2831 x 4256 px | 24 x 36 cm | 9,4 x 14,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2010
Ubicazione:
East Hoathly, East Sussex, UK
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Mention ‘bonfire night’ and it’s possible that a good number of people would think of sparklers, toffee apples and keeping their pets safely indoors. Residents of Sussex would most likely cite their county town of Lewes, where the streets and skies are found to be bursting with colour, and crowds of 40, 000 people. A visual feast of spectacular processions and firework displays. Just a few miles away, in the village of East Hoathly, something slightly different can be found. They too have their celebrations - a bonfire, fireworks and processions of huge blazing structures, known as fire banners, that are carried aloft through the crowded streets. What is different about this though, and what is sometimes missed by the visitors attending the night they call ‘carnival night’, is that the village is in fact commemorating the Armistice and remembering the 33 villagers lost in the two world wars.On Armistice Day 1918 the village was celebrating: houses and shops were flung open and brightly decorated with flags and bunting; residents gathered in the street and lit a bonfire as they danced, celebrated and remembered. A few days later a fancy dress ball was held in the Kings Head pub and rounded off with a procession and more dancing through the village streets. It was from these celebrations that the East Hoathly & Halland Carnival Society was formed. The carnival today is a more elaborate affair. Many of the preparations are a closely guarded secret, and the themes for the bonfire sculptures and fire banners aren’t revealed until the last minute. Months of work are required to make the 6, 000 paraffin-soaked torches needed by the ‘walkers’, as they are known, to be carried in the torch lit processions. Each fire banner is made from wooden boards cut into hundreds of intricate shapes that when complete and hung on their finished structures need three or four strong people to carry them as they illuminate the crowds en-route to the bonfire site.
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