The 5th of November is Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night in the UK. It is a celebration held to commemorate the failure of a plan to kill King James I on 1605 by blowing up the House of Lords. Guy Fawkes was the man found in cahoots with the plot to kill the king, though it was a host of people who had put it together. Now it's celebrated by bonfires and fireworks, and according to one of my friends a wooden man representing Guy Fawkes is normally dangled above the bonfire to burn.
We went to one of the celebrations here in Nottingham that was actually turned into a mini fair along with the bonfire and fireworks display.
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| The bonfire from the tram stop (shortly after it was lit) |
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| By the time we got to it |
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