Bonfire boys dressed as smugglers wave flaming torches in the annual Lewes bonfire night parade
"Members of a Lewes Bonfire Society founded over 200 years ago parade flaming torches in memory of 17 Protestant martyrs burned to death from 1555 to 1557, under the reign of Catholic Mary Tudor in Lewes High street. The huge spectacle is mounted every year by the town's seven bonfire societies. The bonfire societies also celebrate or commemorate the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when conspirators led by Robert Catesby planned to blow up King James I as he opened Parliament, and the landing of William of Orange (William III, half of William and Mary) on 5th November 1688 to restore a Protestant monarchy."
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Location: Lewes Sussex England UK Great Britain
Photo credit: © Roger Bamber / Alamy / Afripics
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