r I.. ^ 4_^ 1J-- 1 . '"I ■ 1- -, ■ . ' 1 ■ ' 1. ' i I*. f ■ 1 ; ) " Wo v die !))Qrt h BIG CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY THE WORDSWORTH COLLECTION The original of tliis book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924104095884 The Book 0*/ the Coronation Bonfires • ENTEEED AT STATIONERS' HALL His Majesty King* Georg-e V. Photo Ijy AV. & D. Do^viiey Londou Whitehaven Bonfire, the tallest in the Kingdom, THE BOOK OF THE Coronation Bonfires COMPILED AND EDITED BY THE REV. CANON RAWNSLEY, M.A HON. SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL BONFIRE COMMITTEE WITH NEARLY 100 ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED AT 1/- NET, OR 1/3 POST FREE CARLISLE CHARLES THURNAM AND SONS II ENGLISH STREET 1911 L > ^-Pv ~-i> — a- 7 ^ PREFATORY NOTE. The whole Bonfire movement was the outcome of loyalty to the Throne, and it is a source of satisfaction to know that His Gracious Majesty the King, to whose notice this record of the Coronation Bonfires had been brought, allows it to be stated that he is interested in the intended publication. The Committee thank the Times and the Spectator for allowing reprints of articles to appear, and acknowledge their indebtedness to the local Bonfire Secretaries, who by sending facts and photographs have made this publication possible. My own thanks are due to all my co-secretaries, W. R. Campion, Esq., M.P., H. M. Cadell, Esq., J. M. Mc.Calmont, Esq. M.P., T. H. W. Idris, Esq., F. W. S. McLaren, Esq., M.P., G. H. Mil ward, Esq., and to other helpers, R. W. Greensmith, Esq., Major Herbert Neve, Charles E. Baker, Sir John Barran, M.R, Major E. W. Morrison Bell, M.P., John Ainsworth Esq., M.P. ; in this connection I should wish specially to mention the great help given me by Colonel Cadell, who organized the Bonfires throughout Scotland, and by his Bonfire Ballad for the Scouts enlisted their sympathy in the movement. Thanks are also due to my friend Dr. J. G. Bartholomew for his gift of a map, specially adapted for the chronicling of the Bonfires. Last, but not least, I wish to put on record the indefatigable help and constant care given to the work by my Secretary, Miss Broatch. It has not been an easy matter to cope with all the correspondence involved, and for the errors that have unavoidably crept in T must ask the indulgence of my readers. We have been unable to locate three Bonfires, because names were not sent with the photographs. In some cases the illustrations are not very clear, as the photographs showed lack of definition, owing, no doubt, to the bad weather and diflSculties under which they were taken. Our record cannot pretend to be exhaustive. We have only been able to chronicle those Bonfires that were notified to us, or were mentioned in the press. Any errors in the record should be signified to me. H. D. RAWNSLEY, Crosthwaite Vicarage, Keswick. cC, I vc\ The Coronation Bonfires, I^^^ HE meaning of the word "bonfire" is something of a puzzle. ^j What is certain is that Dr. Johnson's definition of it in 1756, from the French word " bon," is incorrect. Up till 1760 It ^^^^^^ was generally written " bonefire," and Skeat tells us that it owes its origin to the word '^bane" or "bone," and meant a fire of bones — a martyr fire. The earliest derivation we find of it is in the " Catholicum Anglicum," under date 1483, where the word " banefire " is explained as " Ignis Ossium." That this word " bonefire " is the origin of the word " bonfire " is corroborated by the fact that up to the year 1800, in Hawick, old bones were collected throughout the tow^n for the midsummer bonfire. Whether originally the bonfire got its name from its use as a pyre at funeral times and afterwards connoted the martyr's fire we cannot certainly tell ; but it is not impossible that, in the first instance, the bonfire was, as the fires of Tophet and Hinnom at Jerusalem were, the fire for the destruction of all refuse outside the city gates. There are those who believe that the word " bain " or " baen " or " ban " fires meant in the early Celtic tongue simply the hill fires connected with sun-worship, and that the Beltane fires were the latest survivals of British sun-worship on the heights. It is quite certain that in Roman times fires were lit not only in honour of the sun, but in honour of the shepherds' goddess, Pales. The Palilia of Ovid's " Fasti " remind us of this fact, and as part of the ceremony in those old days, shepherds leapt through the bonfires. We find the Church in the seventh and eighth centuries doing what it could to suppress these bonfire festivals. Thus the third Council of Constantinople commanded fires that were lit before shops or houses, "through which people leapt ridiculously," to cease; and the Synodus Francica of Pope Zachary, in the year 742, forbade the sacri- legious fires called " Kedfri."* These ** need-fires " have continued in the North of England within living memory. The writer has spoken with * It is asserted that Nedfri or Nodfru fires meant originally fires obtained by the friction of rubbing of wood against wood. 5 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, farmers in Cumberland and Westmorland who in a time of cattle plague have not only seen the " need-fire '' carried from farm to farm, but cattle driven through the smoke to stop the murrain. One other derivation should be mentioned. It is held by some that the word '' bon " was a shortened form of the word '' boon," and that a " boon " fire was nothing more or less than a fire to which all who came brought some contribution in the way of fuel. Last, we have the derivation from the Danish " bann," which seems to mean a beacon — the bonfire was a beacon-fire. Whilst philologists are deciding the correct derivation of the word, it sufiices us to remember that from time immemorial the beacon-fire has been used to speed the message of war at the gates, or the tale of triumph or disaster. It was by fire the Argive Queen learned that Troy had fallen, it was fire that flew from Susa to Ecbatana in 24 hours and roused the Persian kings. It was the beacon light upon the hills that told Athens of the enemy's approach in the days of Thucydides ; and in our own Elizabeth's time, as Macaulay has sung for us, from south to north flew the fierce courier-flame to warn Great Britain of the Armada's approach. The beacon system for watch and ward was slowly developed from the time of Henry III. In 1403 it was made statutory, while in 1455 a complete system of signalling was enacted for Scotland to prevent surprise by English invaders. Thus, one " bale " or faggot was used as a warning; two '' bales " to say that the enemy were coming indeed ; and four " bales " blazing beside each other that the foe was in force. But these beacon-fires were not only used as a warning against the foe, but as a friendly light to mariners. In the thirteenth year of Elizabeth, 1565, all seaboard beacons were placed by Act of Parliament under the control of the Masters, Wardens, and Assistants of Trinity House. Here and there upon our coasts may still be seen the two up- standing posts and the iron basket which did duties since taken over by the lighthouses. And still, near the Border, a stone-built beacon, as at Penrith, remains to us ; but since 1745 there has been no use for it. 6 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Bonfires long before the time of Shakespeare were used as signals of rejoicing. Five times out of the seven that Shakespeare speaks of bonfires, he speaks of them as so used. When news of the victory of Agincourt reached England, bonfires and dances were ordained in every town, city, and borough, and many times since E-ichard the Plantagenet gave ordersj Ring bells aloud ; burn bonfires clear and bright To entertain great England's lawful king. our hill tops and village greens '^ have spread glad tidings with their tongues of flame. '^ A Retrospect. In 1887, Queen Victoria's Jubilee year, the first organized attempt was made to signalize the day of rejoicing by beacon-fires throughout the land. Colonel Milward, M.P., of Worcestershire, used the Malvern heights as a starting point to send the fiery cross of rejoicing north, south, east, and west. If Macaulay's ballad was in the mind of Colonel Milward as he organised bonfires in the Midlands with the Malvern Beacon for their centre, the same poem was in the ears of Canon Eawnsley when he determined to rouse with the '' red glare of Skiddaw, the burghers of Carlisle." Not since 1815 had a bonfire been lit upon that ancient Cumbrian height. Then, as Southey has put on record, on a moonlit night he accompanied James Boswell, Lord Sundelin, Dorothy Wordsworthj William Wordsworth, and his son, and with a great crowd of Keswick folk shouted " God save the King " round the most furious body of fiaming tar barrels that he ever saw. It was not only round the bonfire that Southey and his friends danced and shouted that night in honour of Waterloo, for Wordsworth, who was wearing a red cloak and looked like a Spanish don, had inadvertently kicked the kettle over which was needed for the making of more punch, and the Greta Hall contingent got round him, and, holding him a prisoner in their midst, punished him for his carelessness by singing in chorus, " 'Twas you that kicked the kettle down, 'twas you, sir, you." THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Canon E,awnsley, taking Skiddaw as his centre, organised tke bonfires in Cumberland, and witb the kelp of Mr. Cooper, of Monk Coniston, and Mr. Baddeley, of Windermere, the Lake Country heights north and south of Dunmail Raise answered one another as star to star. On June 22nd, 1887, those who climbed to Skiddaw top saw no fewer than 140 bonfires gleaming like diamond points on mountain height and littoral plain. Ten years later a more determined effort was made to organize the bonfire movement. After conference with Sir Matthew White Eidley, the Home Secretary — from whom it was ascertained that though the Queen, from personal considerations, could not allow any signal for lighting the fires to be made at any of the Royal seats, she wai: in sympathy with the movement — a meeting of friends was called at the House of Commons on April 8th, Lord Cranborne in the chair, and a repre- sentative Committee was appointed, with Colonel Milward, M.P., Canon Rawnsley, and Major F. C. Rasch, M.P., as Hon. Secretaries, and it was unanimously resolved that the Lord-Lieutenants and Chairmen of County Councils should be asked to invite their counties to co-operate in a national scheme for bonfire illuminations on Queen's night, June 22nd, 1897. The scheme was warmly taken up, and, though many bonfires did not report themselves, the committee in their final report were able to enumerate 2,548, of which nearly 2,000 were in England and the remainder in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the Channel Islands. The largest number of fires counted from any one point was seen from the Mendip Hills, where more than 200 were counted; 142 were counted from Broadway, in Worcestershire, and 132 were seen from the Malvern Beacon. How the bonfires were seen from Skiddaw was described in the papers at the time. On that occasion a " Lucal," or oil flare, was used upon the Coniston Old Man with great success. It is interesting to remember that the evening was so fine that only one bonfire was postponed, and that in the Isle of Man; and only one bonfire was fired before the time — this at Cleeve-Cloud. The story goes that the watchman told off to guard the great bonfire, which had been built up with great labour and material at the cost of £70, fell asleep, but, 8 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. dreaming tliat Jubilee night had come, woke to find his bonfire unlit, and incontinently put match to it. It is fair to say that the Cleeve-Clouders were equal to the occasion, and in their loyalty rebuilt the pile, and so did double honour to the Queen. At the time of King Edward's Coronation_, in 1902, a cenltral committee, with Lord Cranborne in the chair. Colonel Griffith Boscawen, M.P., Mr. G. A. Milward, son of the late Colonel Milward, and Canon Eawnsley, as co-secretaries, sent a similar circular and appeal to county and city authorities. Owing to the King's illness, the bonfires, which had been built in readiness for June 22nd, remained unlit till Sunday, June 29th. On that day telegraphic communication was sent by the Chairman from London, urging that all bonfires should be lighted on the following night, Monday, June 30th. The time given was too short to allow of a full response, for many bonfires had been partially dismantled, and arrangements had been made to make others the crowning feature of village entertainments, which could not possibly be prepared at such short notice, but 1,722 were chronicled at headquarters. THE CORONATION BONFIRES. The Coronation Bonfire Movsment, 1911. MEETIInTG of members and friends of tlie bonfire movement, convened unofficially in the House of Commons on March 21st this year, elected Lord Morpeth, now Lord Carlisle, to be their Chairman. They agreed to adopt the organisation of the previous occasions and to issue a similar circular ; and in order to lessen the labour of the Hon. Secretaries the United Kingdom was divided into districts, each with its own Secretary. London and the South were apportioned to Mr. W. R. Campion, M.P.; the Midlands to Mr. G. H. Milward; the North of England to Canon Eawnsley; Wales to Mr. T. H. W. Idris; Scotland to Col. H. M. Cadell; and Ireland to Colonel James M. Mc.Calmont, M.P. ; Mr. Eobert W. Greensmith undertook to help in Derbyshire, Major Herbert Neve in the Weald of Kent, Mr. Charles Baker in North Pembrokeshire, Mr. F. W. S. McLaren in Lincolnshire, Sir John Barran, M.P., in the West Riding of YorkshirCj Major E. W. Morrison Bell in Devonshire, and Mr. John Ainsworth, M.P., in Argyllshire. The same hour of lighting as before was adopted — viz., 10 p.m. south of the Border, 10-30 north of the Border — and it was suggested in the circular that where possible the boy scouts should be asked to co-operate, to which arrangement their headquarters readily agreed. 