jonny.rainbow
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smudge said:
No, I just like to know the reason.
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Lewes bonfire...?
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No, I just like to know the reason.
Virgo's Haircut
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At one point we we standing in a sort of alleyway off Cliffe High Street, that headed to a car park, and round to near where Waterloo is. All of a sudden a fracas broke out between one twat and 2 coppers. The twat put up a good fight for a short time knocking one of the coppers glasses off, and having him around the throat, before eventually he was overpowered, and no doubt got a good beating back at the station.
smudge
Up the Albion!
smudge
Up the Albion!
Caveman said:
Would have been even better if they'd have done a Stingray tableaux as well!
Lord Bracknell
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From the Lewes Bonfire Council's website:-jonny.rainbow said:
Commercial Square's pioneer front and society emblem were born out of protest, rather like the Bonfire tradition itself. During the late 1800s a handful of society members went to America to find their fortune helping to construct the ever-expanding railways. During their time there, they observed the dreadful treatment of the Native American population. Upset by what they saw, upon their return to Lewes, they decided to wear North American Indian costumes to raise the profile of the Native Americans' plight. This costume was so popular that it did not take long before the Indian motif became the society's leading costume and our emblem.
From time to time, the Commercial Square Bonfire Society give more information about this in their own bonfire programme.
pasty
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ali jenkins said:Aint that the smelly stuff your missus keeps putting in the fruit bowl?
Hunting 784561
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Isnt it quaint to see middle class liberals from Lewes letting their hair down once a year, and burning the Pope, Pikies, Red Indians and Steve Irwin, but all "in tribute " of course...
gawd bless em
gawd bless em
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jonny.rainbow said:
What a pethetic post. They are BLACK for f*** sake. What do you want them to do, dress up as white Zulu warriors? Sometimes this board can just be f***ing ridiculous. Maybe you should find out the facts first, before posting utter bollocks.
Lord Bracknell
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And where's the evidence to associate bonfire with the Lewes middle classes or, indeed, the liberals?Smart Mart said:
What he said.Commander said:
smudge
Up the Albion!
Smart Mart said:Isnt it quaint to see middle class liberals from Lewes letting their hair down once a year, and burning the Pope, Pikies, Red Indians and Steve Irwin, but all "in tribute " of course...
gawd bless em
I think you'll find that it was going on long before all those stuck up tossers appeared.
Lord Bracknell
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Actually, no tableau is EVER "set fire to".Caveman said:
The fireworks that it carries are ignited in a display that will last for a good period of time. The whole thing usually gets destroyed in a massive final explosion. But if a tableau simply burnt, it would be seen as a failure by the people who built it.
Hunting 784561
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Lord Bracknell said:
It must be all those beards and sandals.
No offence.
aftershavedave
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Smart Mart said:
Gazwag
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jevs said:
East Street residents move their cars as they know its on the procession route
is your road on one then
Lord Bracknell
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Indeed.Gazwag said:East Street residents move their cars as they know its on the procession route
Increasingly, parts of the event seem to be subject to last minute re-routing by the police (who don't seem to have much of a clue about what they are doing).
Last night, I found myself (and several hundred other bonfire society members) being sent along Southover Road, Grange Road and Rotten Row, with no-one watching and nothing but parked cars lining the route. We were all expecting to be in the High Street and I think all the car owners - mostly local residents - thought their vehicles were safely parked away from any danger.
Hey hum.
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Gazwag
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Well I surpose they need to do something to justify their £50k costs for policing the event
Lord Bracknell
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I remember - about ten years ago - spending part of the evening (about 9.30pm) in the Black Horse in the company of an OFF-DUTY local bobby.Gazwag said:
Those were the days before anyone in authority thought it was necessary to cancel all police leave and flood the town with police and surveillance cameras.
I blame Ann de Vecchi.
And I'm serious about that last comment.
Gazwag
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I use to know a local lewes bobby who, because he was local, lead one of the societies every year (cant remember which society it was now although his wife (at the time) was in Cliffe). That is what is missing now I think, the use of local knowledge