im hopping to go up to glasgow green again but have to remember the wellies... came home with half the green on us all ... the music was good 2 years ago if i recall, and the display was magic. so where are you off to the local fire roon the back or up the car park in the sky in paisley...??????

My grand daughter was born on Bonfire Night 11 years ago and she still thinks the whole country celebrates her birthday by having parties and bonfires .
Tommy

My grand daughter was born on Bonfire Night 11 years ago and she still thinks the whole country celebrates her birthday by having parties and bonfires .
Tommy

she must feel really special

were off to a big fireworks do down here same scale as the glasgow green,i go every year i loveeeeeeeee fireworks and toffee apples oh and ye canny beat a bag of hot chesnuts tae warm ya hands

ASh'll be in ma bed keepin the cats company. Or is it the other way round

quester u can have my dog aswell either that or im feeding him a btle o benylin to calm him down!!!!!!!

get som calms out the chemist they will work

thanks stuarty but what have i to get the mut????????????

Went to the Green last Nov5TH for the fireworks,well was supposed to see them.My Mum and Dad decided to eat first and we wandered round the Merchant City for hours before they decided where they were eating...we heard the banging while we were eating but they said that was just the preparations but by the time we came out it was all over....am so not going with them again this year.

Being here in Canada we don't celabrate the night .On top of that my Dad died on that date so I try and forget it . I do remember as a kid going door to door ,begging for a penny for the Guy.

jakka wen i stayed with my sister in new york, i never knew we couldnt set fireworks off, my bro in laws brother is a cop there and he put a supervised dispaly on for us, sorry this is a ruff time for u, xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

heres a hug xxx

It's funny...over here Halloween's the big night, and even when ah wis home Bonfire night didnae seem to be as big...or wis it? Ah remember the Penny fur the guy...but cannae seem tae click up huge memories of anythin else.

Hope ye's all have a great night

Funny ye mention yer dad Jakka....ma dad didnae really like New Year, wis a bit grumpy afore he wis happy kinda thing...and the older ah get ah realise it wis a day that brought back the 'what we'v lost' feelins...and now ah understand what ah could see in his eyes then.
Peace to ye pet for the comin week.

jakka are thoughts are with you .......

I have never really understood why we celebrate Guy Fawkes up here in Scotland,as it happened in England,almost 100 years before the union of the crowns.But I suppose all the people who manufacture and sell fireworks historical fact to get in the way of their profits.

[QUOTE=Riddrieperson,6th Nov 2005, 06:05 PM]I have never really understood why we celebrate Guy Fawkes up here in Scotland,as it happened in England,almost 100 years before the union of the crowns.But I suppose all the people who manufacture and sell fireworks won`t let historical facts get in the way of their profits.



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well its a good excuse for a party and a get together too, went to a display then bak to a m8s for a party, had a good time and there were no injuries pheeeew,,,,, the poor dog survived aswell ...... how did ure night go??? xxxxxx

i took my kids to the display at muirend gha rugby club and it was great, they thoroughly enjoyed themselves and so did a

Remember Remember The 5th of November.

One of the funniest Bonfires I attended with my neighbours and all our kids was one that was organised by the Council in Louth, Lincolnshire, an ancient market town lying between Lincoln and Grimsby.
There was a great frame erected with an access catwalk behind where official assistants would secure rockets to big wheels which when lit would spin like giant Catherine Wheels.
Kids loved it.
There were Rockets screaming up into the dark sky and exploding out in amazing multi-coloured star-bursts.
Kids loved it.
The hi-light of the evening; and what brought the firework display to an earlier-than-planned finish, was when a loose-cannon flew into the back of a small council panel-van where all the fireworks were located.
Kids loved it.
I was among the part of the crowd who first spotted the fireworks going off in the van and shooting out past it's open rear doors and the driver's window. At first we thought it was part of the display till we noticed some concerned assistants startin' to panic.
The kids loved that.
It didn't take long before we heard the approach of the fire department's big wagon (my immediate neighbouir was a fire fighter) but the crowd wouldn't separate to let the Fire Brigade through.
Everybody loved that bit.
Eventually they got through and doused the van - before the tank went up I suppose.
When the bonfire died down then it was "taters on the embers" time (totties oan the fire .)
The kids loved that.

Anymore memories out there ?

thi new craze of floating air bourne lanterns (chinese) must be dangerousas the are flying away from you(ok for you)were do they land are the totally consumed by fire can they start fires , i liveon the bounday of a massive private estate with an amazing amount of wild life ,i dont like it all.well not grey herons any way how much danger do these lanterns pose to me or the wild life . cheers kenb

Remember, remember the 5th of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot
Remember, remember the 5th of November
Should never be forgot.

The fireworks are fairly going off in our area.

There is no such thing as "guy fox night." What you are probably asking about is "Guy Fawkes Night," which is celebrated on November 5th in England and some other British Commonwealth countries. Also called "Bonfire Night" it commemorates the ruling Protestants' successful foiling on Nov. 5, 1605 of a Catholic conspiracy to blow up the Houses of Parliament when the king and most of the nobility and members of parliament were inside. Their goal was to restore the Catholic rule to throne of England. Guy Fawkes was one of the conspirators. Guy Fawkes was in charge of the actual act, but he was not the leader of the conspirators. The Gunpowder Plot , as it became known failed, and the British have been celebrating ever since with bonfires, firecrackers, etc................. Just a wee bit history



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ah mind wan bonfire night behind nicol mairs bakery dalmarnock road ,wis too big ,fire magade(whit we cawed thim as weans ) had tae be called as heat wis bustin windaes in the nearby tenements. we wurr awe mad back then eh!

I don't recall seeing a post here about "Guy Fox"
Anyway, there is also no such thing as Bon Fire Knight either.

I miss bonfire night !

We haven't been able to have fireworks for ages here in New South Wales. All the fireworks displays are now run by big money making companies on special occasions, especially New Year's Eve on Sydney Harbour !

Tombro

Remember remember the 5th of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason, why Gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

Is He no' big enuff?

Is this you repeatin' yourself Thomas?

Actually, it happened a couple of years after the Union of the Crowns (1603) It happened almost a hundred years before the Union of the Parliaments. (1707)

The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. His fellow plotters were John Wright, Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Robert Wintour, Christopher Wright, John Grant, Sir Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who had 10 years of military experience fighting in the Spanish Netherlands in suppression of the Dutch Revolt, was given charge of the explosives.

The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, on 26 October 1605. During a search of the House of Lords at about midnight on 4 November 1605, Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder—enough to reduce the House of Lords to rubble—and arrested. Most of the conspirators fled from London as they learnt of the plot's discovery, trying to enlist support along the way. Several made a stand against the pursuing Sheriff of Worcester and his men at Holbeche House; in the ensuing battle Catesby was one of those shot and killed. At their trial on 27 January 1606, eight of the survivors, including Fawkes, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quarteThe plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. His fellow plotters were John Wright, Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Robert Wintour, Christopher Wright, John Grant, Sir Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who had 10 years of military experience fighting in the Spanish Netherlands in suppression of the Dutch Revolt, was given charge of the explosives.

The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, on 26 October 1605. During a search of the House of Lords at about midnight on 4 November 1605, Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder—enough to reduce the House of Lords to rubble—and arrested. Most of the conspirators fled from London as they learnt of the plot's discovery, trying to enlist support along the way. Several made a stand against the pursuing Sheriff of Worcester and his men at Holbeche House; in the ensuing battle Catesby was one of those shot and killed. At their trial on 27 January 1606, eight of the survivors, including Fawkes, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

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