Bonfire night on Ham Common was wonderful. The locals used to start building the bonfire at the beginning of November or even before and people used to take down an enormous pile. They would take their fireworks down and everybody got together. Everybody from the village went down there on Bonfire Night and had great fun and then people started to come in from outside. “Let’s go down to Ham; they have a huge bonfire on the common”. There was a lot of trouble and so it was forbidden.  No more Ham Common bonfire. That was the end of that in about 1965, I think, something like that. But before that it used to be a real village event, like the fair.