Do you say Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night?

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And whereabouts in the UK are you?

I'm from the North (Wigan) and say Bonfire Night.

I've never heard anyone call it Fireworks Night but have seen quite a few people use it on Instagram today.

Interesting, I didn't consider Diwali so Fireworks night could well be covering both although it seems FN may be more of a SE phrase judging by the thread?

There are still plenty of organised bonfires taking place around here (NW but don't live in Wigan anymore). Quite a few in metal bins in people's front gardens too...

Bonfire night

Liverpool

Bonfire Night. London. Have never heard of ‘Fireworks Night’.
NE friends call it Bommie Night.

I think it might be more age than region. Instagram.

Guy Fawkes

I’m pretty sure when I was a kid during the 70s we called it Guy Fawkes Night much more often than now. There was much more representation of GF with ‘penny for the guy’ on many streets, guys being burned on many bonfires including small residential/personal bonfires etc. Shift to more accessible fireworks has shifted the emphasis away form him to the fireworks ?
I can’t really remember the last time I saw a home made guy or a guy burned on a bonfire.

We've always called it Fireworks Night. We're in the South

@HeronLanyon

I’m pretty sure when I was a kid during the 70s we called it Guy Fawkes Night much more often than now. There was much more representation of GF with ‘penny for the guy’ on many streets, guys being burned on many bonfires including small residential/personal bonfires etc. Shift to more accessible fireworks has shifted the emphasis away form him to the fireworks ? I can’t really remember the last time I saw a home made guy or a guy burned on a bonfire.

I think you're probably right that it's probably more accessible fireworks but also it was still quite an overtly anti-catholic celebration in lots of places until relatively recently and I think guy may have disappeared as that did in some cases?

Bonfire night. Fireworks are part of other celebrations including Diwali and increasingly new year. plus people letting them off ramdomly

I agree about the Guy Fawkes bit fading in recent decades. I've explained it to the DCs about the plot to blow up parliament and the king being foiled and celebrated, rather than the emphisis being on Catholics being the baddies. It is relevant about how the state treated Catholics hence the rebellion, but it takes a more joined-up knowledge of history and goes into the terrorist/ freedom fighter debate

While Guy is fading in the way the night is celebrated, scarecrow festivals have caught on in recent years, so effagies are being made and displayed in a different way, with different purposes.

I grew up in the South East and we always called it bonfire night.

I use Guy Fawkes night, Fireworks night and Bonfire night interchangeably. Fireworks night definitely not unusual here.

Bonfire night. Fireworks night has always annoyed me even though that makes no sense because neither are correct 😂

Also call it Guy Fawkes and had a guy for the bonfire every year until about 2010 😂 I love bonfire night

Bonfire night, or Guy Fawkes.

I've never heard anyone call it Fireworks Night. That sounds really awkward.

I grew up near Scunthorpe.

Bommie night/neet
Bomb fire night/neet
Bonfire night

So any of those above that happens to fall out of my mouth I'm in the North east.

Bonfire Night. From the midlands and now in London. Never heard anyone say Fireworks Night.

Bomb Fire night is an abomination, sorry @StrangeAddiction – but probably closer to the night that started it all!

Yes to the anti catholic burning GF being behind that reducing in emphasis. Tbh I couldn’t remember that GF was catholic plot ! I need to remind myself of some basic history !