To think that Bonfire night is slowly dying out

[IndiGlowie]

It seems to me that Bonfire Night will gradually die away as a lot of younger people don't really like or approve of fireworks. I understand people getting annoyed and upset when pets are traumatised usually by shits letting them off long before 5th November. I haven't seen a penny for a guy on top of a bonfire for years .

I think Halloween has grown more in popularity and has gone from nothing to something huge possibly down to the internet .

Easter used to be bigger than what it is now when there used to be Easter Bonnet parades and a lot more people went to Church.

Christmas traditions Also fading away no Carol singers , decorations such as Holly and mistletoe and cards are dying out .

I predict New Years Eve Celebrations will increase in popularity as the years go by .

I found bonfire night miserable as a child of the 80s. Walking to the local park in the cold (and often rain) to see a fire burning was depressing.

Halloween has always been a big thing here.

I hope not. IMO Halloween has only become such a big thing since it’s become so commercial - thousands of tons of black and orange tat in the shops for kids to want - or clamour for - not to mention pumpkins - you just didn’t see them when I was a kid.

The only stuff in shops for Bonfire Night is fireworks, and then you can’t buy them almost everywhere as you once could - I’m talking the little, back-garden jobs here, not the huge, mega-bang stuff.

I used to love back-garden Bonfire Night (complete with Bonfire) as a kid. I’d like to think some people still do it. Nobody complained nearly so much about bangs, when it was mostly the likes of Roman Candles and Catherine Wheels in back gardens.

I hope it dies out, fireworks too. Police were advising the public to keep out of some of the deprived areas of our city last night, as it was so wild, with petrol bombs being thrown at the emergency services.
Why should anyone have to risk their life for one night of the year?

I agree and said this to DH yesterday! It’s great how traditions change and evolve but this year I struggled to get bonfire toffee and toffee apples and that’s not ok!

No way, not where I live anyway. Displays have become more popular than setting fireworks off in your back garden - and the various displays are really popular. Tickets are sold out, rugby clubs, cricket clubs etc all put them on, pubs do little displays and have fire pits for marshmallows with mulled wine/cider being served. There are bigger displays too.

I love bonfire night, I hope it never dies out.

I've seen at least 10 homemade. ' guys' in the lead up to Bonfire night. So 'penny for the guy' seems not to be dying out in these parts 🤷‍♀️

@PuppyMonkey I also quickly became jaded with many activities as a child. And, like my own mum, I've found it hard to keep up high energy enthusiasm for stuff like fireworks, with my dd.

It's more of a smaller town thing now I feel. Since regulations tightened you need a professional company with increased the costs beyond most villages (plus there's not enough companies doing them, we had ours on the 2nd). Cities are unlikely to have many displays for the same reasons.

20 years ago every town and village had them

It’s important to remember the true meaning of bonfire night - celebrating the torture, killing and mutilation of a Catholic.

This. It's a bit of a weird thing to celebrate so fervently to be honest. The scuppering of a terrorist plot and the subsequent execution of a follower of a then persecuted religion...

But I'm with you on Halloween.

Several thousand at our town fireworks last night ...

To be fair, Guido tricked the hangman by stepping off and breaking his own neck before the real fun could begin. Obviously he'd probably been tortured before but he saved himself the gruesome death his fellow plotters suffered through.

I find it stunningly hypocritical that some people will moan about Halloween being evil (especially Christians, who killed thousands of defenceless women as 'witches') when the next minute they are all around a bonfire effigy of someone who stood up to persecution and religious intolerance.

I prefer to celebrate both in the spirit they were meant as older celebrations.

Fireworks are for young children (therefore should only be used for licensed displays).

Adults who set them off otherwise are either a bit simple or highly anti-social and get a kick out of traumatising animals.

Awful things.

Our council one was really well attended. Those that I know who didn't or couldn't attend watched it from various locations or there homes (area has lots of hills so you can watch from anywhere in the city).

Halloween is quite popular and Easter isn't that big a thing. Christmas is still popular thorough virtually nobody sends cards now thankfully.

Who tried to kill scores of people.
/forget that, did we?

Not in our case. Our local one last night at the cricket club, jointly with the scouts, was superb. Been going for years. They sold tickets in advance for the first time this year. Sold out. It's great. Not dying out at all clearly.

@gogohmm I live in a large city! It was packed in all the different rugby/cricket clubs and parks where charities were hosting displays. The animal parks and the zoo also host no bang fireworks.

After covid, I think we need any opportunity to come together. This fits the bill. Everytime there is anything arranged locally, say putting on a film outside, it's sold out and the attendance is to capacity.

Probably depends on your area, my town has a big fireworks show every year, free. Thousands of people go, lots of young people and families. I think people will attend as long as the council keep running it (council still running it being the biggest risk in this financial climate I guess).

Which was in response to the religious persecution and state sponsored killings of catholics during the preceding decades.
/forget that did we?

In any case it was lords, royalty and ministers that would have been killed, at least he was going after the right people.

As I said it’s important to remember the true meaning of it, to keep in mind that, if you scratch the surface of our “peace-loving” nation, we’re still full of hate and easily led.

Maybe nobody wants to burn a guy now because they sympathise with Guy Fawkes.

I don't think Bonfire Night is dying out, given it sounded like the Western Front here yesterday evening. All private celebrations and not particularly nice weather, too.

Now Halloween is much bigger, I think we're heading towards a fortnight where the two events will be more merged, with some people having their bonfires and fireworks at any point in the period and the pumpkins etc sticking around for longer. Pros and cons to that I suppose, but the concept of winter festivals fighting back the dark is as old as humanity and so ingrained that while how it happens may evolve, it won't stop.

Our local fireworks seems to be getting bigger. I’d be delighted if they banned selling fireworks to individuals and it was just organised displays around the 5th, Diwali and New Year. They are stunning and I’m sure many will continue for a long long time. I think Christmas is here to stay, but Easter is just eggs and family time for me.

yes it should be banned it traumatised me every year to the point i have really bad panic attacks so yes it should be banned it starts far to early now two weeks before in my area and it so expensive now