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The East Sussex and Kent Bonfire traditions are a hangover from the lighting of beacons along the coast to warn of impending invasion or attack.
The original 'Bonfire Boys' were the lookouts who lit the beacons, and this has been conflated with the Fawkes tradition over the years. So that would put the origins at least as early as the Armada (1588), 17 years before the Gunpowder Plot.
The original 'Bonfire Boys' were the lookouts who lit the beacons, and this has been conflated with the Fawkes tradition over the years. So that would put the origins at least as early as the Armada (1588), 17 years before the Gunpowder Plot.