The group decided that Guy Fawkes should light the gunpowder and cause the explosion. Did they succeed? The police found the gunpowder before it exploded and they caught all the men involved in the plot. The men were tortured and killed. To celebrate his survival, King James ordered the people of England to have a bonfire on the night of 5 November. All over Britain there are firework displays and bonfires with models of Guy Fawkes, which are burned on the fire.
The Guy is made of old clothes and the clothes are filled with newspaper. The fireworks are a reminder of the gunpowder that Guy Fawkes hid in the cellar of Parliament. Some people have a small bonfire in their garden on 5 November, while in main towns and cities there are big bonfires and firework displays.
The biggest firework display is the Edenbridge Display in Kent. Last year the celebrity Guy was Wayne Rooney wearing Shrek-style ears and a football shirt. They need some warm food too. Traditional Bonfire Night food is hot baked potatoes. They are cooked on the bonfire and filled with butter and cheese.
There are also toffee apples apples on a stick, covered in sweet toffee and in the north of England they eat a special type of cake called parkin. Toasting marshmallows on the bonfire is also popular. In Britain only adults can buy fireworks but in the past they were sold to children too. Now you have to be over 18 to buy fireworks, and safety on Bonfire Night is an important issue. In my country, we celebrate New Year with fireworks.
There are fireworks of all colours and it looks amazing in the dark night sky! I have never heard about Bonfire Night. It sounds amazing and I want to celebrate it. In my country,Myanmar,Bonfire Night is not celebrated. But we have a very similar festival like Bonfire Night. It is held on the full moon day of Tazaungmon. On the night of Tazaungmon full moon day,almost every where is full with candles and colourful lights. Fire crackers,fire works and bonfires are the essential things of Tazaungdaing Festival.
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All rights reserved. Powered by: Safari Books Online. Not so in the s and s. Bonfire Night was a hands-on celebration. Family bonfire parties and get-togethers with neighbours were the thing. Families started to collect wood for their bonfire at the end of summer. The trees in the garden would be trimmed and the branches piled up ready for the big day. Any old planks of wood, doors or other combustibles would also be added to the heap.
Fireworks appeared in the shops a couple of weeks or so before November 5th. There were selection boxes of fireworks the most popular brand were Standard Fireworks or you could buy rockets and larger fireworks one by one.
Catherine Wheels and Roman Candles were particularly popular, as were sparklers and bangers. Bangers were small tubes of gunpowder that after lighting, were thrown on the ground to explode with a loud bang, not unlike a miniature stick of dynamite! Once lit, Jumping Jacks lived up to their name by jumping about erratically. Far too much temptation for naughty boys to frighten unsuspecting girls! The guy, an effigy of Guy Fawkes , would be made from straw and dressed in old clothes, and often displayed in a wheelbarrow to be pushed around the neighbourhood.
The money raised by the children would be spent on bangers and other fireworks. Following new laws in , it is now an offence to supply fireworks to anyone under the age of Neighbours and friends brought food to share at the bonfire parties — treacle toffee, toffee apples and parkin, a kind of gingerbread.
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