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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