"Mrs Dopamine dragged me to the one in Lewes a few years ago. They burn an effigy of an unpopular local or political figure every year. Ahem.. there are several competing bonfires in lewes, all with their own effigies "It all seemed a bit Mississipi Burning to me." This isn't helping is it?? My local bonfire crew (Waterloo) were the ones that made national news on the back of having Salmond Cliffe bonfire has a couple of Putins, one in a mankini It is all fairly intense, but as with Ottery tar barrels, it's good to see something so divorced from "regular" consumer culture once a year