10 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, THE CIRCULAR. The Central Coronation Bonfires Committee. Chairman ... The Earl of Carlisle. Hon. Co-Secretaries. W. E. Campion, Esq., M.P. F. W. S. McLaren, Esq., M.P. H. M. Cadell, Esq. G. H. Milward, Esq. J. M. Mc.Calmont, Esq., M.P. Canon Eawnsley, T. H. W. Idris, Esq. Dear Sir, — A.i a meeting of members and friends of the movement, convened unofficially in the House of Commons on March 21st, a Central Committee was formed, of which the Earl of Carlisle (then Lord Morpeth) was elected Chairman, to enlist the sympathies of the Counties and Boroughs of Great Britain and Ireland and the Colonies in a Bonfire Scheme in honour of the Coronation of King George Y, on June 22nd, 1911. The following resolutions were passed: — General Committee. N'o. 1. — That a General Committee be appointed, with power to add to their number; the gentlemen above named to act as Honorary Co-Secretaries. Hour of Lighting. ISTo. 2. — That a circular be sent to the Lord-Lieutenants, Chairmen of County Councils, the Lord Mayors and Mayors, Lord Provosts, Provosts, and Conveners of Counties, inviting them to urge, through their respective bodies and the local press, or otherwise, that their Counties and Boroughs should co-operate, by forming Bonfire Committees, to fall in with the plan suggested of firing their bonfires simultaneously at 10 o'clock, Greenwich time, on Coronation day. Korth of the Border the hour to be 10-30 p.m., owing to the long light in the north. 11 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. It was pointed out that tlie bonfires, if properly constructed, would last well on towards midnight, and that the distance, especially to mountain heights, made 10 o'clock an hour quite late enough for the convenience of spectators, south of the Border. Signal Eockets. The Committee recommend that for England, Ireland, and Wales, a detonating rocket should be sent from any principal height at 9-55 to call attention; that at 10 o'clock a magnesium star rocket should be fired, to be followed by other rockets, the bonfires be lighted, and the National Anthem sung. Where possible, the hills should be specially illuminated at the same time with red, white, and blue coloured fires, in tins of 51bs. each for all the more important heights. For Scotland the same arrangements at 10-25 to 10-30. At 11 o'clock, when all bonfires will be a-light, it is hoped that a , bouquet of rockets will be sent up and the INTational Anthem be again sung. Eockets will probably be sent up at intervals till 11 o'clock; but this must be left to the discretion of local committees. A Caution. The Committee wish to caution the public against standing too near to leeward of the bonfire mass at the time of lighting if it has been saturated with parafiin ; the flame has been known to fly out as much as 150 feet, and the Committee are very anxious that no accident should mar the Coronation night. Fireworks. Special arrangements have been made with Messrs. James Pain & Son, by Eoyal Warrant Pyrotechnists to His Majesty the King, Mitcham, Surrey (Tel. address, '' Pain, Mitcham"), who offer to supply all Bonfire Committees, hona fide members of our National Bonfire Union, at a discount of 25 per cent, on all their rockets and coloured fires, and a further 15 per cent, reduction if the orders are sent to them on or before June 15th; also 15 per cent, on flambeaux. The order from each Bonfire Committee who wish to ensure this reduction in price must be accompanied by a card of introduction from our Central Committee. All who intend 12 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, to join in tlie Bonfire Scheme, and wish for introduction to Messrs. Pain, are asked to communicate as follows : — London, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Isle of Wight, and Channel Islands, with W. E. Campion, Esq., M.P., House of Commons, London, S.W. Monmouth, Gloucester, Oxford, Berks, Bucks, Herts, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridge, Bedford, Northampton, Hunts, Warwick, Worcester, Hereford, Salop, Stafford, Leicester, Rutland, Norfolk, Notts, with G. H. Milward, Esq., 40 Buckingham Palace Mansions, London, S.W. Cheshire, Yorks, Lancashire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland, and Isle of Man, with Eev. Canon Eawnsley, Crosthwaite Yicarage, Keswick. Scotland, with H. M. Cadeil, Esq., Grange, Linlithgow, N.B. Ireland, with Col. James M. Mc.Calmont, House of Commons. Wales, with T. H. W. Idris, Esq., 120 Pratt Street, Camden Town, London, N.W. The following also have kindly oft'ered to assist: — For Derbyshire, Robt. W\ Greensmith, Esq., Dalbury Lees, Derby; for the Weald of Kent, Major Herbert Neve, Pullington, Benenden, Cranbrook; for North Pembrokeshire, Charles E. Baker, Esq., 54 Parliament Street, Westminster, S.W. ; for Lincolnshire, E. W. S. McLaren, Esq., M.P., House of Commons, Westminster; West Hiding of Yorkshire, Sir John Barran, M.P. ; Devonshire, Major E. W. Morrison Bell, M.P.; Argyllshire, John Ainsworth, Esq., M.P. Hints fou the Building of Bonfires. The following hints as to the construction of bonfires may be useful : — Experience has shown that the taking of railway sleepers, tar, wood, and other materials to the tops of the greater heights for fuel is very costly, and that furze, whin bushes, thorns and faggots make a bright blaze but burn out too quickly, and are disappointing. It is suggested that, wherever possible by leave of the owner, peats should be dug at the nearest point to the summit. These, if cut thin and set up to dry without loss of time, in ordinary weather, should be ready for fuel by the 22nd June. They can be sledged up by a horse and gear a day or two before the l)uilding of the bonfire without much cost, and, if built with good air passages at the base communicating with a central chimney and saturated with a barrel uf paraffin or petroleum or creosote (use a water-can sprinkler 13 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. or long-liandled ladle), will burn with a steady fire for three or four hours. The diameter of the base must, of course, be determined by the amount of peat ready to hand. It has been found with a diameter of 12 feet and a height of 10 feet a very considerable body of fire is obtainable. The only caution needed is, that the peats should not be built solid^ but like open brickwork with interstices to allow air passage. If occasional layers of dried larch-cuttings or faggots can be interposed to give lightness to the mass, so much the better. Light from the top, and from time to time rake out the bottom flues with a larch pole to keep the air-ways clear. The cost of two bonfires thus constructed on Skiddaw was £20. To ensure the success of ordinary bonfires, all that is necessary is to keep a good air draught through the centre of the pile; to effect this, let short vertical posts be placed in the ground in a circle round a central pole, which may be 10ft. to 20ft. high, with which they must be connected by horizontal bars like the spokes of a wheel. The bonfire materials may be piled on to and round this staging. For the construction of larger bonfires up to 50ft. in height, full instructions, with illustrations, will be found in a pamphlet in verse, " A Bonfire Ballad for Boy Scouts," price 2d., published at the Boy Scouts' Scottish Headquarters, 1 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh. Alternative Light. On the most inaccessible heights it has been suggested that, instead of a bonfire, what is known as a " Flare " could be arranged for. The flare light on Coniston Old Man at the Diamond Jubilee was a great success; it shone out like a star. Mr. J. M. Mc.Murtrie, 212 West Eegent Street, Glasgow, will supply on hire '' Lucal'' lamps (weighing about 1 cwt.), fitted for one, two, or three flares from 10,000 to 20,000 candle power, at a cost of £7 per light, plus carriage each way. These flares will burn two hours. For fuller particulars as to amount of oil and water needed, address Mr. Mc.Murtrie, as above. Coloured lights, if used as at the Diamond Jubilee, on any church, cathedral, and town hall towers, should be burnt in iron buckets, to prevent all possibility of fire; so burned, safety is assured. N.B. — When used on mountain tops, burn them a little below the summit. 14 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. The Committee are extremely anxious that it should be known that they do not undertake to advise as to the cost of rockets, paraffin, or bonfire material ; nor have they any central fund from which to subsidise local subscriptions to cost of bonfires. We shall be very glad to hear as early as possible of any Bonfire Committees in your County or Borough who intend to join us, in order that an official record may be kept. Matters would be simplified if seme one person would act as local secretary for his County or Borough. We sincerely hope that the boy scouts may lend a hand not only in collecting material for the bonfires, but, when built, to prevent mis- chievous firing. The suggestion is approved by Headquarters, and has been inserted in their official giazette. We suggest that landowners and farmers, instead of allowing their workmen to burn fallen wood, tree and hedge clippings, should keep them for use on Coronation day. It will much facilitate the keeping of a record if correspondents who send us the sites of bonfires would state the county in which the bonfire is situate. . We have the honour to remain, yours very faithfully, W. E. Campion, H. M. Cadell, J. M. Mc.Caxmont, T. H. W. Idris, F. W. S. McLaren, G. H. MlLWAUD, H. D. Eawnsley, Hon. Co- Secretaries. ]>^OTE. — The question of sending up rockets at intervals of one, ^yq, fifteen, or thirty minutes, or one hour after lighting the bonfires, must be left to each local Committee to decide according to the funds at their disposal ; the more continuous the display the better. 15 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. The Firing of the Beacons. ^HE atmospheric conditions of June 22nd were not propitious for tlie ^[1^ Coronation bonfire display. Though the rain held off in the Mid- lands and the South-west, and does not appear to have interfered with the lighting of the bonfires in some parts of Scotland, it prevented many from being lighted in Wales and the English Lake District, and even where no rain fell, so obscured was the horizon that several bonfires that were lit were invisible from well-known points of view. Fortunately the storm of Thursday gave way to a very calm evening on Eriday, and allowed a beautiful display on the Lake District hills round Keswick. Owing to the inability to send telegraphic messages on Coronation Day, it was impossible to arrange for all bonfire builders to hold over the firing of them till the following night, and thus many that would otherwise have too willingly waited for a finer night were lighted under conditions of storm and rain. But it is clear from correspondence that even under the worst conditions of weather the enthusiasm of the crowds that assembled at the lighting was undamped, and the bonfires, though not seen at a distance, gave great pleasure to those who had come together to the sight. The county that had the largest number of fires was Devonshire, 276, followed by Yorkshire and Derbyshire with 163 and 81 respectively. In England altogether there were 1,565. Christ's Hospital bonfire, on Sharpenhurst Hill, was remarkable. The whole school, numbering 820, formed a great semi-circle and sang the National Anthem to the accompaniment of cornets. Notwithstanding the rain, the bonfire, built scientifically, burned most bravely. Another interesting bonfire was built by the scholars of Windlesham House, Brighton, on the old Eoman Camp, '' Castle Mound," at Hartfield. The head master, with twenty-four boys, most of them boy scouts, had 16 TEE CORONATION BONFIRES. gone to camp at this village on the previous day, and finding that no bonfire had been arranged for, they borrowed a van, and while the masters got between the shafts, they pushed it to a neighbouring wood, and having obtained leave to do so, set to w^ork to bring loads of fuel for the morrow's bonfire. They worked all the next day in pouring rain, so well, that the pile, 18ft. high and 12ft. broad, was finished and ready for the firing at 10 o'clock. The rain stopped at 9-45, and on the firing of the signal rocket from the Crystal Palace, the torch was put to the fire and the fliame roared up. Six other fires were seen in the neighbour- hood. In the Lake District the school that distinguished itself was the elementary school at Braithwaite, and for individual effort the same village must be remembered, for one of the Thornthwaite miners upon the Kinn Edge, with his own hands, built a pile, which, when the children's fire on Grisedale Pike had finished burning, was lit and glowed like a jewel upon the dark hill mass of the west of Bassenthwaite. The scholars also at Threlkeld Quarry distinguished themselves by arranging for a fine bonfire. The highest bonfire erection that we have record of was the bonfire at Whitehaven. It rose to a height of 103ft. Another, at Farringdon, near Exeter, was TOft. high. Built up by labouring men after working hours with materials supplied by farmers, it contained 250 tons of wood, and though it was not placed on any eminent spot, 20 other bonfires were seen from it. A large bonfire too in the south was built on Rose Hill, Sutton, of material given chiefly by Messrs. Brock. It was about 50ft high and was 35ft. wide at the base. Into the central chimney of this structure a complete mass of trees, oak beams, doors, etc., a properly constructed archway 6ft. high by 4ft. wide was formed, which allowed visitors to pass inside and see the method of its building. It was lit at the top by a match 100ft. long. The wife of the Rector of Sutton set fire to the fuse, and in a few seconds a great flare from the top showed the bonfire well alight. A thousand people were gathered round the bonfire, and neither the fire nor the fijeworks are likely to be forgotten. 