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    around 50 Bronze Age burial barrows. Firle Bonfire Society is first mentioned in 1879 in a diary of the then vicar of Firle, Reverend Crawley, though it was...
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    Staplecross Bonfire Society Firle Bonfire Society Fletching Bonfire Society Hailsham Bonfire Society Hastings Borough Bonfire Society Hawkhurst Gang Bonfire Society...
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    featured on the front page of some national newspapers, as did the Firle Bonfire Society's 2003 choice of a gypsy caravan. In 2014 police investigated complaints...
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  • running theme in the 2000 Guy Ritchie film Snatch. In 2003 the Firle Bonfire Society burned an effigy of a family of gypsies inside a caravan after travellers...
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    Lewes (section Lewes Bonfire)
    notable features of the area include the Glyndebourne festival, the Lewes Bonfire celebrations and the Lewes Pound. The place-name 'Lewes' is first attested...
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  • societies by its reporting of an allegedly racist display at the nearby Firle bonfire night in 2003, where an effigy of a Gypsy family in a caravan was burned...
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    of the Bloomsbury Group, lived and worked at Charleston Farmhouse near Firle. Sussex also became a major centre for surrealism in the early 20th century...
    111 KB (11,657 words) - 16:41, 9 May 2024
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    giant or the actual outline of a giant's body that had been killed by the Firle Giant. Another giant was Gill, after whom Gill's Grave on Mount Caburn was...
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  • of effigies of Pope Paul V. In the 1950s the Cliffe Bonfire Society was banned from the Bonfire Council from taking part in the United Grand Procession...
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