5th November is popularly known as Bonfire Night, commemorating the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
At one village in the county the bells in the church are inscribed with seventeeth-century sentiments expressing relief at the failure of the papist conspiracy. These three bells are rung on the 5th of November in a special thanksgiving composition (not sure how far back this tradition goes - the earliest record is 1860 so might just be a Victorian invention). I had intended to go to the village tonight to hear the changes, but it's cold and it's raining and I have too much work to do...
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