17 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Owing to tlie rain storms, mists, and clouds, there was no great number of bonfires seen at one time in most cases, though we hear that from Swinscoe, in Staffordshire, 73 were seen, and 50 from Denham Beacon. At the time of the Diamond Jubilee no less than 100 fires were counted from this last point. In some parts of the country it would seem that the amount of money collected for the Coronation was so entirely absorbed in other festivities that nothing was left for bonfires. This was notably so in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Thus, for example, where from Boar's Hill 90 fires were counted in 1897, on this occasion not more than 17 were visible. On the other hand it must be remembered that owing to atmospheric hindrances a very large number of fires though lit, were not visible from the larger heights. The heavy rain storm prevented a few of the bonfires from being fired. This was notably so when the bonfire was built of peat which had not been covered with tarpaulin, as it is always wise to do. For instance the fine peat bonfire erection on Ingleborough was not lightable owing to its soaking condition, notwithstanding use of solid parafiin. It does not seem to have much mattered, for various correspondents at a distance report having seen a fine blaze on Ingleborough. They probably mistook the Lucal light on Penygent. As a matter of fact a bonfire on Ingleborough was eventually fired on Saturday, September 9th. The bonfire at Nenthead was an example of the great difficulty in lighting a wet bonfire in an exposed position. My correspondent thus describes it: — ''After several failures to light it at the top with burning torches, we rolled a tar barrel against the windward side, and filled it with paraffin paper. The boldest of us, while seven or eight men spread their overcoats round him to keep off the fierce eddies of the gale and the driving rain, volunteered to crawl into the barrel and light the paper. Twenty or thirty matches were blown out as soon as struck; at last one succeeded, and the match striker jumped out just in time, and after a few minutes we held the tar barrel with its mouth spurting flame to the pile, but it was too soaked to catch fire even from this blazing barrel. We tried throwing lighted tar boards on to the bonfire top, but they all failed. 18 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. At last it was determined to liglit tlie pile on the lee-side where it was dry at the bottom. The fire caught and worked rapidly round the base, and our bonfire was lit at last." This same correspondent, who had been instrumental in getting volunteer carters and volunteer labourers to cut the fuel, nail-studded rafters and tree stubbs and broken branches, and to carry them on to a windy fell top on very cold evenings, gave a very interesting account of the JSTenthead bonfire. Before the lighting of the pile he sat down on the lee of it and passed the time with the only available literature, which happened to be a Socialist paper. The paper was full of denunciations of the master class, who make the workers lose two days' wages for an ornamental function of no interest to them. My correspondent continues : " It sounds oddly under the lee of a bonfire, built wholly by hardworking men on their own initiative and without wages, in their not too abundant spare time. I reflect that people do not always need much pressure from the master class to make them like a holiday, and a great cheerful blaze to delight their children and a circle of far distant lights to remind them of the loyalty of their neighbours." The enthusiasm at ^enthead, an isolated mining village in Cumber- land, was not singular. These bonfires, in most instances raised by volunteers with considerable effort, when they were built on the greater heights, called forth much brotherhood and begat much enthusiasm. The Skiddaw bonfire, for example, could never have been achieved except for the cordial help of farmers and townsmen in the Crosthwaite valley^ who gave their teams to help to get material to the top. And to the objection that it was a great waste of money, and that the wood or peat gathered together might have been sold and given to the poor, we have to reply that in very many instances the wood was fallen trees that it could have paid no one to remove, as for example, at Yealand Conyers. Sometimes it was of such rubbish as the skeleton remains of an old windmill, as at Youlbury Heath, Boar's Hill ; or again of old boats, as was the case with the Knole Cricket Club bonfire. As a matter of fact the cost of the bonfire on Skiddaw was £7 5s. This included cutting of peat and the team labour that was hired. 19 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, But the fact remains that nothing seems to kindle such enthusiasm as the sight of a great body of flame, and the fiery response of far-off hills, with the knowledge that wherever these points of lights are seen, there too is a rejoicing multitude in brotherly union of loyalty to a great occasion. One does not wish to decry the eating and drinking which seem to have bulked very largely in the matter of our Coronation festivities, but the idealism for which the bonfire movement stood was in the nature of things largely absent from this side of the Coronation celebrations, and long after the tea or the dinner has been forgotten, the memory of the bonfires and rockets will remain to all who took part in building them and to all who saw them. It is noteworthy to see how the enthusiasm amongst the builders and lighters of bonfires, once a^vakened, never seems to die out. Thus for example, Mr. Whiston, of Sutton, near Macclesfield, lit the bonfire on Teg's Nose that celebrated the wedding of the late King, and he has presided at the lighting of that bonfire on all occasions since, firing the Coronation bonfire this year. On Skiddaw, the mason, William Gilbanks, who built up the stone flues for the Jubilee bonfire, also built the stone flues for the Coronation bonfire on this occasion. Not one of the least interesting additions to the bonfires on the heights were the Lucal lights, which were supplied by Messrs. Mc.Murtie, of Glasgow. In places where no fuel could easily be arranged for, these have burned well. The Lucal light on the Low Man of Skiddaw, which was arranged for because the bonfire on the High Man, though visible to all the littoral plain, and seen at Carlisle and far across the Solway, was invisible to the people of Keswick, shone out like a gigantic torch, and the acetylene light, supplied from Barrow, on Coniston Old Man, was seen as far south as Lancaster. On Scafell, with the help of some quarrymen, Mr. Reay was able to improvise a fire which burned very brilliantly though for a short time, by carrying up old bags which they soaked in paraffin, and this on some future occasion may be remembered as an expedient for inaccessible heights. 20 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. It should not be forgotten that in many instances hoy scouts did yeoman service, and especially in Scotland, encouraged largely by the enthusiasm of Colonel Cadell and his Bonfire ballad for the Scouts. Across the Border there were few bonfire committees. Individual effort, helped l>y boy scouts, often by parish ministers, was the order of the day. A few municipalities undertook the task, but in remote places the personal superintendence of the lairds went to the building of the pyres. Of course the rockets seen from the heights were a great feature, and the burning of red lights and magnesium torches were also noteworthy additions to the bonfire display. In our lake country the red glory of the Bengal light on Helvellyn, which Mr. Easton of the Nag's Head, at Wjrthburn, took charge of, was seen far and near. The secretaries of our movement are very grateful to those who abided so loyally by the programme, and who took such trouble to send particulars and photographs for the record. Notwithstanding very clear assertion in our preliminary circular that we had no central fund to go towards the expenses of bonfires, and not- withstanding the fact that we gave quite clearly the name of the bonfire firm who would supply rockets specially made for the occasion at certain prices, we were continually being asked not only for subscriptions to local bonfire committees, but orders came to us to supply so many rockets and so much paraffin at a few hours' notice, as though we were both manu- facturers of the fireworks and makers of solid paraffin fuel. We have in conclusion to thank Messra. James Pain, of Mitcham, Surrey, for their courtesy and swift attention to orders, and Messrs. Mc.Murtrie, of 122 West Eegent Street, Glasgow, for having designed so portable a Lucal light, and for the gift of two flares, and the Solid Petroleum Fuel Company, of Southampton How, London, for their gift of solid paraffin, which, we know from our correspondents^ proved of most efficient service for lighting bonfires that had been soaked by rain storm. 21 TEE CORONATION BONFIRES. THE SKIDDAW BONFIRE. June 22nd — 23ed. Deep-wmpped iu cloud I heard the Crosthwaite bells Proclaim the day of crowns had dawned at last, Clear from the valley came thro' storm and blast Such sound of man's rejoicing as upswells When kings are made; To-day along the fells No fiery signs of triumph could be passed, But still for king and country I stood fast, The loneliest pyre of mountain sentinels. But when the morrow's sun by Sol way shore Had sunk, and all the magic afterglow Had flushed and faded, sudden on the steep I felt my soul to banner of flame forth-leap, And Carlisle's sons and Morecambe's men might know Old Skiddaw's heart was loyal to the core, H. D. Ra-wnsley. 22 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. The Coronation Bonfire on Skiddaw. )HE storm of Coronation Day that raged round Skiddaw had given way to calm and sunlight. It was determined, though the glass still stood at rain, to fire the beacon, or so much of it as it was hoped had not been blown away by the furious winds of the preceding day and night. The day improved. Telegrams were dispatched to the Committees in charge of bonfires on neighbouring heights, and away at four o'clock in the afternoon started the rocket-men and the builders to repair any havoc that the wind might have played with the peat-stack on the summit. For though we had securely fastened the larch-pole tripod round which the peats had been built with iron rope and heavily weighted the whole mass with stone, so fierce was the wind at the time of building that one of the builders was lifted clean oif his feet, and the storm had increased in violence since that day. Going up some hours later, I passed through the larches of Latrigg to the Gale, and heard the cuckoo calling from the green-grey slopes of Skiddaw as the ancient Roman guard had done who held their little outlook camp here, and could not help thinking how at the call of that " wandering voice" — the one familiar voice in a strange land — those men of old time had been cheered with thoughts of home. They, too, probably on just such an evening as this, had seen bonfires in olden time, for it was Midsummer Eve, and on Midsummer Eve the Brigantes hereabout would doubtless have lit their fires in yonder Druid Circle on Castrigg Fell, and rolled their burning wheels of straw for Beltane festival down the slopes of Skiddaw. The winds were laid, and all the mountain ranges stood clear against fair sky. No evening could have better suited our purpose. Climbing up by the hut on to Jenkin, the only sound that broke the silence was the chirruck of the grouse on Lonscale. ''Come back! Come back!" they cried from the bronze green heather. " No, no," said I, " we are going forward. We are bound for Skiddaw-top in honour of the King." 23 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Suddenly, on far-off Glaramara, the flood of golden light appeared, emphasised by the grey slate-blue of all the Borrodale hills. The green bilberry and fern of the neighbouring slope seemed suddenly to be flushed with the emerald of a new spring, and I knew that the afterglow had begun. Presently all the town of Keswick at our feet appeared to have put on the festal attire of illumination before the time, and far-off house windows on the slopes burned like jewels. The light streaming from the north- west, though its golden source was hidden from us by the mass of Skiddaw Low Man, struck over the heights of Castrigg Fell on to Helvellyn, and the blue mountain wall from Shoulthwaite to Thirlspot glowed into molten gold. The shadows of neighbouring hills, darker for the glow, seemed to mark off this great shining mass into the shape of a crown. Helvellyn was determined, whether a flare upon its top was lit or no, to do honour to the crowning of the King. The radiance grew and g-ji^ew. Every rock and gully upon its flank seemed to burn like living jewels. " Cush man,'* said a Cumbrian shepherd close by me, as he leaned upon his staff, " Ah hev' follerd t' sheep for forty year upon these hills, and nivver seen the likes o' yon," and the dog by his side seemed as appreciative as his master. " Bonfire or nea bonfire, it's wuth t' dim up Skidda to-neet fur sec a sight as that noo. Ah wadn't ha' missed it for punds." As he spoke there shot up into heaven a great pillar of rainbow from over the shoulder of Blencathra. I had never seen a rainbow at a quarter past nine at night in my life before, and took it as a sign of hope for the new King's reign. The mystery and magic of it all lay in the fact that we could not see the mystery-maker, for between us and the light in the north the great mountain mass of Skiddaw stood blue-grey. Meanwhile the gold upon Helvellyn went to rose. The little tarn of Tewfit upon Naddle shone ruby-red. Presently beyond the purple waste of Matterdale and the vaporous distance beyond, the whole range of Crossfell began to burn, and when, as suddenly as it had flamed into being, the flanks of Helvellyn passed back into grey-blueness the mountain wall far to the east stood up like a rosy bar of morn upon the lilac Laze of distance. 24 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Still up we went, feeling each step more light and easy for the cool refreshing air, till the path beyond Jenkin beneath the " Little Man '* was reached and the waste of Skiddaw Forest lay in pure purple beneath us. Climbing up over the rough shales of Broad-end, we passed the village schoolmaster in charge of the '' ilare," and made our way along the ridge towards the upstanding pile of the Skiddaw bonfire. Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite lay below us faint silver still washed with gold; the islands on the former lay as black as jet. The great littoral plain rolled towards what seemed a mighty river hung in air. This was the Solway, and beyond it Criffel and the vScotch hills stood ghostly grey. Now we could see the glory of the mystery-maker of that afterglow. Above the white Solway water, above the grey-blue hills, the molten bars of sunset stood revealed, whilst sailing up towards the zenith, from time to time like rosy galleons, " cloudlets " passed away and faded in middle heaven. But the beauty of that evening sky lay not so much in the long lingering bars of sunset as in the great clear ocean inlet of opal light that seemed to flood in from some aerial Atlantic between headlands covered with black forest growth — Ithe purple-black clouds of night. Suddenly, like some vast lighthouse tower on one of these forest headlands, a light was seen, and the planet Venus, lighting her torch, conjured forth from Bassenthwaite a marvellous reflection of its world of flame. Star called to star, and suddenly we were aware of Jupiter, glorious above the pike of Grizedale to the west. But we had other work to do than look at stars or evening sky, for the bonfire was still in building. A sturdy helper stood on the pile, fifteen feet high, deftly placing into position the peats that, first soaked in a a barrel of paraifin, were being thrown up to him. Then all the light brushwood that had been prepared for the bonfire top was stowed into place between the upstanding horns of the larch poles, round which the pile had been built. These were well trampled down, more peats added, a sack of shavings dipped in paraffin was packed away, and, descending from his perch, he and other stalwart helpers deluged the mass with paraffin thrown on to it by buckets or sprayed on to it by garden syringes, and the bonfire waited for the torch. 25 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. At 9-55 a sliip's signal rocket went up and broke with a loud report. We could hear the echo like distant thunder from the hills across Bassenthwaite, and in a moment from the heights at Grizedale, Catbels, and the King's How in Borrodale other thunder-makers sailed into heaven. So quiet was the air that the bonfire-builders on Grizedale Pike, above the Whinlatter Pass, heard distinctly the echo of the signal rocket that was fired on Scafell Pike miles to the south. Then a magnesium rocket sailed up, and we saw a globe of light in answer on far Helvellyn and Scafell top, and we knew that there were watchers on those heights also determined to share our offering of loyalty to the King. " It is 10 o'clock,*' shouted the bonfire-builder, and bidding all the people come to windward the torch-holder applied a light to his torch and touched the shavings on the top of the pile. It must have astonished all who had never seen a peat bonfire, well parafiined, lit before, to see how in a moment, with a great roar of jubilance, the whole of that mass from top to bottom blazed out into light, and sent out its banner of flame for a hundred feet or more above the Crosthwaite Yale. Then the roar of the ten thousand tongues of flame was for a moment drowned in the hearty singing of the National Anthem and the cheers that followed. Many bonfires had been lit on the previous night, but here and there steady stars were seen to jewel the dark-blue carpet of the plain, and rockets were observed to sail up and hang like globes of light and disappear. From Gunimers How in the south, to Wigton in the north the bonfire-makers were busy. As for our neighbourSj the most beautiful bonfire was the one that glowed on Grizedale Pike. Barrow burned brightly in answer to Catbels for a short time, and one of the most beautiful immediate effects was the red fire upon Helvellyn top. It was a disappointment to us all that the '' flare " which had been kindly lent by Messrs. Mc.Murtrie for Helvellyn could not be got up at the short notice given, but our "flare" on Broad End burned like a splendid torch, and must have been seen far and wide* Scafell answered us bravely with its rockets, and those who were in charge of that height had been able at short notice to work a bonfire light that burned for a considerable time. 26 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Not the least beautiful part of our celebration on Skidda\v was the way in which rockets at the summit and the burnings of green and red light were answered by the rockets and coloured lights at Skiddaw Broad End. The nearest fire on the east was the fire at Caldbeck, seen in the Caldew gap, which by its brightness and length of burning must have been of considerable size. Some of us, leaving the roar of the pyre at the summit, went off through quiet air to Broad End to watch the festal fires on Derwentwater. The boats seemed " like fireflies tangled in a golden braid," and rockets from Crow Park sailed up and broke in answer to our own. At 11 o'clock a bouquet of rockets ascended from Skiddaw High Man and fell into stars of red, white, and blue. Again the National Anthem rang out clear, and leaving the fire still burning furiously we turned our backs upon it and began the descent. Only those who have had to stumble through semi-darkness down over the Skiddaw shales and through the broken turf and pitfalls on Jenkin side can know the difficulty of such descent, and a week after they will still probably be reminded that certain muscles in their stumbling and recovering themselves were brought into play which had not been brought into play before. But the hut was reached at last, and the delight of the ease gained for foot as we traversed the Gale meadows and passed down through the larches of Latrigg more than compensated for the sorrow of the descent. The cool air of the valley was sweet with elder flower. Belated lovers came wandering up through the shadows to see the sunrise from Skiddaw, with such sunrise doubtless in their hearts that they might well have forgone the climb. No voice but the corncrake was heard in the meadows, and the solemn quiet of Skiddaw, restored to its ancient tranquillity, sank into one's soul. The afterglow upon Helvellyn, the gorgeous fire upon Skiddaw top, seemed passed as suddenly as a dream, so strange the contrast between silent vale and jubilant mountain peak; but the memory of the bewitching evening climb, and all the Coronation joy upon that ancient height will live for ever. 27 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. ENGLAND. An asterisk dt notes that there is a i^hutogi'aijh of this Bonfre. Bedfordshire (S reported), Aspley Guise Wobum Dunstable, Clielton Beacon Berkshire (19 reported). Beaumont Cbilton Crowtborne, Lodge Hills (300ft. above sea level), built by local Committee, Lt.-Col. Hinde, Chairman Eton, tbe Buocs, Sidney Mum- ford, Charles Wells, Hon Secretaries Faringdon, White Horse Hill (850ft. above sea level), noti- fied by Eev. E. M. Hadow Haines Hill Hungerford Beacon Hurst Buckinghamshire (1J^ reported). Inkpen Beacon Kingsclere-in-Newbury Knowl Hill Linden Hill Midgham E-eading, Beech Hill, built by village boys (8 fires seen) Stokenchurch Tilehurst Upper Youlbury Hill, Charles Wells, Hon. Secretary Warfield Bracknell Wootton, Boar's Hill Amersdown Bledlow, notified by George H. Quinet Brill, H. A. Swain, Hon. Secretary Cholesbury Common Flackwell Heath High Wycombe, Beacon Hill (600ft. above sea level), 40ft. high, J. Dean, Hon. Secretary Lane End, H. H. Worthington, Chairman ^Newport Pagnell (32ft. high), built by G. Tayler and H. J. Thomas Newton Longville Princes Risborough, Whiteleaf Hill (800ft. above sea level). Miss E. Blamire-Brown, Hon. Secretary (22 fires seen) Stokenchurch (25ft. high), built by villagers, A. H. Tranter, Hon. Secretary (8 fires seen) West Wycombe Wing Wooburn Green Cambridge Conington Ely Godmanchester Littleport Cambridgeshire [9 reported). Melboum Whittlesea Whittlesford Wisbeach 28 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Cheshire Alderley Edge Beeston Castle Hill, organiser, G. E. Cotton Birkenhead, Mersey Park Burton Manor, D. Wishart, E^)n. Secretary Cholmondley, fired by March- ioness of Cholmondley, St. John Charlton, Agent to Marquis of Cholmondley, Hon. Secretary Congleton, Timbersbrook, H. Mawson, Hon. Secretary Disley, Jackson's Edge, notified by Alfred Darbyshire Ellesmere Port Frodsham Hill, notified by Regi- nald Potts Gatley, C. M. Street, Hon. Secretary High Billinge Oornwall Bodmin Boscastle notified by E,ev. J. H. Dickinson, Chairman; Karl Durston, Hon. Secretary Bude Beacon Camborne Carn Carne Beacon, fired by Wallas Blamey; Canon Kempe, Hon. Secretary (20 fires seen) Coverack, Chyralls Point Cury Downderry Gevennagh, Carnmarth, fired by Mrs. Beauchamp, notified by C. James, Hon. Secretary Gorran, J. J. Britton, Hon. Secretary (15 fires seen) (22 reported). Hill Warren Kersal Moor Marple Eidge, notified by Regi- nald Potts Mellor, W. Chadwick, Hon. Secretary *Micklehurst, Herford Lawton, Hon. Secretary *Mow Cop, notifield by Reginald Potts Stretton Stretton-on-Fosse Sutton, Macclesfield, Teg's Nose (1,000ft. above sea level), (20ft. high), fired and notified by W. Whishton (50 fires seen) Werneth Low, notified by Regi- nald Potts Whaley Bridge, Hawkhurst (30ft. high), H. Power, Hon. Secretary (4^6 reported). Great Hills, built by local Com- mittee, J. J. Britton, Hon Secretary (15 fires seen) Jacobstow, Jewell Burrow, T. H. Paynter, Hon. Secretary Ladock Land's End, Carn Bosavern Laneast Down (800ft. above sea level), E. G. B. Lethbridge, Hon. Secretary (43 fires seen) Lezant, Trekenner Linkinhorne, Elbow, notified by Miss Frances Trehane Liskeard, Castle Hill Luxalgan Church Tower (Flare) Mesack Point 29 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Cornwall — Continued . Micliaelstowe Beacon (700ft. St. German's above sea level), T. H. Sec- combe, Hon. Secretary Mullion, The Cairn Padstow, Crugmeer Penrhyn, Tolcarne Height, W. Perry Williams, Chairman Penzance, Trengwainton Pillaton, High Kernock Beacon Eidge Hill (1,087ft. above sea level), notified by F. R. Hodd (68 fires seen) St. Agnes Beacon St. Day, Wheel Jewell, notified by C. James St. Enoder, Summercourt Beacon, H. Nancarrow, Hon. Secretary St. Gennys St. German's, Colgear St. Just-in-Eoseland St. Keverne St. Mabyn's Beacon St. Merry n St. Minver, Trevelver Hill Saltask, C. W. Clarke, Hon. Secretary Sheviock Stoke Climsland Stratton, Stamford Hill Tor Point, Borough Farm Truro, Polwhele Wadebridge Hill, T. Rickard, Hon. Secretary Warbston Barrow Anthorn, Hilton Hon. vSecretary Bassenthwaite (2) Borrodale, King's How, H. G. Layland and G. T. Mounsey, Hon. Secretaries Bowness-on-Solway, notified by the Rev. L. D. Milton *Bowscar Hill, built ^ by Boy Scouts from material given by A. W. Erskine (4 fires seen) Braithwaite, Grizedale Pike, built by G. Watson and school children Braithwaite, Kinn Edge, built by William Barnes *Brampton, fired by Rev. T. Arm- strong, G. C. Osborne, Hon. Secretary Broughton, R. Telford, Hon. Secretary *Caldbeck, Ratten Row, Fauld's Brow Caldew Fell Cumberland (55 reported). Middleton, Castle Carrock, Knotts Quarry, G. B. Routledge, Hon. Secretary *Corby Castle (Mr. Howard's bonfire), T. Beaton, Chair- man Dalemain, built by Canon Hasell *Eourstones, Warden Hill (35ft. high), A. Wright and W. T. Butland, Hon. Secretaries (17 fires seen) Gilsland, Temple Heap, W. R. Wright, Hon. Secretary Great Broughton, Buckhill, (.16ft. high), Jas. Gilchrist, Hon. Secretary Great Clifton, Old Westray Pit Bank (24ft. high), James Gilchrist, Hon. Secretary Great Musgrave (8 fires seen) Greystoke, Summer Grounds (Mr. H. C. Howard's bonfire), fired by the Lady Mabel Howard 20 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. CuMBEEIiAND ♦Hallbankgate, Carlisle (30ft. high), R. G. Reader, Hon. Secretary Harrington, Walkers Brow, built by Boy Scouts, I. Graham, Hon. Secretary *Heads Nook, Faugh Hill, G. W. Avery, Chairman Helvellyn (Flare), managed by G. Easton Irthington, Thorny Hill, T. Waugb, Hon. Secretary Kirkbride, C. H. Harrison, Hon. vSecretary Knipe Scar, wood given by Lord Lonsdale, fired by Miss Hudson Langholm Lorton, Whinfell (30ft, high), built by farmers, fired by W. U. Armstrong, H. A. Taylor, Hon. Secretary (6 fires seen) Lowca, Whitehaven, J. John- son, Hon. Secretary Lyneholme Common, Robert Goodfellow, Hon. Secretary Mai^port, Broughton Moor, G. Armstrong, Hon. Secretary Mealsgate, Watchhill, P. Murray Thompson, Hon. Secretary Mell Fell, built by A. W. Rumney Muncaster Fell Nenthead, Black Hill Edge, notified by J. Kenyon and Caldwell Earpur Newlands, Catbels, built by the Rev. B. L. Carr and helpers Port Carlisle, F. Whyte, Hon. Secretary Ruckcroft, G. J. Dixon, Hon. Secretary — Continued. Scafell, built by quarrymen, J. Reay, Hon. Secretary (8 fires seen) *Silloth, Eagle Hill, fired by Boy Scouts, W. W. Harvey, Hon. Secretary (12 fires seen) *Skiddaw, built by members of Keswick Committee, fired by Canon Rawnsley, H. Swin- burn, Hon. Secretary (8 fires seen) Skiddaw Low Man (Flare), in charge of H. Swinburn St. Bees, Tomline Head, J. J. Thompson, Hon. Secretarv Tallentire Hill, W. Briggs, Hon. Secretary Threlkeld Quarry, built by quarrymen Threlkeld, White Pike (16ft. high), built and fired by S. Knight, Walter Swallow (Hon. Secretary), H. Greenop, and A. Rea Torpenhow, Borrow Scale (800ft. above sea level), William Little, Hon. Secretary Trough, Mallshill, A. Kennedy, Jun., Hon. Secretary ^Warwick, near Carlisle, War- wick Bank, C. E. Pierpont, Chairman *Whitehaven (103ft. high), arranged for by Lord Lonsdale, The Whitehaven Colliery Company, and J. A. Jackson *Workington, Calva Hill (30ft. high), built by C. A. Valen- tine, F. W. Iredale, Hon. Secretary Wythop, Sale Fell, Rev. P. N. Kennedy, Hon. Secretary Ulls water, Hallin Fell, George Macpherson, Hon. Secretary 31 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Derbyshire Alderwasly, Rev. M. I). Ward- rop, Chairman Alsop-en-le-Dale, Moot Low (1,200ft. above sea level), noti- fied by Wm. Tickell (35 fires seen) Asbton-on-Trent, Aston Hill, Mr. Wall, Hon. Secretary Bakewell Ballidon Baslow, Wellington Monument Hill, built by Rev. W. Yale Bagshawe Beelsey Bolsover Bradbourne Bradwell, Rebellion Knoll Brimington Burton-on-Trent Buxton, Corbar Hill, W. F. Mill, J. P., Chairman Buxton, Harpur Hill Buxton, Solomon's Temple, Prank Langley and J. W. Willougbby, Jun., Hon. Secretaries Castleton, Tray Cliff, Dr. H. B. Shepherd, Chairman Chapel-en-le-Frith Chatsworth Park Chellaston, the Woodlands, J. Williamson, Hon. Secretary Chelmerton, The Low (1,400ft. above sea level) Chesterfield, Tapton Hill, noti- fied by Vincent Smith Chesterfield, Boythorpe Hill, notified by Yincent Smith Chesterfield, The Spital, notified by Yincent Smith Chinley Clay Cross, Bind Hillocks Cobden Ed^e (81 reported), Codnor Park, Forty Horse Pit Hill (41ft. high),^built by the Butterley Co. Conygree Knob, notified by Rev. R. H. C. Fitz-Herbert (24 fires seen) Crich Clifi' Cromford-on-Masson, F. C. Ark- wright, J. P., Chairman Dalbury Lees (401ft. above sea level), built