Lindfield Bonfire Night

Welcome to Lindfield Life’s Lindfield Bonfire Night event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything bonfire and fireworks.

See also, Lindfield Bonfire Society

Lindfield will once again celebrate bonfire night on Tuesday 5th November 2024

Celebrating its 130th anniversary, a year of fundraising and planning by Lindfield Bonfire Society (LBS) culminates on Tuesday 5th November. Starting at 7.30pm outside The Stand Up Inn, the torchlit procession with the Guy goes through the village, heading eventually to the common. There the traditional bonfire prayer will be said, followed by the lighting of the bonfire and ending with a grand f irework display.

This year LBS is also commemorating the dismantling of the toll gates across the High Street 140 years ago. In 1884, Bonfire Boys helped with the dismantling and disposal – via the bonfire!

Various road closures will be in effect on the night from 6.30pm until 9.30pm. During this time, it will not be possible to use these roads with vehicles. Please do not attempt to drive through closed roads as you endanger the safety of pedestrians and will be reported to the authorities.

The event as usual is free to attend but on the night LBS holds a street collection in aid of local children’s charities. If every person that attended gave just £1 LBS would raise a phenomenal amount for its chosen charities. Scan the QR code to donate any amount.

For full details check the LBS Facebook page, and website (www.lindfieldbonfiresociety.co.uk). Information is also available in the 2024 Bonfire programme which is available from Cottenhams, The Stand Up, Sarah Lacey Dry Cleaning, The Witch, The Bent Arms, Lindfield Club, or from the LBS website for a minimum donation of £2. LBS regrets that as it gets nearer to the fifth, they may be unable to respond to specific queries as they will be busy preparing for the night.

If you are attending on the night, remember:
• Please do not bring sparklers or fireworks. It is illegal to light them in a public area
• Please do not pick up torches that have been discarded at the side of the road. Only Bonfire Society members, and invited societies are permitted to hold them
• Leave pets at home
• Bring your loose change to donate to our street collection. LBS also has the ability to donate digitally via SumUp QR codes, so there’s no excuse!
• Please take your litter home with you
• Please obey the directions of Marshals

And finally, have a fun and safe night! To make a donation to LBS to contribute to its costs of staging Lindfield’s Bonfire Night visit: https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QE6B1X4Z

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Lindfield Bowling Club Ladies raise over £1k

On a gloriously sunny Saturday 1st August, the ladies of Lindfield bowling club, hosted by captain Vera Stevens, held a charity Ladies Captain’s Day in aid of Breast Cancer Now.
     Twelve teams from all over Sussex attended, dressed in pink for the charity. Following a light lunch, they played in five different challenges with the overall winner being the ladies of St Francis bowling club. Over the course of the day players had the opportunity to buy tickets for the raffle, lucky dip, plant pot auction, jewellery sale and a chance to win a bottle of champagne.
     Following the game, they sat down to a superb meal prepared by a team of ladies from the club. Following speeches and prizes, they also had the opportunity to bid for homemade cakes provided by club members. Tese actions gave the club a grand total of over £1k for the Breast Cancer Now charity.
     On Sunday morning, 2nd August, the club hosted the annual fun event with The Lindfield Club. This raised £265 for St Peter’s and St James Hospice. Earlier in the season Men’s Captain’s Day raised £651 for their charity.

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Fundraising art sale - Lindfield Arts Festival

A prolific painter, creating abstract works in acrylic, oil and pastel as well as sketches and collages, Alex was also very knowledgeable and appreciative of other artists’ work, particularly early 20th century modern art.
     After being diagnosed with Dementia with Lewy Bodies in 2008, Alex continued to paint but as his condition deteriorated it brought his painting career to an end.
     “He was at home, confined to a chair and tragically no longer had the motivation or inspiration to paint, let alone hold a brush,” said Laura. “But he still talked a lot about his art and selling and exhibiting his paintings.”
     Following the death of his wife in 2013, Alex moved to a nursing home where he died in April, aged 82.
     “After the private family funeral, I felt I wanted to have some sort of memorial for him and started thinking about how I could ensure his work would live on,” said Laura.

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By Claire Cooper
     Fans of abstract art can pick up an original painting and help raise money for Dementia UK at a unique exhibition at this year’s Lindfield Arts Festival.
     Laura Morgan, from Haywards Heath, will be exhibiting and selling the work of her late father, Alex Wilson, who died earlier this year. It will be a fitting tribute to the Eastbourne artist, from the daughter he lost contact with for many years. 
     Laura explained that the family became estranged following her parents’ divorce. “It was only many years later, when I moved to Sussex, that we got back in touch,” Laura recalled.
      “We rebuilt our relationship as adults and found we had much in common, including a shared love of art. I remember as a child he used to sketch a lot but I don’t think he got into art seriously until he reached his sixties.”
     On moving to Eastbourne, Alex set up his own art studio and began to exhibit his work. He also ran a jewellery shop with his wife and became an expert on coins, publishing a well respected coin guide.
     “Alex was an intelligent man; a former chess champion who also enjoyed tennis, cricket and yoga,” said Laura. “He was fit, enthusiastic and full of character, always telling awful jokes!”