Guy Fawkes Night: Tyre Raids, Bonfire Battles and the Worst Guy Ever

Before health and safety, before helicopter parenting, there was Guy Fawkes Night in 1960s Swansea. For anyone outside the UK wondering what any of this is about: in 1605 a Catholic man named Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament and got caught before he could light the fuse. Fawkes was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered, rather than burned at the stake, as the bonfire tradition…