I went to Lewes bonfire in thd late '90's and early 00's. Need to get back there again!❤😊

Excellent 👏👏

Lewes Bonfire 2023 Tweedy Outdoors love louis shirley

I love it for its freedom.as we have less year on year.

The sound of the band playing "Sussex by the Sea" made me smile :)

Awesome - What an excellent video. I remember as a child in the early 1970s going to Cliff's Bonfire, and watching effigies of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips on a Horse, being put on the Bonfire, along with the Pope. Shame it is so difficult to get into Lewes to watch these days.

The parade, bonfire, night sky, and sunrise were amazing!

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Yes I really enjoyed it, and am very glad I stuck it out until the end this year (I only really saw the parade bit last year).

The House at 6:05 was Bull House. Famous as the home of Thomas Paine who was a key influence on the American War of Independence.

A massive Hunt 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 love it, well done Lewes and big thank you Tweedy for sharing 😊

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes I love Lewes, they have a very strong sense of independence and a long tradition of making their feelings about figures of authority well known.

Thanks for the nice video. It is great to see the old traditions being kept alive and I hope they may continue. Your camp must have been reasonably stealthy to have evaded the strange men. Also well done in capturing the sunrise. 👍

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Ysgolgerlan! Yes tradition is clearly very important to the people of Lewes. What I particularly liked about it was the old fashioned approach to health and safety! I can't imagine very much of that being allowed on the streets of London.

Wow ! What a stunning morning walk John. It captured all the beauty of the South Downs and the sunset and sky vistas were so beautiful. We are so lucky to live here and this video reminded me to look up and appreciate a little more often 😃👍

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Giles! I agree the South Downs is a very special part of the world. Lovely to hear from you!

A lovely film capturing the spirit of the event., I really must get back to the South Downs myself sometime soon. I'd have been tempted to pitch in the Presidential suite just for the fun of it !

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Alas I forgot to bring a drill to get the tent pegs in.

I always go but this year I have covid thanks for a quick edit

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Oh no sorry to hear that Iain! Hope you get well soon.

Speaking as a local who's great grandfathers name is proudly but sadly on the towns war memorial, the best part of bonfire is not the main procession. Although I've seen it most years it's become a mecca for idiots and tourists alike. Half of them don't even know why they are there if only to get pissed like it's some kind of mardi gras party. Luckily for us when the mobs have returned to their university campuses and London dwellings we join our relevant societies at their headquarter (pubs generally) and that's when the true spirit of Bonfire is celebrated. The mini roundabout outside the Kings Head gets a right hammering with rookies let me tell you. The best part of my year always.

got yourself a great place \o/

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Yes I love Lewes, it's not just the access to all that fantastic countryside but the town has such an independent spirit, not to mention great beer and also some of my favourite vineyards nearby!

Mr Tweedy Sir. Where can I buy a packet or two of that "TRUFFLES AND CHEESE" mixed type stuff you had and gave top marks too. Thank you so much. I enjoyed your video. Well done. I couldn't hear much of what you said: But what about if you got one of those mics that fix on your head and have a little round wind sock on the end. If you cant get one, I'll have a word with a top engineer, who works for that well known spelling typed error. The B.B.B.C. I'm sure he will have one in his little box of tricks. I think that would do the trick on your voice fading in and out on your voice over's. If your going to speak over on the film, then I think it would be nice if you could do it right, and we could all hear your tones. Don't you think so too. Regards from me. One of your top watchers. James Varney.🙂 Hope to hear from you soon.

