A VERY BRITISH TRADITION
Remember remember the Fifth of November
the House of Lords, was found and apprehended. The rest, as they say, is history. It was the King’s council that subsequently allowed the public to celebrate the monarch’s survival with the construction of bonfires and thus 1605 became the first year that the failed plot was celebrated.
I Guy Fawkes Night became hugely popular during the
late nineteenth century. Then, as the pyrotechnics became more sophisticated, this popular celebration became known as Firework Night or Bonfire Night. Children would often make an effigy of Guy Fawkes with a sign, draped around the neck, which read ‘A penny for the Guy’. Although the
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n 1605, a plot to assassinate King James I of England was foiled when Guy Fawkes, who had been guarding explosives placed beneath
popularity of this has now waned, there has been a definite growth in organised firework displays. These days, the pomp and ceremony of the opening of
every new session of Parliament includes a search, by the Yeoman of the Guard, of the basement in the Houses of Parliament to prevent a repeat of the conspiracy, which became known as ‘The Gunpowder Plot’.
"Remember remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot...".
Ed.
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