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<blockquote data-quote="Lamont D" data-source="post: 837554" data-attributes="member: 85785"><p>Bonfire night was all about the local bomb sites, it was not about fireworks, and the boys (and some girls) would be in your gang. You would collect the wood, protect the wood, and go on bonney raids to pinch or burn (prematurely) their wood. Your gang would build shelters, mass around the fire, bake spuds in the ashes. Smoke and talk, tell stories, some scary, some comical, make friends. This was a big part of the year. The start of winter, the run up to Christmas!</p><p>Bonfire would be lit about 7pm and one of your jobs would be to keep throwing more wood on it to keep it roaring huge flames. If yours got a mention or the fire brigade came to douse it (a little), they never put it out unless it was really dangerous. You became heroes.</p><p></p><p>Super days, dirty, and scruffy, camaraderie, a sense of doing thinks, discovering abilities about how things and you learnt how to control fire, even if you got a little singed doing it!</p><p></p><p>For a group of children allowed as a gang to do things is unthinkable these days! How sad, we have become!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lamont D, post: 837554, member: 85785"] Bonfire night was all about the local bomb sites, it was not about fireworks, and the boys (and some girls) would be in your gang. You would collect the wood, protect the wood, and go on bonney raids to pinch or burn (prematurely) their wood. Your gang would build shelters, mass around the fire, bake spuds in the ashes. Smoke and talk, tell stories, some scary, some comical, make friends. This was a big part of the year. The start of winter, the run up to Christmas! Bonfire would be lit about 7pm and one of your jobs would be to keep throwing more wood on it to keep it roaring huge flames. If yours got a mention or the fire brigade came to douse it (a little), they never put it out unless it was really dangerous. You became heroes. Super days, dirty, and scruffy, camaraderie, a sense of doing thinks, discovering abilities about how things and you learnt how to control fire, even if you got a little singed doing it! For a group of children allowed as a gang to do things is unthinkable these days! How sad, we have become! [/QUOTE]
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