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Yes, sorry, I am aware the audio is often far from perfect in my videos, but there isn't an easy fix. For what it's worth, quite a lot of this video is really just about the processions. In those parts there is a bit of background mumbling from me and my friend because we happened to be chatting as we were watching the procession, but it wasn't intended to be part of the "narrative" of the video. You certainly weren't missing anything of any importance if you couldn't hear those bits well! Audio is challenging, the camera I use (a GoPro) has a built in microphone which works reasonably well in ideal circumstances, but certainly isn't a professional bit of sound equipment. Nor am I a professional videographer (or audiographer, whatever the equivalent is there!). The front facing built-in microphone seems to do a reasonable job when I am pointing the camera at myself at short range and there isn't much background noise. It's less good when I'm behind the camera, and/or there is anything else adding noise. On this particular occasion I was also anticipating bad weather, so I had the wind noise reduction setting on the camera switched on the whole time. That probably got in the way a bit too. I have looked at external microphones but unfortunately there isn't a simple solution for doing that with my current camera. It ends up requiring adapters and dangly cables and multiple extra gizmos. It would rather change the whole experience of filming - currently the GoPro is something I can stuff in a jacket pocket, pull out when I want to film a few seconds of video, then stuff back in a pocket again. Filming doesn't really interrupt the flow (or enjoyment!) of whatever I happen to be doing. It just requires a single button to start recording and a single button to stop. If the camera had all the extra bells and whistles attached to it required to have an extra microphone that style of filming wouldn't really work any more. I will keep looking into it, and if I can find an external microphone system which is better streamlined I will definitely consider it!

Enjoyed the footage of the procession and your walk to Hassocks. The men in the woods sound a bit dodgy.

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Rob, glad you enjoyed it! My guess is those guys were doing the same thing I was - improvising given the lack of accommodation / public transport when Lewes Bonfire is on.

Now I know there is a thing called a Lewes Bonfire. Read the Wikipedia entry and it has an interesting history. Curious about the campsite. Do you have to get some sort of permission to be there?

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

It's a grey area about which whole books have been written! On land designated as "Open Access Land" in England you're not required to stick to the paths, and there are no hours of day restrictions or explicit time limits for how long you can remain there. So you're perfectly entitled to sit down and have a picnic, or equally to sit up at night to stargaze. I'm personally of the view that if you cause no damage, leave no trace of your visit, be discreet, and don't spoil the enjoyment of any other users of that land, then there's nothing wrong in engaging in outdoor recreation overnight on areas of land like that.

@JEFFERYSJOHNSON

7 ай бұрын

@@tweedyoutdoors Thats pretty cool. I used “the Google” on Open Access Land and ZERO shows up from the US on that. The question came to me when you walked past livestock. I don’t think ranchers tend to be fond of people walking amongst their livestock. Probably with good reason, if you taunt a bull here and it plows over you then that rancher is probably going to be visited by lawyers for the dearly departed. :-) Next trip by one of the outdoors stores here I’ll ask them if there are any laws of that nature.. Thanks Again!

*Tweedy* "Even the road looks picturesque here" *Me* A TR7 would help with that, sir. I'm not evan a car guy.

The bonfire was small. Compared to July ones in Ulster anyway. However the whole aura around the event is amazing

@UpinsmokeXI

7 ай бұрын

That is just one bonfire out of the 7 scattered around the town. IF you see the town from above during Lewes bonfire it looks like the whole town is on fire it's absolutely amazing and there is nothing else like it anywhere in the world

TRUFFLESSS AND CHEESE PLEASE. WHERE CAN I BUY IT

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Ah sorry I forgot to answer that bit! Are you asking about the cheese in the "Tagliatelle with Truffle Cheese in the Woods" video? It's called "Kinara Al Tartufo" and I bought it from Eataly in London. It's very close to Liverpool Street station.

