FIREWORK night in Malvern was a bit of a damp squib a hundred years ago, according to the Malvern Gazette.
The paper described the day as "chiefly remarkable for the absence of Guys and the prevalence of fog".
"In the evening there were a few bonfires lighted in the gardens of houses in North Malvern and the Link, and one could here the sound of crackers here and there.
"Of late years, the anniversary has been falling more and more into oblivion in the majority of places, and the few towns that really celebrate Guy Fawkes' Day on anything like a demonstrative scale can now be counted on the one hand," reported the Gazette.
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