Bonfire Night 1980 - Memories of Redcar

 

Back in the days when a bonfire wasn't a massive Health & Safety issue to be fenced off, roped off, sanitised, and warned against with the public kept at a minimum safe distance of about a mile away. People probably did fall into bonfires and perhaps some of them died - but dying was a part of growing up, back then.

 

If we didn't have a bonfire in the back garden, there was always one on the beach. A huge affair, built with antique furniture, usually close by the slip-way at Granville Terrace. Throwing bangers at each other and coming home smelling of smoke and cordite.

 

This bonfire is on the beach, beside Lifeboat Bank.