@jamesvarney2654

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the information. While I'm at it. Do you know there is a petition going the rounds to stop and save Liverpool Street Station and it's wonderful Victorian station roof from being destroyed by knocking down the station shed roof and to start building offices; and a hotel and car parking area there. All over it. There is a petition on "KZread" for people to sign and donate a little bit of cash to help spread the word. I expect one day, they will wont to build a tower block on top the South Downs, and a underground station under the South Downs if they could get away with it. It seems the money is there, in a big pot in a bank vault just waiting to be spent.on such things. I hope you will take a look at it. The next thing they will be wanting to knock down and build flats on Harvey's brewery. God;I would have to take up arms if they did that. But it makes you think; Dose it not?. Oh and I must tell you that we have a local brewery here in Reigate in a Higgledy Piggledy old court yard with lots of old tabels and chairs and benches in a sort of barn building. The beer is wonderful to. It's a sort of Guinness tasting and looking beer. it's a real smashing drop of stuff. If your ever tramping along the North Downs you should pop into the pub that we have in our town. It's right at the end of the high street on the left through an arch as you walk towards Dorking. It's only open Thursday through to Sunday 2.30 to 11.00. But it's worth waiting for it to open. Well it's a grotty day today and I've stayed in because of the rain. I'm going downstairs in a minute to light my wood burner and cook something for lunch/come tea time Sausage and mash, with minced cheese and baked beans all mixed up together. And a dollop of H.P. Sauce Yum Yum Sincerely Yours DimmyJimmy@indoorstodayasitsraining@@tweedyoutdoors

That was splendid. Something subversive about that festival and your choice of music gave it a nice edgy feel. It stirred something positively pre-Victorian in me! Horrible experience for you with the ‘men’ lurking about. Hope you’ve caught up on the lost sleep.

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

The Sussex motto "we wunt be druv" is writ large at Lewes Bonfire and they stalwartly refuse to change how they do things in the face of modern sensibilities (for example health and safety). It was quite inspiring to see such a fiercely independent display of local culture, although I get the sense they don't particularly want outsiders to attend. As for the lurking men, it's just the reality of wild camping, which is on the face of it a ridiculous pastime, but an itch I can't seem to fully scratch. Something about a thirst for freedom I suppose? The men probably meant no harm, were just enjoying being outdoors late at night as I was, and may have been unaware I was even there.

@WC21UKProductionsLtd

7 ай бұрын

@@tweedyoutdoors yes I was struck by the 'health and safety' aspect of the festival - with those barrels of fire being dragged down the road! It looked fabulous and felt very English. Quite tempted to attend this one year now. Full admiration for you and the wild camping. I think you're very brave. As you walked up to your camping spot in the dark, I did think to myself, no way would I do that!

You weren't supposed to be there! Outsiders were banned I thought, that's why I stayed away.

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Not banned, just discouraged, and it's quite difficult to get there on the day if you're not local. There were no trains arriving in Lewes after 3pm, and most of the roads around the town closed at 4pm. Accommodation is also practically impossible to book unless you book months in advance. My friend really lucked out with a last minute cancellation. On this occasion, probably thanks to the bad weather, a lot of people did stay away, and it didn't seem dangerously overcrowded to me at any point. It was easy to book a ticket for the Lewes Borough Bonfire Society firesite online, they didn't check that you were a Lewes resident or anything. One pub did turn us away and say they were only admitting bonfire society members that evening, but other pubs (including the Lewes Arms) were still open to everyone, albeit some just sold beer through a window. Next year I believe it'll fall on a Tuesday - they only move it to Saturday when the 5th falls on a Sunday. So I think that will probably also discourage a lot of out-of-towners.

@Homemade.candlesandcrafts

7 ай бұрын

I'm from Lewes and have been part of bonfire my whole life. Outsiders are never banned we just don't encourage them to come into the town.

@quercus8833

7 ай бұрын

I'm in Hastings, we had all the different (Sussex) bonfire societies turn up (as they do each year which you probably are aware of) including Lewes for our procession, bonfire and firework display it's quite an impressive night so I had my fill.@@Homemade.candlesandcrafts

I am not a fan of all the people giggling at you 😢

@tweedyoutdoors

7 ай бұрын

Thanks, but it's fine! I think it still looks a bit odd to many people when they see someone vlogging in public. Lewes has a particularly strong local identity and they're inclined to poke fun at "DFLs" (people who are Down From London), particularly on an occasion like Bonfire Night, which many people in Lewes see as purely a Lewes thing for Lewes people. I love Lewes, and find their independent spirit really inspiring: maybe you've heard the Sussex motto "we wunt be druv" (we won't be told what to do). Nowhere in Sussex exemplifies that more than Lewes. So I think I'd actually be disappointed if I went there and they weren't at least a bit frosty to outsiders like me!