“Remember, remember, the 5th of November”

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Thus starts the first line of a popular rhyme that is often quoted on the eve of Guy Fawkes Night. Many English speaking countries celebrate the failure of an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London on the evening of November 5th, 1605. Usually the celebrations include fireworks and bonfires in which a dummy of one of the most famous conspirators, Guy Fawkes (wikipedia.org), is burnt. If we are not mistaken the car in the watercolour (Click for enlargement) is a Morris 12, series III of 1937 vintage, but don’t throw us on the bonfire if we have it wrong :-) (Watercolour by F.T. Steerwood; collection John Steerwood sr.) (RB)

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