Bonfire Night in Lewes 2002

5 November 2002 - page one - the parades

	Lewes Bonfire parades are always torchlit. Here, the societies form up in the High Street wearing fancy dress or their traditional smugglers' hooped shirts.
		Some of the bonfire societies construct papier-mache firework set pieces. Here, George Bush sits astride a rocket waiting to be paraded through the town and then blown to pieces. The strange ufo-like blobs in the picture are not aliens come to monitor the barbaric practices of the indigenous species, but much more mundanely are raindrops caught in the act of falling by my flashgun
	A group of us ventured out to see the spectacle (not of me falling over backwards while trying to backpedal fast enough to take this picture). From the left, Ken Brown, Rossman, Cate Livingstone, and Alice and Claire with Juliet behind and between them	Claire and Alice
Ken shows off his distinctive profile
		Cate displays the best hat in the parade...
	...although there was some stiff competition
		stunning
I don't care if it's out of focus. I love it!

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