Lewes Bonfire picture extravaganza
Legions of Bonfire boys and girls from Borough, Cliffe, Commercial Square, Southover, South Street and Waterloo created the spectacular sights and sounds which make Lewes' November 5 celebrations unique.
The prize for cheekiest set-pieces has to go to Commercial Square who produced an effigy of Superintendent Clff Parrott, who controversially attempted to ban bangers during the procession, with a firework stuck up his bottom.
Cliffe also courted controversy with an effigy of a seagull, in protest to Brighton and Hove Albion's proposed move to Falmer.
Given the large number of Brighton FC fans in Lewes this always seemed likely to split opinion and Albion supporters could be heard shouting out the club's unofficial chant of Seagulls just seconds before the poor bird was blown to smithereens.
South Street opted for a less controversial approach and instead produced a Beatles tableau which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the release of the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Waterloo's created a traditional tableau which represented the six protestant martyrs who went to their deaths 400 years ago, Borough also plumped for tradition but with a far more belligerent figure of Guy Fawkes who stuck two fingers up to the Establishment.
And last, but not definitely not least, Southover not only created some fantastic 'enemies of bonfire' but also celebrated its first year at its new bonfire site at the end of Cockshut Road.
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