07 November, 2005

Brockham Bonfire (update)

...some pics!
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The "Guy" being paraded to the bonfire, before being hoisted into position. He is packed with hundreds of extremely noisy bangers -
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- then, the much anticipated "suprise" as this was the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes night and the 120th (documented) year of a bonfire night in the village litereally hundreds of thousands of flourescent streamers were shot out over the crowd, it was amazing! Then the torchlit procession placed their brands into the base of the bonfire sending a load of smoke and burning ash into the crowd (happens every year!) -
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- then the fireworks, which without any shadow of a doubt were the most impressive display I have ever seen, probably only went on for about ten minutes, but there wasn't a single second the sky wasn't completely filled, just awesome...
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