"My wife and I were in London a few years ago during the Guy Fawkes holiday. Obnoxious kids roaming the streets come up to you and demand "a penny for the Guy!""
I cant remember the last time I saw a kid in London do that Glander, did they actually have a Guy or just demand money?
Back in the 60s we would make a Guy out of old clothes stuffed with newspaper and lean him against a wall by a tobaconist or off-license, all the kids made Guys, bodies everywhere, looked like the day after armageddon.
And the fireworks, the following morning on my paper-round the streets were literaly littered with rockets, guess fireworks were cheap back then, you see nothing like that now.
Best firework we had was made by a friend with an engineering bent, we were about 13 at the time, it was made from metal rather than paper, and then packed with the gunpowder from very many rockets, actually it was crap thinking about it, it sort of shot up so fast and just seemed to keep on going.