Bonfire processions - a Sussex thing?

[Wozza]

Just discussing bonfire processions in November.

I had no idea it's a Sussex thing (with a bit in Surrey and Kent).

Why's that then?

 

[Spencer Vignes]

No idea why....but you're absolutely right. I grew up in Sussex, left aged 19 and have since lived all over the place since including the Thames Valley, Cornwall, Yorkshire and South Wales (where I am now). And none of them do Bonfire Night like Sussex. True, some of the villages along the Surrey/Kent borders get well and truly into the spirit (Brockham springs to mind), but it really is just along the fringes. More than any other time of the year, it's when I truly miss living in Sussex.

 

[Springal]

It's an East sussex thing I think. I have a customer in Uckfield and basically throughout October and November there seems to be weird bonfire processions every weekend in places I've never heard of. Bloody charlatans

 

[atomised]

It's an East sussex thing I think. I have a customer in Uckfield and basically throughout October and November there seems to be weird bonfire processions every weekend in places I've never heard of. Bloody charlatans

They start the first week in September in Uckfield oddly enough

 

[pearl]

They start the first week in September in Uckfield oddly enough

pagans

 

[beorhthelm]

i think the memory around the Lewes martyrs made it big thing in Lewes and it spread through the nearby villages. villages note, there's few towns that bother, Battle and Crowbrough? not many.

 

[Monkey Man]

i think the memory around the Lewes martyrs made it big thing in Lewes and it spread through the nearby villages. villages note, there's few towns that bother, Battle and Crowbrough? not many.

Seaford and Eastbourne have reformed their bonfire societies in recent years.

The reason the bonfire season is so drawn out in Sussex is that local societies all want to participate in the Lewes event, on the 5th, so they organise their own processions and displays to take place on other dates.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

pagans

Nah. The pagans do their bonfirey thing out in the far east of Sussex (the other side of Hailsham). West of that, it's a Christian (protestant) thing.

 

[pearl]

Nah. The pagans do their bonfirey thing out in the far east of Sussex (the other side of Hailsham). West of that, it's a Christian (protestant) thing.

oh, with the pirates and smugglers

 

[SAC]

There pretty bing in Northern Ireland too but usually in July.

 

[ManOfSussex]

i think the memory around the Lewes martyrs made it big thing in Lewes and it spread through the nearby villages. villages note, there's few towns that bother, Battle and Crowbrough? not many.

Hastings has a big one. Bonfire on the beach, fireworks from West Hill, procession with all the societies etc

It's always done on the nearest Saturday to the anniversary of the Battle - which is 950 years tomorrow.

 

[pearl]

There pretty bing in Northern Ireland too but usually in July.

there are some weird and hilarious posts on here today, but yours is the best LOL

 

[beorhthelm]

Hastings has a big one. Bonfire on the beach, fireworks from West Hill, procession with all the societies etc

It's always done on the nearest Saturday to the anniversary of the Battle - which is 950 years tomorrow.

i remember going to a big arse fire and display there, dont remember any procession. this is 15 odd years ago mind, ive not got back into it since returning from London

 

[hastings]

Just discussing bonfire processions in November.

I had no idea it's a Sussex thing (with a bit in Surrey and Kent).

Why's that then?

We used to have one in the sleepy little town I lived and grew up in, in Suffolk but never appreciated that we were the odd ones up here until you point it out

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I'll be marching in Lewes

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[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

The residents of Jarandina in Extremadura do a real professional job of this sort of thing at this time of year. Escobazos before Lewes every time.

http://turismoextremadura.com/viajar/turismo/en/explora/Los-Escobazos/

 

[ManOfSussex]

i remember going to a big arse fire and display there, dont remember any procession. this is 15 odd years ago mind, ive not got back into it since returning from London

It would be far bigger now than it was 15 years ago. They were bonfire society people selling official programmes for £1, all proceeds going to charity, last Saturday in the town centre.

 

[robinsonsgrin]

LA procession and fireworks are the last saturday in october. always a good night.

 

[Boys 9d]

Unfortunately some of the old Bonfire Societies are no more. I can remember as a child and early teenager watching the procession through Shoreham with the Bonfire and a Fun Fair taking place on what is now Adur Recreation Ground which at that time was part recreation ground and part town refuse tip. I also remember going to see the Beeding & Bramber celebrations.

 

[Norman Potting]

Nah. The pagans do their bonfirey thing out in the far east of Sussex (the other side of Hailsham). West of that, it's a Christian (protestant) thing.

Haven't been to Lewes bonfire for years but recommend it perhaps as a "bucket list" entry! Best ever version I have heard of "Sussex by the Sea" was by the Kohima Band (proper full on military marching band) performed outside Lewes Crown Court at well after midnight one Bonfire night!. Possible the same day I watched a "Bonfire Boy" casually toss a "rookie" onto the balcony of the "White Hart" which provoked an interesting reaction from the "Toffs" thereon when it detonated!