...tonight (assuming the rain holds off), it being the first time in goodness knows how many years that November the 5th has actually fallen on a Saturday night! For tonight's entertainment we can thank Guy Fawkes and his miserable attempt to blow up the Houses of Parlement in London...
Brockham is the biggest bonfire party I have ever witnessed, it's been practiced for well over 120 years (documented) but may well have been running for many years longer than that...in 1920 the bonfire was apparently made 125 feet tall and was recorded in the Guiness book of records, and in 1990 (I was there that year) the bonfire partially collapsed into the crowd! So now the bonfire is of more modest dimensions, although still extremely impressive...I took the snap last Sunday while they were putting it together...
Should be a good night! :)
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