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An effigy of Fawkes, burnt on 5 November 2010 at Billericay. Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and VI of Scotland and replace him with a Catholic head of state.
Fawkes was baptised on 16 April 1570 at the church of St Michael le Belfrey, York, next to York Minster (seen at left).. Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in Stonegate, York.He was the second of four children born to Edward Fawkes, a proctor and an advocate of the consistory court at York, [b] and his wife, Edith.
Guy Fawkes, sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, was one of several men arrested for attempting to blow up London’s Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Fawkes and company were Catholics and ...
St. Michael le Belfrey, where Guy Fawkes was baptised; St Olave's Church, Marygate; Merchant Adventurers' Hall; Merchant Taylors' Hall; Museum Gardens (YMT) [a] St Mary's Abbey, ruins in the Museum Gardens (YMT) Yorkshire Museum (YMT) National Centre for Early Music, in the medieval Church of St Margaret and home of the York Early Music Festival
Dorrigo and Guy Fawkes Museum: Dorrigo: Mid North Coast: Local history: information, operated by the Dorrigo and Guy Fawkes Historical Society Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum: Dorrigo: Mid North Coast: Railway: Collection of railway vehicles and equipment from the railways of New South Wales, not yet open to the public Dundullimal Homestead ...
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Historical characters displayed included Vlad the Impaler, Genghis Khan, Guy Fawkes and Adolf Hitler. There was no waxwork figure of Jack the Ripper originally in the Chamber of Horrors, in accordance with Madame Tussaud's policy of not modelling persons whose likeness is unknown. Instead (until 2022) he was portrayed as a shadow. [9]
The most important period of Ordsall Hall's life was as the family seat of the Radclyffe family, who lived in the house for more than 300 years. The hall was the setting for William Harrison Ainsworth's 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, written around the plausible although unsubstantiated local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned in the house.