by R. W. Green- smith Denby, near Derby (36ft. high), notified by M. Fryar Doe Lea Dove Hole, Cow Low Duffield, Chevin (800ft. above sea level, 40ft. high), fired by Mrs. Swindell; W. Swindell, Hon. Secretary; W. R. Bland, Superintendent Eccles Pike Edale, Lord's Seat, E. Montague Brown, Chairman Edensor Eyam, Bale Hills, Edwin Maltby, Hon. Secretary Grlossop, Coombs Edge Glossop, The Nab, T. H. Morris, Hon. Secretary Great Longstone, Longstone Edge, L. Bennett, Hon. Secretary Grindleford Hathersage Hayfield, Lantern Pike Higher Wheeldon. Earl Stern- dale, J. Pulpher, Hon. Secretary Holmes-Field, built by Rev. C. Bradshaw Horsley, J. Macdonald, Chair- man 32 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Derbyshire- Idridgehay Ilkeston (Seachliglit) Kirkby Langley Little Eaton Littleover, Owlers Hill, Bryan Daykin, Hon. Secretary Litton, Litton Edge, Allan Hibbert, Hon. Secretary Longnor Loscoe, George E. Newton, Hon. Secretary Mackworth Mapleton Middleton-by-Worksworth North Wingiield, Alma Tip Ockbrook Palterton, near Bolsover Parwicli Peak Dale, Longridge Peaslow Top, vSparrow Pit, F, Mellor, Chairman Pilsley-cum-Chatsworth Quardon, E. P. Westnidge, Hon. Secretary Devonshire Alplingter, Knowle Hill Alwington, The Downs Anstey, Anstey Barrows Ashburton, Teignmouth Hill Ashreigncy, Bidefin Ashton, Castle Park Hill Ashwater, Ashwater Barton Atherington, Eire Beacon Eield Axmouth, Hawksdown Hill Bampton, Quarry Nap Bampton, Sparkhayne Bampton, The Mount Coombe- head -Continued. Quarnford, Oliver Hill (1,550ft. above sea level), notified by Eev. T. H. Peake (50 fires seen) Repton, W. A. Daniell, Hon. Secretary Rowarth Hill Shuttleworth & NStanfree Spondon, W. Dalby, Hon. Secretary Sutton Park Taddington, Huniphrey Gate, G. Neaves, Hon,. Secretary Thurvaston Stoop, Long Lane, E. W. Greensm.it h, Hon. Secretary Tideswell, Brian Hill, Chairman Tutbury Whatstandwell, F. Askhaai, Hon. Secretary Wirks worth, Alport Hill Wormhill Yarrock (276 reported). Bampton, Won ham Nap Barnstaple (600ft.. abovo sea level), 30 bcBfirea visible, and reflection of Bunkery Beacon Beer, Furzebrake Beesands, Toss Hill Belstone, Watchei Hill, F. H. Ormston Pease, Chairman Berealstone, F^iirze Ball Hill Bickleigh Bideford, Bilberry & Ford Bishop's Nympton, Top Down Hill 33 THE CORONATION BONFIRES Devonshire- Buckland Eilleigh, Woodhead Bisliopstawton, Codden Hill Bishopteignton, Little Haldon Blackawton, East Hartley Hill Black Down Black Torrington Bradford, Lashbrooke Bradninck, The Beacon Bradwortliy, Tiie Commons Bratton Fleming Bratton Clovelly *Braunton, Buckland Hill (24ft. kigh), notified by W. B. Webber Brendon, vScob Hill Brenton, Brenton Hill Bridestowe, North Ball Bridestowe Bridgerule Brixham, South Down Hill Broadwiger Broadwoodkelly Brushford, Hulverton Hill Buckerell, Bushey Knapp Buckfastleigh, Scoviton Down Buckland Monarchorm, the Moors Buckland-in-the-Moor, Buckland Beacon Buckland Filleigh, Great Hill Bude, The Beacon Bui Ferrers, Furdye Ball Hill Bull Point Bushey Knap Cadbury, The Castle Cadeleigh, The Warren Challacombe, Shoulsbury Hill Chard, Beacon Hill -Continued. Chardstock All Saints, South Common Chardstock, Beacon Hill Chapman's Beacon, St. Giles Chawleigh Cheriton Cross Cheriton, Windmill Down (650ft. above sea level, 20ft. high, 30 fires seen), C. H. Fulford, Hon. Secretary Chevithorne, Chevithorne Hill Chillington, Molescombe Hill Chittlehampton, Slade Field, built by Mr. W. Friendship, lighted by Mrs. G. W. Thorold, wood given by Lord Clinton, J. H. Manaton, Hon. Secretary Chittlehampton, Winsome Farm Chudleigh, Play Park Chumleigh, The Beacon Churchstanton, The Hill Clist-Honiton, Harris Hill Clovelly, Gallantry Bower Coffinswell, Skill CoUaston St. Mary, Kirkham Down Collumpton, Copelands Combeinteignhead, The Beacon Combe Trenchard Cookbury, Beaconsfield (618ft above sea level), H. Fairfax's bonfire Coombe Martin, Claridge Hill Cornwood, Korke Tor Cove, Yanpost Crediton, George Hill Crowan, The Beacon Cudbury Camp Culmstock, Beacon Hill Dartmouth 24 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Devonshiue — Continued. Dawlish, Holcombe Dawlish, West Cliff Devonport Diptford, Kerswell Park Doddiscombsleigli Dolton, Broad Park Downlands (909ft. above sea level), near Blackborough, A. Eraser Tyler, Hon. Secretary- Down St. Mary Drewsteignton, Bowden Ball Dnlverton, Court Down Dunchideock, Knowle Hill East Ogwell, Eansley Hill Eastdown, The Barton Escot, The Park Exbourne, Bridge Lane Park Exeter, Pennsylvania Hill Exmoutb, Pbear Park Farringdon, Exeter (70ft.), built by working men, notified by tbe Eev. Alfred Gill Farway, Warren Hill Eeniton, Clappersclose Filleigb, Oxford Down Fremington Fritbelstock, Road Park Georgebam, Kettiwik Down Germanswerk, Barrow Down Gidleigb, Gidleigb Park Gittisbam, Waybead Givemap, Carn worth Godleigh, Skinnersbrafield Gulworthy Haccombe-with-Coombe, Marsh- lands Halwell, Stanborough Camp Harberton, Copperthorn Hill Harbertonford, Higher Ellis Down Hatherleigh Moor Hawkchurch, Lambert's Castle Heanton Puchardson, Heanton Hill Helston, Tolcaine Park High Bickington Higher Ashton, notified by Gen. Sir Pichard Hauisay Hockworthy, Chimney Down Holbeton, Leeson Cross Hill Hole Head Holne, Green Down Holsworthy Honiton, Marlpits Hill Honiton, Clyst, Harris Hill Horwood, Knowle Hill Huccaby Tor (1,100ft. above sea level), 3 bonfires seen, Mr. Willcocks. Hon. Secretary Huish, The Paddock Huntshaw Iddesleigh, Park Hill Ilfracombe, Hillsborough Instow, Mutton Hill Inwardleigh, Barton Field Ipplepen, Great Biltor Islington, Haytor Ivybridge, The Western Beacon Jacobstowe, Sunset Corner Kenn, Haldon Kentisbeare Church Tower (Flare), 404 feet above sea level Kentisbeare, Montroth Hill 35 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. DEVONSHIHEf Kentisbeare, Strawberry Hill (44Tft. above sea level), Alex- ander Eraser Tytler, Hon. Secretary Kilkhampton Kin^sbridge, Tacket Wood Kingsnympton, Beara Cross Lapford, Torches Hill Landkey, Flagstaff Hill Launceston, Windmill Hill Lee, Flagstaff Hill Leedstown, John Spnrr's Burrow Lew Down, School Room Down Lifton, Lowly Beacon Little Torrington, Great Close Field Loddiswell, Higher Stobridge Loxhore, E-idge Park Lustleigh Lydford, High Down Lympstone, Cliff Field Lympton, Summer House Hill Lynmouth, Summer House Hill Lynton, Summer House Hill Manaton, Town Eocks Mariansleigh, Hilltown Quarry Marldon, White's Down Martinhoe, High Yeere Point, notified by Yictor N. Engel- heart Martinhoe, The Beacon Marytavy, Gibbet Hill Maundon Plantation, Wivelis- combe Meeth Membury, Membury Castle Meshaw, Kitcot Hill -Continued. Milton Abbot, Ramsdown Molland, Cophall Hill Monkleigh (Mr. G. Withe- combe's) Monkokehampton, Harbertort Hill Morchard Bishop, Great Park Morebath, Surridge Knap Moreton Hampstead, Mardon Down Mortehoe, Beacon Hill Musbury, The Castle N^ewton Abbot, Wolborough Hill Kewton Ferrers North Bovey, Easton Down North Hessary, Dartmoor Northleigh Hill North Molton, Bampfylde Hill North Tawton, Shaddon Farm Oakford Ocker Hill Ogwell, Ogwell Down Okehampton Hamlets and Chagford, Meldon Down and Yes Tor (2) Paignton, Cleeve Point Parkham, Melbury Down Parracombe Parracombe, Chapnor Barrows Petersmarland, Winscott Petertavy, Y^hit Tor Petrockstowe, Napp Hill Pinhoe, Beacon Hill Plymouth Hoe Plympton, Hemerdon Ball Point Plymstock, Staddon Heights Pontbridge, Lakehead Hill Pyeworthy, Stone Park 36 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Devot^shire- E^ackenford Common Roborough Kockbeare, E-ockbeare Hill Eomanslei^b, Tbe Beacon Rose Ash, Higber Barns Close Rose Asb, Soutb Molton Salcombe, Ilberstowe Hill Salcombe Regis, Salcombe Hill (511ft. above sea level), J. B. TJnwin, Hon. Secretary (5 fires seen) Saltcombe, Bolt Head Sampford Peverill, Connigar Hill Sampford Spinney, Pu Tor (28ft. higb), C. Calmady, Cbairman Sandford, Lillyball Sbaldon Sbeepstor, Horrabridge Shipbay Sidbnry, Buckton Hill Sidmoutb, Peak Hill Silverton, Criss Cross Sotbawron, Cawsand Beacon Soutb Brent, Brent Hill, W. Hull, Hon. Secretary Soutb Molton, Cockerbam Hill Soutb Pool, Hill Head Sparkwell, Hemerdon Staverton, Barton Hill St. Breward, Brown Willy St. Giles-in-tbe-Heatb, near Scbool St. Giles-in-tbe-Wood Sticklepatb, Wbite Stones Stockland, Beacon Hill -Continued. Stokeinteignbead, Gab well Stoke Fleming, Start Bay Stonebouse Stoney Corner, Nortblew Stratton, Stamford Hill Swymbridge Tborverton, Cadbury Castle Tbrusbelton, Broadly Down Tburlestone, Beacon Hill Tiverton, Exeter Hill and Hill Top Tor Torpoint Torrington, Huntsbam Totnes, Bunkers Hill Trentisboe, Barrow, Trentisboe, notified by Victor F. Engel- beart IJfPcombe Uplowman, Lowman Hill Uplyme, Knoll Hill (40ft. bigb), Hubert R. Morgan, Hon. Secretary IJpottery, Braddick's Knap Waddon Cross Warkleigb, Fire Beacon Watersmoutb, Tbe Warren Wellington, Monument Hill Werrington, Beacon Park (36ft. bigb), fired by Miss M. Walters, B. J. Yanstone, Hon. Secretary West Alvington Westleigb, Bull Hill Wbimple, Rockbeare Hill Winkleigb Witberidge, Cbapner Farm 37 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Devonshire — Continued . "Whitestone, Waddlesdown Woodbury, Chalfy Hill Woodbury, Cook's Farm Woodbury, Parkhayes Farm, Salterton Woodleigh Woolacombe, Black Cloud Hill Wonford, Pynes Hill Yelverton, Tbe Moors Dorsetshire Allington Hill Beaminster, Storridge Hill Bere Regis, Woodbury Hill material given by the Eight Hon. Lady Dunsany, fired by Mrs. Montague Bere, the Rev. Montague Beie, Hon. Secretary Blandford, Bulbarrow Blandford, Great Down Blandford, Iverne Minster Blandford, The Downs, notified by the Rev. F. Salmon Bloxworth (203ft. above sea level), 2 seen Bothen Hill, Walditch Bradford Peverell, Penn Hill (430ft. above sea level), 3 seen Charmouth (20ft. high), L. Jones, Hon. Secretary Dorchester, Poundsbury (40ft. high), built by Mr. T. R. Higgins, fired by Mrs. Hughes-Onslow (5 fires seen) East Chelborough, Castle Hill Gillingham, C. F. Ellerton, Hon. Secretary Glanville Wootton, Dungeon (30ft. high), built by T. Hol- f ord (23 fires seen) Hambledon Hill Hasdown Hill (4^Jf. reported). Herrison and Charminster, built by Dr. MacDonald, lit by Miss Phyllis MacDonald (3 fires seen) Herston Ibberton Hill Kington Magna Langton (20 fires seen) Langton Matravers Misterne, High Story (800ft. above sea level), 18ft. high Monckton Wyld Netherby (30ft. high), built by W. Eveleigh, fired by Miss Dyer, Rev. F. H. Noon and A. W. Salisbury, Hon. Secretaries Pilsdon Hill Poole, Constitution Hill (37ft. high), lighted by the Mayoress (several fires seen) Portland Powerstock, Eggardon Hill Rixton, Sturminster Newton Shaftesbury Castle Hill Sherborne, Totnel (9 other fires seen), Chairman, the Rev. Leonard Jenkins Shipton Beacon Swanage (30ft. high), S. D. Sewell and C. J. Deans, Hon Secretaries. 28 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Symondsbury, Broadstone, T.W. Besant, Hon. Secretary Symondsbury, Colmer's Hill T. W. Besant, Hon. Secretary Symondsbury, Tliorncombe Beacon, T. W. Besant, Hon. Secretary Walditcb DoRSETSHiEE—Continued . Warebam Warebam, Creecb Barrow, materials supplied by L. W. G. Bond (8 tires seen) Vfbitcburcli Winterbourne, Stickiand Wynford Eagle, Wynford Hil Durham (IJf reported). Cockfield, W. Walker, Hon. Secretary *Croxdale Colliery Easington, Artbur W. Emerson ^ Hon. Secretary Edmundbyers, Sbotley Bridge, Tbe Eev. R. Yau^ban, Cbair- man Eggleston, Folly Top (l,000ft„ above sea level), notified by tbe Rev. Beaumont Johnson *Hett, Jobn Glear, Hon. Secretary (5 fires seen) Hougbton-le-Spring Jarrow, W. Lam.b and J. W= Sowerby, Hon. Secretaries Middieton-in-Teesdale, Harter Fell (2,000ft. above sea level), built by George Hodsman Stainton and Streatbam Steeton Tbornley (24ft. bigb), fired by Miss Curry, William Laidler, Hon. Secretary Warden Law, Mrs. Gregson's fire Winlaton-on-Tyne, Herbert W. Grace, Cbairro.aii ES88X (22 reported). *Asbingdon, Rocbford, Hug Barnes, Hon. Secretary Barking Booking Brentwood Brentwood, Sbenfield Common Cbingford Cbipping Hill Dunmow Hainault Forest Harold Wood Hatfield Heatb Heybridge Higb Beech Mistiey Mountressin.g Ramsden Heatb .m^, E. S. H. Judd, Hon, Secretary Soutb Benfleet Soutbend-on-Sea Stanford-le-Hope, Pickett's Hill (400ft.), (20ft. bigb), fired by Mrs. Worster, C. L. Webster, Hon. Secretary Yan^e Hall Hill lam 39 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Gloucestershire (J^S reported). *Alniondsbury (35ft. higli), built by E. Tbeobald, fired by Mrs. MacWatters, F. Biss, Hon. Secretary Apperley Asbelwortb Beckford Bibury, Eeady John Field (493ft. above sea level), (30ft. to 40ft. bigb), (Bibury, Coin S Aldazus, Hathways, Querring- ton, Barnsiey, and Winsor), lit by Miss Kathleen G. M. Comely Bourton Hill Bourton-on-tbe-Waters Broad Campden Cbosen Hill Churcbdown Cleeve Prior Coleford Coin, St. Denis Cooper's Hill Cowley Cowley, Birdlip Common (1,000ft. above sea level), 21ft. high (4 or 5 fires seen), Q-. E. Cook, Hon. Secretary Crickley Doverov/ Hill Dumbleton Harton and Little Sodbury (30ft. bigb), 17 fires seen, H. W. L. Harford, Hon. Secretary *Knole Cricket Club, built and fired by the Hon. Secretary, H. G. Broad Leckbampton Long Asliton, Asbton Hill, J. W. Stagg, Hon. Secretary Mangotsfield, Eodway Hill Meon Hill Mincbinbampton Common Misenden, W. Timms, Hon. Secretary Newnliam, Clay Hill, material provided by E. J. Kerr, fired by Mrs. Kerr, John Da we, Hon. Secretary Norton Hill, near Gloucester (27ft. high), lit by Mrs. G. N. Walker, H. C. Bailey, Hon. Secretary Olveston (20ft. bigb), built under the direction of C. F. Yowles, from material given by E. Cann Lippincott, C. E. Turner, and J. Ken worthy, fired by Miss Elma Salmon (20 fires were seen), F. Olive, Hon. Secretary Painswick Penpole Point Eedmarley Euardean Selsley Common Stinchcombe Hill Stonehouse, Leonard Stanley, notified by A. Bonsey Stow in the Wold, Wyck Beacon, notified by the Eev. P. H. Kempthorne (37 fires seen) Tew^kesbury Park Winchcombe Withington Wormington Alresford Hampshire (^3 reported). Ashmansworth Andover (30ft. high), F. 8haw, Hon. Secretary S. Basingstoke, built by Clavell Salter, M.P. 40 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Hampshire — Continued . Beacon Hill Boldre, Lymington Bourne, St. Mary * Croft on Droxford (422ft. above sea level), lighted by Boy Scout Bertie Page, John Wiltshire, Hon. Secretary (7 fires seen) Dummer Clump (600ft. above sea level), T. A. Cooper, Hon. Secretary Hordean, Chatton Windmill Hordle Hursley Park, Winchester Lighook, Weaver's Downs Lower Faringdon, Berry Hill, wood supplied