It saw their sales increase by 20% year on year. In 1910, firework manufacturers started branding the occasion as ‘Fireworks Night’ to cash in on the act. Elsewhere in the country, local businessmen came together to organise and sponsor community bonfire parties for charity.
In Lewes, notorious for its riotous celebrations, four bonfire societies began to organise annual gala events with spectacular fire-shows and parades that continue to this day. Local worthies clamped down on the worst excesses, magistrates issued warnings and the police made shows of force to discourage bad behaviour.īy the 1870s ‘decorum prevailed’, according to The Times, and communal activities became regulated. The anarchic activity seen before was now frowned upon. The Gunpowder Plot, and the figure of Guy Fawkes in particular, continued to seize people's imagination through the generations.īy the Victorian era, the date had become known as Guy Fawkes Day.
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