Just wondering: any bonfires, Tony? I seem to recall there were always bonfires on Guy Fawkes Night. (But those probably disappeared about the same time as little urchins asking 'Penny for the Guy, sir?')
Life seems to have been more 'picturesque' then, though undoubtedly shorter, dirtier, and more full of diseases. Period dramas seem to have kept the 'picturesque' angle and lost the rest. *shrug*