EWHURST & STAPLECROSS
BONFIRE SOCIETY

28TH OCTOBER 2023

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The road will be closed from 7 PM to 10 PM, so it is recommended to arrive in the village before 6:45 PM due to limited parking availability.

The most spectacular evening of our parish calendar belongs to every last Saturday in October. For generations that night has been deafeningly celebrated with bonfires, torches, rockets, processions and effigies. Together with many other towns and villages in Sussex we have complied with a 1606 Act of Parliament “for a publique thanksgiving to almightie God everie yeere on the fifte day of November” for the failure of the Gunpowder Plot. The Sussex Bonfire Calendar now runs from late August to December.

“Remember, remember the 5th November
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why bonfire treason
Should ever be forgot
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, it was his intent,
To blow up the Houses of Parliament.
Three score barrels he lay below,
To plot old England's overthrow.
Holler Boyes, Holler Boyes,
Let the bells ring.
Holler Boyes, Holler Boyes,
God save the King”

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