Barnstaple Fireworks Display, Fathom Chivenor with Barnstaple Round Table and RMB Chivenor

Barnstaple fireworks display upholds the tradition of bonfire night which started 400 years ago. Every Year Barnstaple Round Table holds an extravaganza of Fireworks and a BIG bonfire to celebrate the capture of the gunpowder conspiritors. On November 5, 1605, a solitary figure was arrested in the cellars of Parliament House. Although he first gave his name as John Johnson, a startling series of events gradually unfolded under torture. Guy Fawkes, as he was really called, was one of thirteen who had conspired to blow up the parliament, the King, and his Lords, thereby throwing the country into turmoil, out of which these traitors hoped to raise a new monarch, sympathetic to their cause, and return England to its Catholic past.

	The annual Barnstaple Round Table firework display attracts as many as 6000 people every year and raises thousands of pounds for charity. This year the event will be held at the Barnstaple Rugby Club, Mill Road. Barnstaple fireworks display upholds the tradition of bonfire night which started 400 years ago. Every Year Barnstaple Round Table holds an extravaganza of Fireworks and a BIG bonfire to celebrate the capture of the gunpowder conspiritors. On November 5, 1605, a solitary figure was arrested in the cellars of Parliament House. Although he first gave his name as John Johnson, a startling series of events gradually unfolded under torture. Guy Fawkes, as he was really called, was one of thirteen who had conspired to blow up the parliament, the King, and his Lords, thereby throwing the country into turmoil, out of which these traitors hoped to raise a new monarch, sympathetic to their cause, and return England to its Catholic past. Sunday 2nd November 2008 Gates open from 6pm click anywhere to continue