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Thread #95881   Message #1871502
Posted By: Cats
29-Oct-06 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Seen any Guys this year?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Seen any Guys this year?
There was a notice in our parish magazine that the local bonfire society would be around the village collecting for Guy Fawkes night with Guys from the week starting 30th October. I have photos of my father and uncles making the torches for the Lingfield Bonfire [Surrey] from the 1950's as we were a bonfire society family there, so I was really pleased to move onto Bodmin Moor in Cornwall to find a Bonfire Society still going strong in the village. As a matter of interest there is an electician in Bodmin, Cornwall called G Fawkes and he really is a descendant of Guy Fawkes.... a bit unnerving when you turn up for work on 5ht November to find his van parked outside!!