by Montague Knight, A. Lee, Hon. Secretary Milton Newton Valence, Alton Onslebury, Winchester Otterbourne Hill (250ft. above sea level), (35ft. high), fired by Miss Mary Chamberlayne, E. Dennis, Chairman (8 fires seen) Petersfield, Bulser Hill (900ffc. above sea level), H. W. Post- gate, Hon. Secretary Shawford Down Stoner Hill (720ft. above sea level), near Froxfield, J. Silvester, Hon. Secretary (9 or 10 fires seen). Yateley Herefordshire (21 reported). Birley Hill (700ft. above sea level), Gerald A. Woodgate, Hon. Secretary (22 fires seen) Brampton Hill Bucknell, Stow Hill Canon Frome Croft, Bircher Common Eardisland, Sugar Loaf Hill Eastnot, Eagged Stone Hill Goodrich, Ross Hampton Court Hereford, Saddlebow Hill (900ft. above sea level), notified by the Rev. R. P. Dansey Kentchurch, Garway (1,203ft. above sea level), organised by A. S. Wood, notified by the Rev. R. P. Dansey Kington, Bradnor Hill Knill Garaway (1,450ft. above sea level), notified by Sir John Walsham Leintwardine Leominster *Longtown, notified by A. Johnston, Hon. Secretary Ross, Perrystone Hill, built by F. W. Herbert, notified by General Clive (20 fires seen) Rowlstone Tedstone Court (550ft. above sea level), built by H. A. Belville *Thurlstone (800ft. above sea level), notified by R. A. Goddard Upper Dinmore 41 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Hertfordshire Barnet, Arkley (470ft. above sea level), (30ft. hi^h), notified by W. A. Yaughan Braugbing Bnsbey Heatb (14ft. bigb), built and fired by H. Gwyther, Jones Essenden, built by workmen on Mrs. Culling's Estate, material partly provided by Marquis of Salisbury, H. Wilson, Hon. Secretary Great Amwell ('20ft. bi^b), E. W. Cbaplin, Hon. Secretary Hadley Green Hanbrid^e Common Hatfield (18 reported). Hemel Hempstead, Eougbdown Common *Hertford Heatb (55ft. bigb), Gilbert Lyne, Cbairman Hogbam Hill Old Hall, Ware, St. Edmund's College, notified by Rev Bernard Ward (8 fires seen) Patmore Heatb Radlett *Eoyston, One Hill, J. Halstead, Hon. Secretary Standon, Ware Tring, Hill Field (32ft. bigb), notified by Eicbardson Carr Weston, Telegrapb Hill (750ft. above sea level), notified by M. E. Prior Huntingdonshire (^ reported). Kimbolton level), built by Mr. Banks, St. Neots, Ward's Hill (between ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^' ^' ^^^^^' ^°^- 200ft. and 300ft. above sea Secretary Isle of Man (1 reported). Douglas, built by Boy Scouts Isle of Wight (8 reported). Asby Down, Eyde Brigbstone, Eow Down, notified by Miss I. M. Silver, E. Buckett, Jun., Hon. Secretary Brooke Cbale, St. Catberine's Down (800ft. above sea level), noti- fied by H. Way, A. Spanner, Hon. Secretary Fresbwater, Tennyson's Peak, notified by Lord Tennyson Landguard Manor Eookley Sbanklin Down Kent (44- reported). Asbford, Brabourne Downs Asbford, Egerton Hill, notified by Eev. F. Douglas Eobinson, Hon. Secretary (6 fires seen) *Baybam (33ft. bigb), built by Lord Camden, notified by C. M. E. Cleeves Beckenbam 42 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Kent — C ontinuecl . Benenden Betliersdoii, Ashford *Bexley Heath, built by Messrs. F. Butler, C. Colvill, Mann, Knott, Oliver, and Wilkins, fired by Mrs. Downey, Mrs. Harston, Mrs. Reid, and Miss MacDonald, notified by Rev. F. de Castells Borougb Green, Crow Hill (40ft. high), notified by W. A. Tborne, Hon. Secretary Brasted, Toys Hill, notified by Owen Fleming Canterbury, Crow's Hill, fired by the Mayoress Charing Chilham Cranbrook Cranbrook, Hartley Hill Dover, Bay Hill, notified by T. W. Cavanagh, T. T. Bettridge, Hon. Secretary East Peckham Faversham, Dunkirk (20ft. high), notified by Rev. W. J. Springett Grove Park Hollingbourne Hill Horsmonden, Scott's Tower Hill (30ft. high), notified by Rev. H. F. Smith Marriott (17 fires seen) Hunton, Barn Hill (350ft. above sea level) (40ft. high), A. L. Thomas, Hon. Secretary Ightham Kin^sdown, Sevenoaks Lamberhurst Downs, notified by B. Doggett Markbeech, Hoppers Bank Otford Mount Piatt Ramsgate, Cliffs End Rochester (lT5ft. above sea level), fired by the four daughters of the Mayor, notified by A. Kennette Sevenoaks, Goathurst Common (600ft. above sea level), noti- fied by S. Williams Sheldwick Leys, notified by C. - J. Cooper, H. Jackson, Hon. Secretary Shepherdswell *Southward Lee (30ft. high) built by Alderman W. H. L3 May, Chairman St. Mary's Cray, Kevington Park Thurnham Castle Hill, North Downs (600ft. above sea level), notified by M. Hampson, Chairman Tonbridge Westgate-on-Sea Windmill Hill Woodchurch Ashford, Lane Field, W. C. Doughty, Hon. Secretary Woolwich, Tudor's Hill Wouldham, Rochester, built by H. Peters, E. Storey, Hon. Secretary Wrotham Heath Wrotham, Hexy Down (46ft. high), built by owner of land. Sir Mark Collet, Bart., notified by H. F. Capper Upper Hardres, Canterbury, Pear Tree Farm, built by E. Miles, Jun. 43 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Lancashire (52 reported). *Aspull Moor, near Wigan (30ft. high), built by Boy Scouts, fired by L. Athron, notified by E-. Armour, Hon. Secretary Bacup, Bunkers Hill Barrow-in-Eurness, notified by L. Hewlett Beacon Fell (20ft. high), near Preston, built by Boy Scouts, notified by W. E. Seymour, Hon. Secretary (15 fires seen"^ Billinge Hill, A. Darlington, Hon. Secretary Birkenhead, Mersey Park, H. R. Callagan, Hon. Secretary Bolton, G. J. French, Hon. Secretary Bolton-le-Moors, Great Lever (40ft. high), notified by the Eev. M. Patteson, W. Hard- man, Hon. Secretary Brathay, Skelwith Fold Breightmet Hill (557ft. above sea level), near Bolton, notified by Eev. G. E. Eees Brimley Bury, Fairground (40ft. high), fired by Councillor Sharp, Chairman, Mrs. vSharp, Coun- cillor and Mrs. Battersby Chapeltown, Edgworth, En- twistle, and Quarlton ; Crow- thorne (1,300ft. above sea level), J. Booth and A. E. Bostock, Hon. Secretaries Cheetham and Crumpsall, Alms Hill, A. Watkinson, Hon. Secretary *Clayton-le-Moors (21ft. high), fired by Mrs. Elce, W. Wood- head, Hon. Secretary (4 fires seen) *Clifton, near Manchester (50ft. high), built by Clifton and Kersley Coal Co., notified by J. Lee Wood Coniston Old Man (3 acetylene lamp flares) Dalton-in-Furness, Mouzell Hill, built by local Committee, J. Tyson, Hon. Secretary Deerplay Hill Finsthwaite, Gummershow, J. W. Mitchell, Hon. Secretary *Grange-over-Sands, Hampsfell Beacon, notified by G. Vickars-Gaskell Grange-over-Sands, Yewbarrow, above Witherslack *Heysham, fired by Miss Tomlin- son, W. D. "Elliott, Hon Secretary Holcombe Hill Hollins, J. W. Faulkner Kersal Moor Kirkham, Carr Hill, notified by Eev. Welbury T. Mitton Knipe Scar Longridge Fell (26ft. high), provided and notified by H. Y. Worsley-Taylor Lytham, built and notified by A. J, Price Mossley, Micklehurst, near Man- chester, H. Lawton, Hon. Secretary *Newchurch, Seat Naze, (990ft. above sea level) (25ft. high), built by local Committee, notified by M. Mitchell, Hon. Secretary Oldham, Henshaw Blue-Coat School (800ft. above sea level), notified by J. Whitmore Oldham, J. W. Falkirk, Hon. Secretary Orrest Head (7 fires seen) Pendle Hill (flare) Poulton, Brockholes Hill 44 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Eivington Pike (1,500ft. above sea level) (flare), notified by Miss D. M. Colman Eoyton, Tandle Hill E^usland, near Ulverston, Striceley, J. M. Collinson, Hon. Secretary Sandside Sawrey Shaw, near Oldham, F. F side, W. H. Seddon, Secretaries Silverdale, Castlebarrow Soiithport, Asliurst Beacon, notified by Rev. W. H. Skene Soutliport, Parbold Beacon (40ft Lancashire — Continued . built by residents, J. Briggs, Hon. Secretary (11 fires seen) Warrington, Hill Warren (on Mr. Lyon's Estate), notified by J. White Warton Crag, Carnforth, notified by Miss E. T. Wren Whitefield, Mansion House, Lily Hillj near Manchester (50ft high), built and notified by G. W. Yapp (27 fires seen) Ulverston, E. W. Poole, Hon. Secretary Ulverston, Hole Hill *Yealand Conyers, Carnforth, fired by Mr. Ford, T. Proctor, Hon. Secretary Gart- Hon. high), fired by Mrs. Threlfall, Leicestershire (27 reported) Ab-Kettleby, Melton Mowbray, notified by Rev. J. Pallister Arthingworth Asfordby Billesdon Coplow Bottesford, notified by Rev. Canon V. Jackson, T. G. Lovett, Hon. Secretary (10 fires seen) Bradgate Park, notified by Joseph North Breedon Hill Burrough Hill *Charnwood Forest, Beacon Hill Clack Hill Croft Hill Hinckley Hoby, near Leicester, notified by J. F. Grills Houghton on the Hill Leicester (2) Loughborough, Beacon Hill Melton Mowbray Mountsorrel Hill, notified by Joseph North Old John Pickwell (700ft. above sea level), notified by Eev. E. C. Giffitt, Hon. Secretary Queniborough, notified by Joseph North Ratcli:ffe College, notified by Joseph North Syston, near Leicester, notified by J. North (12 fires seen) Walton-on-the-Wolds, Lough- borough, 32 yards in circum- ference, high in proportion, fired by schoolgirl, Elsie Green, built by Rev. Montague Bird and helpers *Whitwick, High Tor Farm (800ft. above sea level), Charnwood Forest, notified by H. W. G. Howe, Hon. Secretary Wigston Magna 45 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Lincolnshire Alford, Miles Cross Hill, fired by E. Higgins and daughter, notified by W. H. Rawnsley, T. N. Loy, Hon. Secretary Alkborougb, Hill Top, notified by L. E/. Goulton Constable Barton-on-Humber, Beacon Hill, notified by W. A. Stow, Hon. Secretary- Boston Boston Spa, "Windmill Hill, notified by F. C. Ellis, Hon. Secretary Bourne, notified by Mr. Tom Hall Burton-upon-Statber Hill (210ft. above sea level), Doncaster, notified by Rev. Canon F. A. Jarvis, Hon. Ian Campbell, Hon. Secretary Burton, Waterloo Clump Cadwell, notified by Mrs. Pellew Caistor, notified by Walter Fagan (21 reported). Castle Bytbam, notified by T. E. C. Dinsdale Cleetborpes Gayton-le-Marsb (flare, Cburcb Tower), notified by Eev. H. G. Ker Hainton, notified by W. T. Elliot, Chairman Horncastle, The Won^, notified by J. Conway Walters Mablethrope Scremby, notified by E. D. Newman Spanby Hill (200ft. above sea level), fired and notified by W. A. Cragg Walesby, notified by Rev. L. B. Laurence Hon. Secretary (10 fires seen) Whitton, Stone Quarry Top, notified by L. R. Goulton Constable Wragby, Boy Scouts helped in the building, notified by Lady Mary Turner (7 fires seen) Middlesex Acton, North Acton (30ft. hi^h), built by Mr. C. J. Yorath, notified by J. F. Shillaker (T fires seen) Blackheath Brockley Hill Dulwich and Sydenham Golf Course Eaglesfield, Shooters Hill Ealing Common Farthing Downs, Cane Hill (16 reported). Hampstead Heath Hanger Hill (over 30ft.) high Harrow Weald, notified by Rev. W. H. Peers Honor Oak Le wish am Pinner Hill St. John Palmer's Green Cricket Club Streatham Common Winchmore Hill, Club Ground 46 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Norfolk (21 reported). Attleborougli, notified by A. Button, Chairman Aylsbam Beeston Hill Bungay, Hill Top Cromer Croxton (on Mr. W. D. Mackenzie's estate at his expense), notified by Mr. R. Meade Docking Elmbam Gayton Holt Hongingbam Hunstanton Hunstanton, St. Edmund's Point L\nn Mousebold Heath IS'ewton Flotnam Norwich *01d Buckenham, notified by H. Anderson, Hon. Secretary (4 fires seen) Sheringham Watton Woodbastwick Northamptonshire (36 reported). 'Apethorpe (36ft. high), on Mr. Leonard Brassey's Estate, notified by G-. Wilson Benefield Brackley Brampton Ash Catesby Chelvester Colly Weston, Stamford (over 300ft. above sea level), notified by Rev. W. McCarthy (3 fires seen) Cosgrove Earls Barton Eastoii, Stamford Ecton Fydon Flore, Weedon Geddington Grafton Regis Grantham, Black Firs Hill, Denton Manor Park (30ft. high), built by Sir Charles G. E. Welby, Bart., C.B., noti fied by J. Maltby Grendon Helidon, Daventry Ischester Istham Kettering Long Buckley Naseby Nassington jSTewnham Hill Oundle Piddington Pilton Spethorpe Spratton, built by Fire Brigade, notified by G. J. Yoss, Hon. Secretary (14 fires seen) Stamford, notified by C. Atter, Hon. Secretary Stanwick Stoke Bruern Sywell Thrapston Towcester 47 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Northumberland (18 reported). Allendale Allendale, Parmontley Hill Alnwick, Brizlee Hill, notified by L. E/. Pym Alnwick Castle (flare) Catton Beacon, Allendale Corbrid^e Fell, built and notified by A. D. Ker Felton *rourstones, Warden Hill, noti- fied by Mr. J. Bambrougb Kildbope Hill Milfield Hill, near Alnwick, notified hj G. Grey *]N'ewcastle, Cow Hill *Plaslietts, Nortb Tyne (on Duke of Northumberland's estate) (30ft. high), notified by W. Macreadie, Hon. Secretary Ponteland, Berwick Hill, noti- fied by Eev. F. W. Langton Ponteland, Milbourne, notified by Rev. F. W. Langton Biding Mill-on-Tyne, notified by Miss F. Wilson Shields Wallsend Wark-on-Tyne, Pasture House Hill, notified by E. Short- ridge, Hon. Secretary Nottinghamshir Bingham Bramcote, built by village carpenter, notified by Mrs. Smith Chilwell, notified by A. Mether- in^ham. Chairman East Bridgford, Trent Hills notified by A. D. Hill, Chair- man Huthwaite Ilkeston Louth Hill Q (16 rejyorted). Lowdham Mansfield Mansfield, Woodhouse Measley Newark Nottingham Serlby Euins (flare), on the estate of Viscount Gal way, notified by F. F. Parkin (8 fires were seen) Sutton, Coxmoor Whitweli Oxfordshire (19 reported). Alvescot, notified by A. H. Henley-on-Thames, Butler, Hon. Secretary Caversham Charlbury Chastleton Chipping Norton Gray's Pond Clumps Headington Fawley Court (between 40ft. and 50ft. high), on W. Dalziel Mackenzie's estate, and notified by him Ipsden, Warren Hill, on Mr. Hartnoll's Farm, and notified by him Islip 48 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Oxfordshire — Continued. Kirklinton Sibford Ferris Lewknor, Beacon Hill Wattington, Chilterns Nettlebed, Windmill Hill Witney Shenton Hill Woodstock Shipton-under-Wychwood Rutlandshire (7 reported). Oakham *Stoke Dry, Uppingliam (20ft. kigh), notified by Kev. O- Thurston Wkissendene Shropshire (3^ reported). Llantmynecb Hill Ayston Bursley-on-tbe-hill Exton Hambleton *Acton Burnell (on kill 800ft. above sea level), (45ft. kigk), on Sir Walter Smytke's estate, built by E. Post (22 fires seen) Biskops Castle Bridgnortk, Higk Rock Broseley Caer Caradoc Ckurck Stretton Cleodwry Mortimer Clun, Eock Hill Corra, organised by Captain H. Heywood on kis Lonsdale Cloverley estate, notified by A. P. Percy Dawley Egmont, Newport Forton, Sutton Hill Great Ness Higkley (372ft. above ^ea level), 25ft. kigk, notified by W. Cole, Jun., Hon. Secretary Kemberton Kinlet, Knowle Hill (760ft. above sea level), on Mrs Ckikle's estate, fired bv Mrs. Ckilde, notified by