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Guy Fawkes Night, often called Bonfire or Firework Night, is an annual evening of fireworks and bonfires held across the country. People love to wrap up warm, in scarves and woolly hats, and head out with loved ones to ‘ooh’ and ‘aaah’ at the colourful displays.

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It marks the failure of the Gunpowder Plot on November 5 1605, when a group of embittered Catholic conspirators planned to blow up parliament and kill the Protestant King James
Although the plot was masterminded by Robert Catesby, and involved many other conspirators, Guy Fawkes is synonymous with the event as he was the one caught in the cellar below the House of Lords with 36 barrels of gunpowder. Effigies of Guy, wearing his distinctive tall black hat, are often burned on bonfires.
Most of the plotters were eventually captured, forced to confess, and hanged, drawn and quartered at the Tower of London as a lesson to others. Guy actually escaped this torturous fate by jumping to his death first.
Guy Fawkes Night is still celebrated today in recognition that had the Gunpowder Plot been successful, it would have changed the course of British history.

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The day before the holiday, local children walk down the street begging for money "for Guy," which they then use to buy firecrackers and other incendiary weapons.
Every year before Guy Fawkes Night, security guards conduct a traditional search of the parliament building to find potential arsonists, but it feels more like a ceremony than a serious event.

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In London, during the Guy Fawkes Night festival, all the residents of the city come out into the street for a festival of fireworks and bonfires, sparklers, and parades. Often the townspeople make a straw effigy of Guy Fawkes in his characteristic tall black hat (and sometimes of contemporary political figures) in advance, which is then burned to the delight of everyone around them. Many people use the pretext of the bonfire festival to burn trash in the garden, which is very relevant at the end of autumn.

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November 5 every year. However, depending on which day of the week it falls, firework displays may take place the weekend before or after.

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Meanwhile in London, Alexandra Palace hosts a Fireworks Festival, with an enormous display lighting up the city’s iconic skyline, a magical parade, music and even a German beer festival. But there are plenty more, from Battersea Park Fireworks by the River Thames to Lambeth Fireworks, which are themed each year.

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Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated across the UK, from village greens to entire towns.
Sussex, in Southeast England, has a strong bonfire tradition, with many places putting on elaborate events. Lewes perhaps holds the most famous celebration, with separate Bonfire Societies all hosting bonfires with their own special customs. They wear differently coloured striped jumpers and process down the medieval High Street. Humerous effigies of public figures are burnt each year, usually with some topical relevance.

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In Southwest England, Ottery St Mary, Devon, also has a unique celebration. They set tar barrels alight, and carry them on their shoulders through the town. No one is exactly sure where this specific practice comes from, but at one point many other towns and villages would have rolled lit barrels down the streets.