West End Village Bonfire (for the Queen's Birthday, 21/04/2016)
Channel: Adie Barrett's Dark & Dingy DES Corner
Date: 2016-05-01

The first bonfire event in West End Village, Surrey, to mark Queen Elizabeth the Second's 90th birthday celebrations.  Parish Councillor John Medhurst was given the honour to light it.  

It was good to see my friend Howard after quite a long gap, and it is he who supplies most of the extremely loosely-termed running commentary here and there.

The bonfire looked a bit of a hastily thrown-together pile of wood, pallets and fence panels, however it gave off a lot of direct heat for some time and was still going a few hours later into the night.  By then all had long gone home and a metal fence kept it protected into the night.  So many turned up for the celebrations that the food and drink was heavily over-subscribed and fresh supplies were hurriedly bought in.  That said, it was good to watch such an event being so well supported.

Music used - "Spiritual Warrior" by timbeek.com, used under the terms of the Creative Commons License