S. Smitk, J. Smitk, Hon. Secretary (30 fires seen) Knowleton 49 Ludlow, Wkitclif e Hill Madeley Meadow-Pit Mount Muck Wenlock, Tickwood Hill, notified by G. G. P. Heywood Muck Wenlock, Windmill Hill, notified by G. G. P. Heywood Oswestry, Eace Course Hill Pontesbury Skrewsbury Tke Stiperstone Upton Magna, Hau^kmond Hill Weston, on Lord Bradford's estate (28ft. kigk), notified by tke Countess of Bradford, Mr. Tkomas, Hon. Secretary (14 fires seen) Weston Skipnal Wkinted Old Hall^ notified by A. P. Spencer Wkitckurck, Grins Hill, notified by A. P. Spencer Wkitckurck, Jubilee Park, built by Mr. E. Jones, notified by A. P. Spencer Wrekin, built by Lord Barnard (on portion of kill belonging to kim), notified by B. Carver THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Somerset (45 reported). AdcombeHill, Blackdown E-ang^e Bath, Bannerdown Bathford Brent Knoll, fired by Miss Brain, non Treasurer, notified by J. W. Papillon, F. Body, Hon. Secretary (39 fires seen) Bridgwater, Cannington Park Beacon, notified by A. Berry, Cbairnian Bristol, Newton Park (Earl Temple's estate), notified by Rev. P. L. Bagley (41 fires seen) Brusliford, Hulverton Hill, noti- fied by 11. Hodge, Hon. Secretary Buckland Hill, Chard Burrowbridge, Bridgwater, noti- fied by the Yicar (38 fires seen) Cheddington Collard Point, Street Combe Down Congersbury, Cadbury Hill, notified b;^ Eev. E! H. M. Eyre, Chairman Gorton, Denham Beacon, Eev. A. B. Portman, Hon. Secretary (50 fires seen) Cuckfield Culmstock Beacon Dunster, Dunkery Beacon (40ft. high), built by Local Com- mittee, fired by Miss Winifred Bouverie, notified by W. J. Forey, Hon. Secretary (25 fires seen) East Chinnock, near Yeovil, notified by the Eev. J. D. D. Keiler (20 fires seen) East Coker, Yeovil, Birt's Hill, on Mrs. Heneage's estate, notified by M. Dickinson Flax Bourton, Backwell Hill (600ft. above sea level), notified by A. E. Eobinson Grlastonbury Haddon Hill Hatch Beauchamp, Hestcombe Hill, notified by T. Hunter, Hon. Secretary (60 fires seen) Hockworthy, Chimney Down Langport Limpley Stoke, Bath Martock, notified by Eev. E. Harrison Nunney, Frome, notified by C. Mann, Hon. Secretary Pickeridge Hill Pitney Quantocks Shepton Mallet, Malsbury Eing *Taunton, Georges (23ft. high), built on his own estate and notified by E. Clatworthy Thornhill Clump Wedmore Wellington, Wellington Monu- ment Hill, notified by E. Lee Mitchell West Coker, Yeovil, notified by Eev. L. E. Cotter West Monkton (lighted early in the day by mischievous person), notified by Miss M. Meade- King Weston-super-Mare, fired by daughter of J. Jackson Barstow, notified by J. J. Leaver, Hon. Secretary Winscombe, Wavering Down, notified by J. Amesbury, Hon. Secretary Winsford Hill 50 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. SOMEUSET^ Withycombe, Eire Beacon Hill, built by Boy Scouts (25ft. bigb) (4 fires seen) Wivelscombe -Continued. Wraxall Hill Yeovil, Kin^sclon Hill, notified by A. R. Graliam Staffordshire (38 reported). Barr Beacon Bilston Brewood Brierley Hill, notified by Eev. W. y. B. Morris Brownbills Cadsall Wood Cheadle Colton, The Martbin Crewe Denstone College, W. S. Airy, Hon, Secretary Endon Eradeswell Hanley Honington Leek, Gun, notified by H. Hensbaw ,, Artillery Headquarters, 3rd ' Staffs. Battery E.F.A., Leek, B. JNTicbolson, Hon. Secre- tary, notified by H. Hensbaw Hillswood, built by Boy Scouts, notified by H. Hensbaw Kniveden, built by Boy Scouts, notified by H. Hensbaw (16 fires seen) Stanlow, notified by H. Hensbaw J J Lichfield with Aldershaw, Hare- hurst Hill (40ft. high), noti- fied by H. H. Brown, Hon. Secretary (20 fires seen) Lichfield, Beacon Hill Longton Madeley Newcastle-under-Lyme, Maer Penn Fields E-angemore, organised by Dowager Lady Burton, W. Bennett, Hon. Secretary Rugeley Sedgley Beacon, notified by W. A. Foster Shobnall, Sinai Hill Smethwick South Staffordshire Waterworks, Burton *Stoke-on-Trent, built by Boy Scouts, fuel given by H. J. Warrington, notified by W. N. G. Stocker, Hon. Secretary Swinscoe (1,050ft. above sea level), built by villagers. Miss M. Young, Hon. Secretary, notified by H. G. Okeover Tamworth Tettenhall Uttoxeter Waterloo Mount Wickley 51 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Suffolk (19 Aldeburgh Beccles Bramford, near Ipswich, notified by C. H. Sliipston, Hon. Secretary Bungay Burstall Felixstowe Framlingham Hopton Laxfield Layer Breton Common reported). Leiston Lowestoft Mendham Mildenham Plymton Saxmundham Shelley, Hadleig:h, notified by Miss A. de la Court Thurlow Wortham, Long Green, notified by Mrs. E. Fearon, C. Rash, Hon. Secretary Surrey Aibury and Chilworth, The Pilgrim's Way, notified by F. Williams Wynn Badshot Lea, Shepherd King, Hon. Secretary Banstead Bourne, Farnham Caterhani, Old Pilgrim's Way Cobham, notified by W. H. Leuchars Croydon, Duppas Hill (^TOft. high), built on instructions from Mr. E. F. Morgan, and under Mr. H. Martin's super- intendence Ewhurst, Pitch Hill Frensham, fired by Lady Constance Combe, notified by R. Combe, Hon. Secretary, Commander T. Biscoe, R.N. (12 fires seen) Frimby, Chobham Ridges, noti- fied V Rev. M. Robbins Godalming Guildford, Merrow Downs, notified by the Earl of Onslow Haslemere, Blackdown, notified by Lord Tennyson Hindhead, Gibbet Hill (35 reported). Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Holmbury Hill, notified by R. W. Peacock, Hon. Secretary Holmwood Common (390ft. above sea level) (20ft. high), built by Captain Ayrton and Mr. T. Risbridger, notified by S. D. Secretan, Hon. Secretary (5 fires seen) Leatherhead Mitcham *New Maiden, Beverley Park, fired by Miss K. Mursell. notified by J. W. Johnson, Hon. General Secretary North Wallington, Beddington Corner Ockley, Oakwood Hill Pyrford, near Woking, notified by Rev. J. F. Osborne Red-Hill Common Reigate Hill Rivershill Runfold, near Farnham, Shep- herd King, Hon. Secretary Sanderstead (550ft. above sea level), South Croydon, notified by S. Bowman Shere 62 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. SuEBEY — Continued. South Wallington, Woodcote E/Oad *Sutton, Eose Hill (50ft. high), built of material chiefly given by Messrs. Brock & Co., under the superintendence of Mr. W. Hedley, fired by Mrs. H. W. Turner Tongham, Hog's Back (450ft. above sea level), Poyle Park, Sussex (97 Aldrington Beach, Hove, organised by the Mayor Amberley Mount, organised by L. Harrison Barcombe, Crink Field, Eev. C. Toogood, Hon. Secretary Battle, Caldbec Hill Bexhill, A. B. Lawson, Hon. Secretary Billinghurst Bishopstone, Eookery Hill, organised by A. Cooper Blackboys, organised by T. Farrow Brede, Gr. H. Harvey, Hon. Secretary Brightling Brighton, Eace Hill, organised by H. Talbot Burwash, organised by W. Bennett Bury Hill, organised by the Duke of Norfolk, K.G. (Col. Mostyn, Stevv^ard) Buxted, organised by the local Committee Chailey, jN'orth Common, A. Philpot, Hon. Secretary Cophatch, Eusper, organised by W. Martin Cowfold, organised by H. C. Leister built and notified by Dr. H. M. Chester (6 fires seen) West Cobham, High Curley Hill, notified by Eev. M. Eobbins Wimbledon Common Wisby, near Eipley, notified by Eev. J. F. Osborne Wynhurst, Cranleigh reported). Crowborough Beacon Cuckfield Park, C. Hobson and E. E. Morfee Dallington, organised by W. J. Peploe Denton, Mount Pleasant, A. E. Hughes, Hon. Secretary Ditchling Beacon (813ft. above sea level), organised by Mrs. Lane Eartham, Long Down (30ft high), organised and notified by W. B. M. Bird Eastbourne, back of Paradise, A. E. Y. Dennis, Hon. Secretary East Dean, Halnaker Hill, organised by Hussey Freke East Grinstead Fairlight Down, North's Seat, A. F. Wood, Chairman Firle Beacon (718ft. above sea level), organised by local Committee Fletching, G. Fenner, Hon. Secretary Flimwell Hill, organised by Yiscount Goschen Frant Common, W. H. Bassett, Hon. Secretary Fulking Hill, organised by local Committee 53 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Sussex — Continued. Glynde, Mount Caburn, organ- ised by Admiral, the Hon. T. S. Brand, E.N. Hadlow Down, A. E. Smith, Hon. Secretary Halland, organised by Eev. H. Harbord Hartfield, Castle Mound, built by boys and stafi, VVindlesham House, Brighton, one man and some village boys (all Boy Scouts) (18ft. high), heard signal rocket from Crystal Palace Harting, West Harting Down (708ft. above sea level), 35ft., organised and notified by C. J. P. Cave Hastings, Baldslow Mill, noti- fied by H. E. Stevens, Hon Secretary Hastings, West Hill, organised by Borough of Hastings Heathfield, organised by G. H. B. Peters Henfield, organised by local Committee Hurstpierpoint, Danny, notified by P. W. Scott Jarvis Brook, Chapel Green (700ft. above sea level), (46ft. high), W. Troy, Chairman Lancing Clump, organised by W. Philips Lavington, Teglease Beacon (837ft. above sea level), organ- ised by J. Buchanan Leonardslee, Pring's Hill, organ- ised by Sir Edmund Loder, Bart., F. D. Godman, etc. Lewes Eace Hill, organised by Lewes Borough (M. S. Blaker, Town Clerk) Linch Ball (818ft. above sea level), organised by Lord Cowdray, H. Ereke, Steward Little Beding Little Common, E. Card, Hon. Secretary Lower Beeding, Holmbush, organised by Colonel Clifton Brown Lurgashall, Blackdown Hill, organised by Lady Philipson Stow Madehurst, Eore Hill, organised by C. J. Fletcher Mark Cross, organised by local Committee Mark Cross, organised by Eev. J. Price Mayfield, Five Ashes, organised by local Committee Midhurst Common, C. Spring, Hon. Secretary Mountfield, John's Cross, organised by H. K. Bracewell, Hon. Secretary Mount Harry (639ft. above sea level), E.' C. Knight, Hon. Secretary Newhaven, Beacon Hill, J. J. Lines, Hon. Secretary Newhaven, Eushey Hill Newick, organised by local Committee Old Erringham, Shoreham, organised by A. W. Nye Pett, W. Colgate, Hon. Secretary Petworth Park, organised by Lord Leconfield ( — Watson, Agent) Pevensey, Eecreation Ground, notified by G. Penfold, Hon. Secretary 54 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Sussex — Continued. *Pulborougli, Beedings (360ft. above sea level), fire on plat- form on house turret, secondary fires on other turrets, built, fired, and noti- fied by J. Hartry, owner of house Pulborough, H. Sandilands, Hon. Secretary Hodwell, Mill Hill, organised by C. Groves Rottingdean, Beacon Hill, E.. Biffen, Hon. Secretary Rye Hill, organised by the Town Clerk, W. Dawes Seaford Head, organised by local Committee Sedlesconibe, J. Byner, Hon. Secretary Selsey Bill, J. Fisher, Hon. Secretary *Sharpenhurst Hill, organised by E.ev. Dr. Upcott, built by Christ's Hospital boys (3 fires seen) Sidlesham, W. J. Ide, Hon. Secretary Slinford, Hayes Hill, T. Knight, Assistant Secretary South Downs Southwick Steyning Eound Hill, H. E. Oliver, Hon. Secretary St. Leonards, L. J. Boorman, Hon. Secretary Telscombe, organised by C. Beard, notified by A. Gorham (20 fires seen) Warwickshire (38 reported). The Trundle (677ft. above sea level), organised by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, K.G., H. Freke, Steward Ticehurst, organised by Dr. Newington TJckfield, G. E. Hart, Hon. Secretary Wadhurst Beckley, Best Beech Hill, Mrs. Pearson and H. Forbes-Bentley, Hon. Secre- taries Waldron, Cross-in-Hand, M. H. Kenward, Hon. Secretary Warnham, organised by Sir Henry Harben Warninglid Beacon, organised by J. J. Lister Washington, Highden Down (667ft. above sea level), organised by Major-General R. T. Godman West Dean, Seaford, organised by J. G. Burgess West Dean, Bow Hill (624ft. above sea level), organised by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, K.G. Westfield Downs, organised by local Committee West Hoathly, Bow Field, Mr. Cockshott, Hon. Secretary Windmill Hill Beacon, organised by H. Curteis Wiston Hill (688ft. above sea level), organised by C. Goring Wolstonbury (600ft. above sea level), organised by Campion, C.B. Alcester Anstey Atherstone, notified by Mr. C. B. Coxon Beaudesert Hill Bidford-on-Avon, Marriage Hill, notified by G. H. Fosbrooke, Chairman (14 fires seen) 55 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Warwickshire — Continuecl . Bradford-oil- Avon, notified by W. C. Dotesio, Hon. Secretary Brailes Brinklow Brow Top Campion Hill Colesliill Colliers Oak, Fillongley Cookhill Coventry Diinckurcli Edge Hill, Eadwray Great Akne Hatton, Warwick, notified by W. S. Sbreeve, Hon. Secretary Henley-in-Arden Higk Ask Hunnin^kam Hmington Westmorland (24 reported) Itckington, Castle Hill Kineton Leamington Ligktkome Napton Eodborougk Rugby Skipston-on-Stour, Wkickford Hill (780ft. above sea level), notified by Eev. T. D. Haikes Sontkam Sutton Coalfield Switterfield Tackbrook Tysoe Upper vSkuckingkam, Beacon Hill Tardley Yarningdale Hill ♦Ambleside, Lougkrig^ Fell (25ft. kigk), partly built by Boy Scouts, notified by W. L. Mason and W. Ho^g, Hon. Secretaries, fired by Scout-Master Huddlestone Appleby, Gallows Hill, notified by W. Hewitson, Hon. Secretary Beatkwaite Green, notified by W. C. Slingsby Brougk, Tox Tower, fired by Mr. Ward, Hon. Secretary, notified by J. G. Reynoldson Brougk, Malplaquet, fired and notified by J. G. Reynoldson, Brougk Sowerby Crosby Garret Bufton Pike, notified by C. Liddle. Hon. Secretary Grasmere, Silver How, built by Messrs. J. Davidson and W. Hall, fired by Mr. Fuller, Ckairman *Heverskam Head, Miss Watson notified by Hilbeck and Brougk Kaber Kirkby Stepken, Hartley Birkett, notified by W. W. Hallam and C. Hanker, Hon. Secretaries Kirkby Stepken, Victoria Park *Milntkorpe, Haverbrack Bank (over 359ft. above sea level) (35ft. kigk), on St. Maurice Bromley-Wilson's estate, noti- fied by L. Nanson (9 fires seen) Milntkorpe, Haverbrack Beacon, notified by E. L. D Mc.Naugkton, Hon. Sec. 56 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Westmorland- Orton Scar Sliap, Hardendale Nab, fired by G. L. Toppin, notified by J. Hosterne, Hon. Secretary Slea^ill XJndermillbeck, Windermere, notified by Sir James Scott Warcop -Continued. Warcop, Fair Hill, Brough Hill, notified by J. Longstaff, Hon. Secretary Whinfell, near Kendal Whitbarrow Fell (20ft. bigb), notified by W. C. Slingsby, Winster, notified by tbe E.ev. E. H. Cock Wiltshire (34 reported). Alderholt, Salisbury, King Barrow, notified by Rev. J. E- Sanderson, Chairman Bisbopstone Bisbopstone, Folly Banks, near Swindon, fired by J. Povey, notified by Mrs. Hedges, W. Moore, Hon. Secretary Bishopstrow, Warminster, Battlesbury Hill, built by tbe Hon. II. Holmes a Court; Hon. Secretary, fired by Mrs. Erskine, notified by E-ev. G. Atwood *Brembill Burcombe, Punclibowl *Calne, Oldbury Castle (827ft. above sea