Bonfire night

My GS's primary school has a firework night display every year but no bonfire. I believe that in Lewes, East Sussex they still have a parade and then a huge bonfire. So, the tradition has not completely died out.

I think that the Halloween Trick or Treat tradition is largely an American import but I remember my mother telling me that, in Oldham, Lancashire, they had "Mummers" who visited the houses at Halloween but I can't remember what they did.

Like many other posters, I loathe the plastic pumpkins the tacky nylon costumes etc. that seem to proliferate every year.

Our Bonfire nights were similar, a group of friends who took it in turns to host.
The most memorable was one damp night when the host got impatient for the bonfire to take hold and so helped it along with a can of petrol. Fortunately no one was hurt, but the gooseberry bushes were never the same after their roasting!

I used to love it - we always had a bonfire and relatively small fireworks in the back garden. Sad that it’s been so largely eclipsed by Halloween - but IMO that’s largely down to all the black and orange tat in the shops. Bonfire Night was never a ‘merchandising’ opportunity in anything like the same way.

I always loved bonfire night as a child and then as a parent watching my own children having fun.

We used to take it in turns with the neighbours, in each others gardens. The dads lighting the fireworks and mums cooking the sausages and jacket potatoes on the barbecue, with the children oooing and aaaing.!

The smell of the bonfire and cooking, getting dressed up warm and then coming into the cosy house with a fire blazing to enjoy our smoky food.

Happy memories.

I loved Bonfire night .
We had a big party at school financed by our parents (mine complained , but contributed)
We had buttery baked potatoes and sausages as we watched the fireworks .
I thought that it was wonderful .
In those days Hallowe'en wasn't the event that it is now .
I noticed a few years ago that they'd become combined events .

Enjoyed it as a child, and with my children, and the toffee apples

We too had bonfire night with big fire on the bomb site and Guy Fawkes on the top and a few fireworks the jacket potatoes and toffee apples enjoyed by all the neighbours. Before the event we would put the Guy in an old pram to go out and do penny for the guy at the underground station round the corner. People actually did cough up 1d can you imagine kids today being glad of 1d 😂 we were such innocents in those days.

Much the same for us too. I don’t remember food though. Dad would take us to the shop with him when he bought the fireworks and we always had sparklers.