Guy Fawkes Night
Hello everyone Dan's back,Guy Fawkes night or bonfire/fireworks night as it is also known as, where the sky’s light up with some spectacular fire works displays and bonfires, that are as high as you can see. There is an annual competition on who has made the best Guy Fawkes out of rag-bag of old clothes and newspaper customarily burnt atop a bonfire. The tradition started in 1606. It’s a great night to spend outdoors rapped up with a cup of hot chocolate and a hot dog.
On 5th November bonfires and fireworks will be going off everywhere as Britain
remembers its most infamous traitor - Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot conspirator caught red-handed in the House of Lords cellar in 1605 while about to blow up Parliament and the king in order to rid the country of its Protestant rulers and restore the Catholic faith.Fact: Until 1959, it was illegal not to celebrate the date of Guy Fawkes arrest in England...
However, in earlier centuries children were allowed free rein at this time as the night before Guy Fawkes' Night was known as Mischief Night, when groups of young children roamed their neighbourhood looking for mischief and playing pranks. Children would also blacken their faces as Guy Fawkes might have done when he waited to blow up Parliament. Mischief Night is these days no more, although such vandalism and harassment might now be recognised as an everyday occurrence.The first official Guy Fawkes' Night bonfire was lit on the night of the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605,
posted by Londons Premier Tour Operator @ 2:32 PM
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