers (some home made and enhanced) chucking them at other kids and dodging the ones chucked at me. The other thing was various groups of kids nicking bits of wood to build quite big bonfires and defending your bonfire from other groups either H3ll bent on nicking your wood or burning your bonfire down before the night.

The other thing was that, I believe, this was the only time each year you could buy fireworks so it made sense to stock up for the forthcoming year because you never knew when you might get the urge to blow up some airfix models.


In one way it is kinda good that the health and safety facists put an end to all those shenanigans because quite a lot of kids used to get hurt or killed around this time.

But bonfire night does kind of feel a bit sterile nowadays.

I've read V for Vendetta,so after that i did some research and i know all about Guys Fawks and The Gun Powder Plot.

Uh huh, Yep! Over the years I've always kind'a looked at that whole Guy Fawkes thing over there as kind'a like their version of the Fourth of July over here!

(...except of course that WE are celebrating our SUCCESS in throwing off the yoke of the british government!)

That was just the best night ever when i was a young fella
Every thing a young bloke could wish for "FIRE , NOISE , EXPLOSIONS and best of all BLOWING up your neighbors letter box if you did not like then , and others just for fun
We used to block up the holes in our letter box and fill with water , then retrieve the fire crackers the next day and start again

There was also a tendency to pop rockets into drainage pipes and other rigid tubing and have rocket fights down the street.

Generally the funding for these antics came from penny for the guy, nicking pop bottles and returning them for the deposit and saving dinner money up for a couple of weeks and finding a sympathetic newsagent who didn't mind selling fireworks to kids.

You could see kids getting slimmer because they were missing meals but it all worked out well because you had to be pretty quick on your feet in a home made rpg attack.

Just watched the film V for Vendetta. Just my little bit for bonfire night.One year I'll get the expats up here for a real bonfire night,all five of us