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Fun Facts - Lewes Bonfire Celebrations

July 6, 2011 at 18:42 by v

The figures below are very rough estimates on my part, and are not to be taken as gospel, but are there purely to give an idea of the size and scale of the Lewes Bonfire Celebrations.

There are six Lewes Bonfire Societies, out on the Fifth in Lewes, between them they will have around 3,500 members out on the night, and joining them there will be around 20 invited Bonfire Societies with around 500 members, then there will be around 18 Bands or Drum Corps with around 450 players. Which gives a total of 4,450 bodies in the ranks at a guess.

There will be around 450 police (Covered and Bareback) in attendance, around 200 St John/Ambulance personal in attendance, around 200 security staff and several fire crews on standby.

There will be at least 30,000 spectators on a week day bonfire night, but rising to around 60,000 if bonfire night falls on a Friday or Saturday, so bearing in mind that the population of Lewes is only about 17,000, that figure above is a lot of peoples for a small town.

There will be 30 plus processions during the night, intermingling with each other through the narrow streets of Lewes with the Bonfire Night Celebrations starting around 5.00 pm and finishing about 1am.

Around 26,000 torches will be burnt during the night, using the formula of 6.5 torches per person, which will have used around 2,000 gallons of paraffin for torch dipping.

Around 6,000 pints of fluid will be drunk by the Bonfire Society members alone, based on each one consuming three half pint cans or bottles of coke, beer or other poison, probably way out on this one!

Around £600,000 worth of Bonfire Costumes will be on display each taking between six to 12 months to make.

Six Firework Displays with around 20,000 spectators.

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