We were meant to go to a firework display last night but we had heavy rain and didn't go.
Tonight I have been quite lucky that i was able to stand outside my house with my children and watch 6 of my neighbours fireworks. Unusually for me I left my camera inside and decided it was worth having no photos and instead just enjoying htem with my children.
So, please show me your bonfire night photos, fireworks, bonfires, toffee apples, guys... they whole lot!
Am just running out the door to a display but did the same as you Emma and shot the nextdoor neighbours fireworks. Am really pleased with my first attempt. enjoy the rest of your evening ;-)
We don't have bonfire night here in Norway, but we do have bonfires on midsummer's eve. Is that a good enough excuse to post my bonfire picture here? ;-)
I took nearly a hundred shots at our village's display tonight, I ended up with less than ten I liked and this one was the best. (It looks better viewed large).
Thank you all for sharing some fantastic fire work photos.
Katy @grammyn
Bonfire night is celebrated in the UK on 5th November.
In 1604 Guy Fawkes became involved with a group of English Catholics who wanted to assasinate King James I and planned to blow up the Parliament house. They managed to rent an undercroft beneath Parliment and by July 1605 had placed 36 barrels of gunpowder in there.
In October 1605 some of the conspirators became concerned about Catholic members of Parliament and a annonymous letter was sent to Lord Monteagle which warned him "retyre youre self into yowre contee whence yow maye expect the event in safti for ... they shall receyve a terrible blowe this parleament"
Lond Monteagle raised his suspicions with King James who ordered the undercroft be searched on 5th November and they found the gunpowder.
Guy Fawkes was the first conspirator to be caught, shortly after midnight when he was leaving the cellar and hada slow mathch.
Fawkes was taken to the Tower of London on 6th Novmeber and he was tortured and interagated until the 9th November and in this time gave three confessions of the plot and names of his co-conspirators.
On 27th January 1606 Fawkes and his 7 co-conspirators were placed on trial and all were found guilty. Sentenced by the judge to be "put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both". Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed. They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become "prey for the fowls of the air".
In 1605 on the day of discovering the gunpowder Londoners were encouraged to celebrate the Kings escape from assassination by lighting bonfires and an order of Parliament designated the 5th November as a day for joy and thanksgiving which remained in force until 1859.
We still celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot on 5th November (often referred to a s Guy Fawkes Day or Bonfire Night) however it seems that some people are forgettign the roots of the celebration and many children now no longer know why a Guy (an effigy) is often made and placed on top of the bonfire.
many children now also don't know more that the first line of the rhyme
"Remember, Remember, the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see of no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'twas his intent
to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope.
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A ****** of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah! "
The second verse has generally fallen out of tradition due to its content but it gives an insight of the Protestant mindset of the day and how strong the anti-Catholic feeling was then.
@emmar84 Thanks you so much for the history lesson. I actually HAVE heard of Guy Fawkes Day but wouldn't have been able to tell you the story behind it. I didn't realize it was the same as Bonfire Night although if I had thought about it I might have made the connection eventually. Thanks again.
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Katy @grammyn
Bonfire night is celebrated in the UK on 5th November.
In 1604 Guy Fawkes became involved with a group of English Catholics who wanted to assasinate King James I and planned to blow up the Parliament house. They managed to rent an undercroft beneath Parliment and by July 1605 had placed 36 barrels of gunpowder in there.
In October 1605 some of the conspirators became concerned about Catholic members of Parliament and a annonymous letter was sent to Lord Monteagle which warned him "retyre youre self into yowre contee whence yow maye expect the event in safti for ... they shall receyve a terrible blowe this parleament"
Lond Monteagle raised his suspicions with King James who ordered the undercroft be searched on 5th November and they found the gunpowder.
Guy Fawkes was the first conspirator to be caught, shortly after midnight when he was leaving the cellar and hada slow mathch.
Fawkes was taken to the Tower of London on 6th Novmeber and he was tortured and interagated until the 9th November and in this time gave three confessions of the plot and names of his co-conspirators.
On 27th January 1606 Fawkes and his 7 co-conspirators were placed on trial and all were found guilty. Sentenced by the judge to be "put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both". Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed. They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become "prey for the fowls of the air".
In 1605 on the day of discovering the gunpowder Londoners were encouraged to celebrate the Kings escape from assassination by lighting bonfires and an order of Parliament designated the 5th November as a day for joy and thanksgiving which remained in force until 1859.
We still celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot on 5th November (often referred to a s Guy Fawkes Day or Bonfire Night) however it seems that some people are forgettign the roots of the celebration and many children now no longer know why a Guy (an effigy) is often made and placed on top of the bonfire.
many children now also don't know more that the first line of the rhyme
"Remember, Remember, the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see of no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'twas his intent
to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope.
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A ****** of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah! "
The second verse has generally fallen out of tradition due to its content but it gives an insight of the Protestant mindset of the day and how strong the anti-Catholic feeling was then.
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