Popery put to the torch
WE have become accustomed to the entrenched Catholic versus Protestant face-off in the North, complete with marching bands and ostentatious flag-waving as each culture claims primacy.
However, there is another location outside these shores where the tradition is alive and well. Near the south coast of England, the town of Lewes in Sussex, (former prison domicile of the notorious Kray twins), hosts up to 80,000 spectators and 3,000 participants annually, in commemoration of the crushing of the Gunpowder Plot by Guy Fawkes and other Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605.
