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the nights draw in and the autumn temperature drops, the night
sky will soon be aglow with the flames and sparks of Bonfire
Night. Bonfires and parades will be taking place all over
Sussex, but on Monday, November 5, the usually peaceful town of
Lewes will be at the heart of the country’s anniversary
celebrations marking the night in 1605 when Guy Fawkes and his
co-conspirators hatched the Gunpowder Plot and attempted to blow
up Parliament at the Palace of Westminster. Its legendary
parades mark far more than the Gunpowder Plot. The Lewes Bonfire
Night Celebrations also commemorate the 17 Protestant martyrs
burnt at the stake in Lewes between 1555 and 1557 as the country
struggled with the swing from the Protestantism of Henry VIII to
the devout intention of his daughter, Queen Mary I, to restore
Catholicism to England. Medie