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Lewes Bonfire
 Lewes Bonfire ... hold torch-lit processions through the streets of the town. Newest Review: ... document from Henry VIII's reign recommends that people should hold processions and light bonfires as a celebration of their release from the grasp of the Papacy. It is certain that in Elizabethan times the accession of the Queen was commemorated by public bonfires on 17th November each year, and perhaps this made a significant contribution in her successor's reign to the later national ... more ... celebration of "Guy Fawkes Night" (though it is never properly known by this name in Sussex!)
After a turbulent later period were mob handed anarchists more or less took over the celebrations, Bonfire Societies were formed in the mid-1800s, a...more |
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Lewes Bonfire: Burning the Bishop (1187 words)
by steerpyke - written on 06.11.05 (Very useful, 447 readings)
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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 ...
A wilder side of Lewes (823 words)
by mouette - written on 26.10.03 (Very useful, 2552 readings)
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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 ...
Lewes Bonfire: Remember, remember... (1876 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 07.11.01 (Very useful, 2806 readings)
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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 ...
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