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Lewes Borough is the joint oldest society with Cliffe, formed in 1853. Until 1859 they were known as the 'Lewes Town Bonfire Society' so they are really not considered the oldest consistently named society. That mantel belongs to Cliffe. They have been marching the streets of the town for over 150 years.
The parade commemorates Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot in 1605, as well as the 17 Protestant martyrs who were burnt alive in the 1550s in the centre of Lewes, who are represented by 17 burning ...
The Sussex Bonfire tradition is a uniquely local form of protest with several influences under the motto We Burn For Good. Whereas Guy Fawkes night in most parts of Great Britain is traditionally commemorated at large public fireworks displays or small family bonfires, towns in Sussex and Kent hold huge gala events with fires, processions and festivals.
An estimated 40,000 people attended the annual bonfire event in Lewes to mark Guy Fawkes Night. The different bonfire societies marched with huge effigies and holding burning torches along the ...
The events are organized by Lewes’ six bonfire societies. Historian Hutton suggests it’s the longstanding existence of these societies that’s kept Lewes’ bonfire traditions going ...
Revellers in Lewes in East Sussex, 5 November 2010. Bonfire Night, as it was occasionally known, [16] assumed a new fervour during the events leading up to the English Interregnum. Although Royalists disputed their interpretations, Parliamentarians began to uncover or fear new Catholic plots.
Crowds who gathered in Lewes, East Sussex for annual bonfire night celebrations could be heard letting out boos as the town's effigy of Rishi Sunak was paraded through the streets before being set ...
The Lewes Bonfire is a set of bonfire celebrations held on Guy Fawkes Night, which both celebrates the uncovering of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and commemorates the memory of the seventeen Protestant martyrs from Mayfield burned at the stake between 1555 and 1557.