Bonfire Night

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Jumping jacks and aeroplanes? Are they mega fireworks or something? Sound better than bangers!

[SimonM]

>>Jumping jacks and aeroplanes? Are they mega fireworks or something<<

Well....if you at the photograph at http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/museum/box6.jpg , there is a small jumping jack at top centre of the photo, the one looking a bit like a startled snake. They were (allegedly) dangerous because they jumped all over the place once set off. An aeroplane looked like a large banger with a strip of cardboard attached at right angles across its centre, so looked vaguely like a biplane. You stuck it on a wall and it "flew" off loudly and in a horizonal plane...

Learning to cope with "dangerous" fireworks was a good toughening-up exercise and an excellent preparation for life! Eho needs 8 fingers and 2 thumbs anyway?

[susyp]

anyone know anymore about anything being held at the Horniman Museum - that would be a great backdrop..

[rifleman harris]

Bonfire night usually starts around 29th October and finishes around 10th November. Then again all my campaigning in the Peninsular and France against Napoleons forces have made me deaf anyway.

[boosboss]

I guess last night was the first of many preludes to the night of hell many enjoy! I did hear that the ones in Nunhead were as a result of kids firing their fireworks at each other. :-S

[Sue]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I heartily recommend Ottery st Mary in Devon for

> bonfire night. Absolutely mental.

> Quite a long way

Ottery Saint Mary was one of the scariest things I've ever been to, massive bonfire storeys high, and burning tar barrels rolling down narrow streets, I thought I was lucky to get out alive :))

[EDOldie]

Try the Dulwich Sports Club in Burbage Road by railway bridge. V low key and child friendly, good bar with real ale in the clubhouse. Don't know the date this year but keep an eye out for posters. Just walkable from ED or get the 37 and walk up Burbage.

[Chantoozie]

there's usually a bonfire and fireworks display at Dulwich Cricket Club, on Burbage Road. they have BBQ, mulled wine, etc, and the setting is lovely. does anyone know if they're doing one this year, and if so, what date?

PS if anyone *doesn't* fancy a bonfire on November 5th, they can always come and hear me sing Upstairs @ the EDT on that night, instead. ;-)

[Chantoozie]

oops, didn't spot your post, EDOldie! but yes, I can definitely second that recommendation.

[Jah Lush]

EDOldie Wrote:

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> Try the Dulwich Sports Club in Burbage Road by

> railway bridge. V low key and child friendly, good

> bar with real ale in the clubhouse.

Now that takes me back. I used to go to these every year when I was a kid back in the 60s.

[EDOldie]

We might even have been there at the same time.

[Jah Lush]

Quite possibly. I grew up Pickwick Road, so it was nearby.

[Keef]

Did that used to be known as the DOSA Club or something like that?

[Jah Lush]

I don't think so Keef, basically it's Dulwich Cricket, Tennis and Squash Club. Alleyns Old Boys is in the next field.

[EDOldie]

No, DHOSA is the Dulwich Hamlet Old Scholars Association which used to meet in the Old Grammar School on the corner of Burbage and Gallery Road. I don't think they exist anymore. It was people who had been to Dulwich Hamlet Junior School in the Village. The Dulwich Sports Club is at the other end of Burbage.

[Keef]

Cheers for that. Remember being taken to events there when I was a kid, think my parents were members (not that either of them went to that school, but there you go).