Memories of a Bonfire

Birdie086

Someone on the limerick thread was asking about leaving stuff out for bonfire.

The thread remended me of happy days.

Was reared in one the less desirable estates in town and bonfire was a MAJOR SOCIAL EVENT. There would big competition between the avenues as to who could have the biggest bonfire. From Christmas we would campaign like polititions getting plegdes of old beds, sofas etc anything at all. We would spend the week leading up gathering all this stuff and assembling the bonfire(at night stealing stuff from others bonfires etc). Bear in mind none of this was superivsed by adults. I remember on year an old man gave us a big old telly. Recommended for major fire works!!!!
Distinctly remember bawling one year cos it was my brothers first holy communion the following morning and we werent allowed go cos my ma was afraid she wouldnt be able to scrub the smell of bonfire of us the next moning!!!
Happy Days

Just wandering do any of the folks round here have memories?

Holsten

Yep, very similar to yours.

I love Halloween.

papajimsmooth

Me and my mates used to sneak around and burn down the bonfires a day early. Ahh good times.

Shacklebolt

We always had the bonfire at the summer solstice... Good old West of Ireland, we're still doing things the way the ancient celts did :pac:

Birdie086

We had ours on May Eve, great start to the summer, the green used to be wrecked for months afterwards though

Gavin "shels"

Halloween bonfires in Dublin.:cool: Remember the good oul days (only 2 years ago) collecting for it, but we'd only do it the week before because the knackers from the flats and the one time the scum from New St. used to try raiding us, flats always got there way (usually about 50 of them and 20 of us 2 years ago it got nasty, bricks thrown, fists thrown, etc...), but the one time New St. tried it about 4 years ago, well they went home after being bashed with crutches, trolleys, locks, and God knows what else.

seanybiker

We made a deadly one years ago that we could walk inside and it had a little camp in it. We didnt want to light it then ha ha.
One of me neighbours wrecked our buzz by telling us that we built it directly under electricity cables ha ha.

biko

Ah, Eleventh night. Great times.