Remember, remember: From Wittenberg to Westminster

I’ve always liked fireworks night. When I was growing up, we’d have a fireworks display in the back garden. There’d be rockets, sparklers and, of course, a variety of fireworks.

The most memorable times were when the fizzing, spinning Catherine wheel fell from the bird table and wreaked havoc over the lawn… Happily, this was an annual event!

Then in 2020 I married a Lewes girl. And I discovered that every 5 November there is the most spectacular fireworks display I’ve ever seen. But not only that, for one night of the year only, the town is marked by strange signs, denouncing Popery and hailing the legacy of three Protestant martyrs killed in Lewes many years ago.