Eamonn Holmes column: Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes' night but which one is witch?(Features)

From: Sunday Mirror (London, England) | Date: October 31, 1999| Author: Holmes, Eamonn | Copyright information

HALLOWE'EN used to be ours - now it's not. I always wondered as a child why, when it came to fireworks programmes we received on the television from England, they never referred to Hallowe'en?

They always signposted something called Guy Fawkes' night or bonfire night - doubly strange that, because we all knew that bonfire night happened in the middle of July.

Then there was that chant "Remember, Remember the 5th November".

All our fireworks had be...

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