Lewes Bonfire

Lewes Bonfire is a bit of a legendary past time! I have lived on the out skirts of Lewes for 21 years and you cant miss Lewes Bonfire. The quite quant town in east sussex, loses its self for one night a year and that is the 5th November. The are a number of different bonfire societies in the town, who spend the year fund raising for the big night. Each society has there own coloured strips and joing to gether every year to fill the streets of lewes with the presetion of torches. After the long walkes around the streets, each societybreak apart and go to their grounds for their individual fire work displays. Some of the displays are free ...  Read the complete review

The title of the review may seem like a naughty euphemism for something that I can't discuss in print on a site as proper and clean cut as Dooyoo, but I assure you it is not. The relevance will become clear as you read on, first a quick history test. What have the following events in common? Firstly, the burning of 17 Protestant martyrs in Lewes High Street from 1555 to 1557, under the reign of Mary Tudor. Secondly, the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when conspirators led by Robert Catesby planned to blow up King James I as he opened Parliament, the man at the heart of the action was, as we know, Guy Fawkes, and finally the landing of William of Orange (William III, half of ...  Read the complete review

It's nearly November 5th, Guy Fawkes' night. For Lewes it is Bonfire Night. Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, a small market town nestled in the shadow of the South Downs. It could well fit your image of a quiet well-healed liberal country town, with its fair share of eccentrics, unless of course you have experienced the Lewes Bonfire night. Lewes Bonfire isn't any old Guy Fawkes Night; it is the loudest craziest one you may ever experience. To give a little background, it might help if I start at the beginning. The 1550's were a time of religious intolerance in England, as Queen Mary I demonstrated by burning ...  Read the complete review

This year I made a silly mistake on bonfire night. I went to a firework display in Ravenscourt Park, in West London. It wasn't very good, really. The only moment of genuine entertainment came when the music that was accompanying the display broke (in the middle of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells). Normally, I go to Lewes, in East Sussex. For some reason, probably laziness, I decided to not do that this year, and instead go to a Guy Fawkes event much closer to where I live. Next year, I think I'll be going to Lewes again. Getting to Lewes from London is a bit troublesome. Normally I go with a group of people who hire a coach to take them down, being ...  Read the complete review

So you think you have been to a great bonfire party in your life do you? WEll you aint seen nothing until you have experienced Lewes Bonfire! I first went in 1995 after meeting my fiance (she is from Uckfield). She told me about a famous Bonfire extravaganza called Lewes Bonfire. I had never heard of the event but I am told its quite famous. Well, what a treat I had! Im not one for Bonfires but this whole town gets swept by bonfire fever every year. Around this small town there are many organised bonfire parties. There are literally thousands upon thousands of people there! It all stars about 6:30 in the evening with a parade of the ...  Read the complete review