Saturday, September 22, 2018

SOUTH STREET BONFIRE SOCIETY


SOUTH STREET JUVENILE BONFIRE SOCIETY

LEWES, SUSSEX COUNTY, ENGLAND

Otis Smith, the nine term Mayor of Lewes, Sussex County,

Delaware, the owner Fish Products Company at Lewes, is also the

Honorary Vice President of the South Street Juvenile Bonfire Society,

of Lewes, Sussex County, England, which sits 8 miles inland from

the English Channel resort of Brighton.

Three years ago Mr. Smith on a visit to attend a 700th anniversary

celebration of the “Battle of Lewes” , when the English King, Henry III,

was defeated by Simon de Monfort's rebel cavalry on the 24th of May,

1264, became acquainted with the “Bonfire Societies”, famous all over
England for the “Guy Fawkes Day”, 5th of November, 1605, celebratons

to remember the attack with a ton of explosive on the House of Lords.

Abstract: 09/22/18 By Harrison H from Wilmington News Journal ,
Thursday, October 12, 1967


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