level), (38ft. bigb), built by tbe Marquis of Lansdowne and Major Hene- aa^e, notified by E,ev. S. Firman Clyffe Pypard, notified by E. Mitcbard and F. E. Watts, Hon. Secretaries (26 fires seen) Codford, Claypit Hill, Cbitterne (586ft. above sea level), fired and notified by Rev. J. T. Canner Codfortb, Tbe Clump Colerne, notified by J. Wilson, Hon. Secretary Conley, Cley Hill East Knoyle Garsdon, Malmesbury Hinton Parva, Sbalborougb Hill Kingsclere Lyddington, Beacon Hill Lyddington Castle (20ft. bigb), Major J. Cecil Wilson, Hon. Secretary (20 — 30 fires seen) Lydiard Millicent Market Lavington *Marlborougb, notified by R. Mc. G. Diamond Mere, Castle Hill Pavenbill, Purton Radbourne Cheney Salisbury, Barfold Down, noti- fied by Rev. A. Cecil Dixon Salisbury, Cholderton Salisbury, Harnham Hill (40ft. high), fired by the Mayor, W E. M. George, Hon. Secretary Salisbury, Hill Crest Salisbury Plain, Beacon Hill Seend, Melksham, notified by A. Schomberg Urchfont (700ft. above sea level), Devizes, fired by Mrs. Rutland, notified by Rev. Dr. J. Hamlyn Hill (40 fires seen) Warminster " White Horse," Bratton Hills Wylye, fired and notified by Rev. G. R. Hadow (14 fires seen) 57 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Worcestershire (40 reported). Abberley Hill Abberton Beoley Birlingham Blockley Bredon Hill Bredon Norton Bricklebampton Broadway (1,045ft. above sea level) (30ft. liigh), F. Morgan, Chairman, H. Gill, Hon. Secretary *Bromsgrove (30ft. bi^-li), notified by F. G. Maylett, Hon. Secretary Buckland Hill, Cotswolds Cburcbill, near Kidderminster, fired by Mrs. Trow, notified by Rev. H. L. T. Sculthorpe (12 fires seen) Cookbill Dudley Enville Evesbam, notified Cleeve Prior Hill, by H. G. Hiorns, Miss Holtom, Hon. Secretary (21 fires seen) Feckenbam *rrancbe Hall, Kidderminster Frankley Hampton Cbarles and Bockleton, Bockleton Grove, built by Mr. Prescott's woodmen, notified by F. E. Prescott (23 fires seen) Hanbury Hanbury, Park Hill Inkberrow Kidderminster *Malvern Beacon Martley Mucklows Hill Worton-Lenchwick *01dbury. Bury Hill Park (40ft. high) Paxford Redditcb Rounds Green Shenberrow, Cotswolds, notified by P. J. Pelly (10 fires seen) Sbipston-on-Stour Stoke Prior Stourbridge, Clent Hill (1,000ft. above sea level), (30ft. bigh), built by Lord Cobbam's bead- woodman. Lord Cobham Chairman, notified by J. Amphlett and J. Rawson Hon. Secretary The Lickey Tividale near Dudley Witley, Woodbury Hill (900ft. above sea level), (26ft. high), built under direction of Mr. J. B. Braid ^ (Lord Dudley's forester), notified by Rev. R. A. Wilson, C. H; Bartlett, Hon. Secretary (30 fires seen) Wood Norton Yorkshire (163 reported). Abberley Ampleforth, Beacon Hill Ampleforth, College Grounds' Ardsley, A Wollerton, Hon. Secretary Atherton Moor Baildon, Hope Hill *Bramham Moor, F. C. Ellis, Hon. Secretary 68 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. YoRKSHiRi: — Continued Brandsby Barnsby, Ton Yat Field Barnsley, Queen's Ground, J. H. Taylor, Hon. Secretary Beverley and Little Weightoa, Hunsley Beacon, buLlt by Gr. P. Kellington, C. Lacy and the Eev. L. D. Hildyard, Hon. Secretaries Brandsby-cum-Stearsley, Snare- gate Hill (21ft. to 30ft. round and liigh in proportion), built by H. Cattling and S. Frank, Hon. Secretary, lit by Mrs. Fairfax Cliolmeley (many old beacon fires seen) Caulkless, Stonegrave Cawthorne, Bentclifte Hill (18ft. to 20ft. bigb), Jolin F. Fal- nasser, Hon. Secretary (5 or 6 fires seen) Charles Metcalfe's field, near Boonhill, Newton Cleasby, Cleasby Hill Cooper Moor Hill, Clougbton Cowesby, Bell's Intake, T. E. Parkinson, Hon. Secretary Crake, Easingwold, Castle Hiii, notified by C. Watson Craven Arms, Nordy Bank, the Eev. A. J. Knapton, Hon. Secretary Crompton, Woolmer Hill, F. F. Gartside, and W. H. Seddon, Hon. Secretaries *Cudworth (30ft. high), John Mason, Hon. Secretary (12 fires seen) Dacre Banks and Hartwith-cum- Winsley, Beacon Eock, Brim- ham Eocks, J. S. Garside and F. M. Bond, Hon. Secretaries Danby Beacon Darrington, Went Hill, James Gardner, Hon. Secretary Drighlington Moor, notified by the Vicar of Drighlington Easby Moor Easington, EawclifEe Beacon East Harsley, Westfield, notified by the Eev. C. Y. Collier Ellergate Hill, Lealhom Eston Nab, Eston Fad moor. Village Green Feather Hill Farm, Scorton Flamborough, L. M. Bailey, Hon. Secretary Flowson, Skelton-in-Cleveland ■^Gargrave, fired bv Lady Wilson, notified by J. Broughton Gayles, Gayles Moor Giggleswick Gilling, Scaur Hill Gisburn Glaisdale, Parliament Hill Glusburn, J. D. Horsfall, Hon. Secretary ^Grassington, Beacon Hill, fired by the Eev. B. J. Harker, Joseph Crowther, Chairman Great Ayton, Captain Cook's Monument, Waynman Dixon, Chairman Great Smeaton (on Col. Godman's estate), notified by Eev. P. E Wrench Great Smeaton, Pond Field, Home Farm (Col. Godman's Estate), notified by the Eev. P. E. Wrench Greenfield, Pots and Pans (50ft. to 60ft. high), notified by Benjamin Dransfield 69 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Yorkshire — Continued *Greetland, The Mount (12ft. high), r. J. Mallinson, Hon. Secretary Grosmont, Slag! Tip Grin^ley-on-the-hill, near Don- caster notified by R. Gristhorpe, Hallowes Hackness, notified by Miss J anet E. Leute Halifax Hawkser Heckmondwike, Cawley Hill, Charles Lister, Hon. Secretary Hedley Hope, built by school children, and fired by oldest boy and girl in elementary school, G. Tallentire, Hon. Secretary High Abbotside, Staggsfell Crag Hinderwell, Beacon Hill Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Beacon Hill (on Mrs. Harford's Estate) Holmfrith Holgate, notified by the Rev. H. Hewlett Holwick, Castle Hill Honley, John Thornton, Hon. Secretary Houston Hill, Skelton Hovingham, Stocking Hill Huddersfield, Clayton West, and High Hoyland, W. Sheard, Hon. Secretary Hutton-le-Hole, Village Green Hutton Rudby, Tillage Green Ingleby Arncliffe, notified by the Rev.' C. Y. Collier (26 fires seen) Ingleborough (Clapham and Ingleton), H. Harrison, Hon. Secretary *Ingleby-Greenhow (22ft. high), material provided by Lord He L'Isle and Dudley, P. Hunt- ingdon, Hon. Secretary Ingleby, Park JSTab Kildale, Park Nab Kirby Sigston, Beacon Hill Kirkbymoorside, Yivers Hill Kirkheaton, Roundabout, noti- fied by J. Wood, Hon. Secretary Kirkleathran, Yearby Bank Kirkheaton Kirklington, organised by F. Parker (5 fires seen) Lastingham, Lidster Hill Lease Rigg, Egton, Nanny Cooper's Hill Longpres'ton, W. Ward, Hon. Secretary Lunedale, Arthur Fell Lythe, Blue Bank Mailing Marton-cum-GraftoUj Grafton Hill, C. K. Peacock, Hon Secretary Marton-in-Craven, Whitecroft (650ft. above sea level), J. J. Thistlethwaite, Hon. Secretary Masham, Nutwith Common Melsonby, Keenleyside Field Meltham, Cop Hill, W. E. Carter, Hon. Secretary *Middlestown and Overton (42ft. high), Charles Young, Hon. Secretary Middleton, notified by F. Entwhistle 60 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Yorkshire- Milnsbridge, Crosland Hill, W J. Firth, Hon. Secretary Morley, F. Thackeray, Hon. Secretary Mulgrave, Lythe, Tommy Yatts Nawton, Kirkdale Manor Nether Thong, Wolfstones Height, notified by H. Mellor Newton-upon-Rawcliffe (650ft. above sea level), near Picker- ing, the Eev. D. C. Jones, Hon. Secretary Norland, near Sowerby Bridge, Nathaniel Binns, Hon. Secretary Normanby Hill, Eev. E. H. M. Jenkins, Hon. Secretary North Newbald, Dot Hill, noti- fied by the Eev. A. E. Shaw Nunnington, Cauksleys Hill Osmotherley, Spion Kop Pateley Bridge Pateley Bridge, Coldstones Hill, Greenhow Hill, fired by oldest man in the village, J. Storey, notified by the Eev. G. W. Elwell Penhill, near Middleton Penny How, near Whitby Pickering, Beacon Hill Pickering Knoll, Hovington Pontefract, Park Hill (286ft. above sea level), G. Spurr, Hon. Secretary *Pudsey, Greentop (27ft. high), fired by E. Hodgson, con- structed and notified by the builder, W. H. Shackleton Eastrick, Eound Hill, notified by H. Travis Clay Eavenscar, Staintondale, Cracrc: Hill ' ^^ —Continued Eedmire, Eedniire Scaur Eichmond Eonaldkirk, Low Green Eoyton, near Oldham, Ellis Harrison and H. Broadhurst, Hon. Secretaries Euston, Wykeham *Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Hob Hill (33ft. high), E. Wood, Jun., and J. Draper, Hon. Secretaries (3 fires seen) Seamer, Seamer Moor Beacon Sedbergh, Firbank, Chairman, C. W. Good Sedbergh, Middleton Fell, noti- fied by C. W. Good, Chairman Sedbergh, Winder, C. W. Good, Chairman Sheffield (4 bonfires), notified by E. M. Prescott Shepley, Nabscliffe (l,000fi:. above sea level), (30ft. high), built by Henry Senior, Henry Tyas, Hon. Secretary (40 fires seen) Silsden, A Haworth, Hon. Secretary Sinnington Sittenham, Ash Bank Skipton Skipton-in-Craven, Eylestone Fell, notified by G. E. Maude Sleights, E. Bell, Chairman Sneaton *Solberge, Newby Wiske (Mr. Hutton's fire), notified by J. Hutton South Cowton, Attley Hill Springhead, Stonebreak Hill (850ft. above sea level), Frank Bullivant, Hon. Secretary 61 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. TonKSHiHE — Continued . *Stainborou^li, Barnsley Stainforth, near Settle, Winskill Scar, W. Mosley Perfect, Hon. Secretary (5 fires seen) Staveley, Knaresboro, I. For- man, Hon. Secretary Steeton Streatlam and Stainton, F. W. Judson, Hon. Secretary Sr?f!ield-cum-Everley, SnfEeld Beacon Swinton, Rotherham, built by Boy Scouts, T. E. Rogers, Hon. Secretary Terrington, Pinfold Hill, noti- fied by T. J. Kinnear (10 fires seen) Tbackley (600ft. above sea level), Bradford (40ft. higb), fired by Alderman R. Johnson, E. Whitfield, Hon. Secretary Thirsk Thorner, Kirk Hills, A. Midge- ley, Hon. Secretary Thornton Dale, Lime Kilns Tickhill, AVillow Field, near Rotherham,, T. Dixon, Hon. Secretary Ugthorpe, Loose Howe, notified by R. Dobson (3 fires seen) *Wakefield, Sandal Hill (4qft. high), built under supervision of Mr. E. J. Spink, fired by the Mayor, Councillor White, and Councillor Foster, H. Coultish, Hon. Secretary Wakefield, Worsley Edge Beacon *Warmfield-cum-Heath, near Wakefield, Heath Common (30ft. high), fired by Ronald Bell, R. Kershaw, Hon. Secretary (4 fires seen) Welburn Wentworth Castle, Castle Hill near Barnsley, notified by W. J. Fisher Westerdale, Baysdale Hill West Tanfield, J. W. Heddon, Hon. Secretary Whitby, Swarthow Cross Winton, Longrig Scar, Joseph Balmer, Hon. Secretary Withernsea, A. A. Raper, Hon. Secretary Witton Fell (1,050ft. above sea level), J. Maughan, Hon. Secretary (14 fires seen) Woolley Edge (on Mrs. Went- worth's estate), notified by W. H. France- Wayhurst Wykeham, Wykeham Park *Yeadon (640ft. above sea level), fired by Mrs. C. F. Harrop, IN". Houlden, Hon. Secretary (over 30 fires seen) 62 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. English Coronation Bonfires, 1911 No. of N:of Caunliet. Fires. Countie$. Fires. Bedfordshire 3 Lincolnshire 21 Berkshire 19 Middlesex ... 16 Buckinghamshire . . . 14 Norfolk 21 Cambrido^eshire 9 Northamptonshire 36 Cheshire 22 Northumberland ... 18 Cornwall 46 Nottino-ham 16 Cumberland • • • 00 Oxfordshire 19 Derbyshire ... 81 Rutland 7 Devonsliire . . ... 276 Shropshire 34 Dorset 44 Somerset ... 45 Durham 14 Staffordshire 38 Essex 22 Suffolk 19 Gloucester ... 43 Surrey 35 Hampshire .. 23 Sussex 97 Herefordshire 21 Warwickshire 38 Hertfordshire 18 Westmorland 24 Huntingdonshire . . . 2 Wiltshire ... 34 Isle of Man ... 1 Worcestershire 40 Isle of Wight 8 Yorkshire . . . 163 Kent 44 Lancashire ... 52 Total 1565 Leicestershire 27 63 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. The Scottish Coronation Bonfires. (By Coi. H. M. Cadell, V.D., D.L., of Grange, Lmlithgow, Hon. Secretary, Coronation Bonfire Committee.) ^GOTLAND kindled many Beltane fires on Coronation night, ^nd ,JQ^ chains of blazing beacons crossed the land from shore to shore and encircled the rocky coast from Berwick to the north of Shetland and from Wigtown and the Solway to the remote Butt of Lewis in the IS'orth Atlantic. In the midst of an unusually fine summer it was unfortunate that the 22nd of June was almost the only rainy day. The clouds, happily, rolled off in the evening and the wind abated at most places, but the haze prevented many of the fires from being seen at great distances. The effect was thus not nearly so impressive as it was at the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, when the face of the land appeared sprinkled over with sparkling points and the smallest bonfires shone clearly for many miles. In 1897 the number of Scottish bonfires recorded was 305, and at last coronation 122, but this year the enthusiasm was so great that now 516 fall to be reported, and no doubt many more have escaped notice altogether. In a few districts county, town, and parish bonfire committees were appointed in response to the Central Committee's appeal, but the great majority of the bonfires were, as formerly, the work of landowners or private individuals assisted by parish ministers, boy scouts, or the officials and foresters on large estates. Many ancient beacon hills, long dark, shone out and answered to one another across the sea once more. The bonfire on Turnberry Hill recalled the stormy days of 600 years ago, when Robert the Bruce and his trusty warriors lay in Brodick Bay anxiously waiting for the signal fire on the 64 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Carrick coast to summon them, over to strike the blow for freedom and the Scottish Crown which changed the whole course of the country's history. " Their eyes oft turn'd where glimmer'd far What might have seem' d an early star On heaven' 3 blue arch, save that its light Was all too flickering, fierce, and bright. Far distant in the south, the ray Shone pale amid retiring day. But as, on Carrick shore. Dim seen in outline faintly blue, The shades of evening closer drew, It kindled more and more." Lord of the Isles, Canto V. The modern beacons no doubt burned much better than those of good King E/obert's day. The one which was erected by the Hon. Secretary on Bonnytoun Hill, on his estate in West Lothian overlooking the Firth of Forth, was 56ft. high and blazed so brilliantly for three hours that it was seen even in the thick weather by ships entering the Firth of Forth at the Bass Eock, 40 miles away. The highest bonfire in Scotland was built by the Broxburn Oil Coy. and the Boy Scouts, on the top of a huge "bing" or hill of oil shale refuse at Broxburn in Linlithgowshire, but being on a comparatively low geographical situation, it was not so conspicuous as some of the others. It was 60ft. high and, like all the most successful beacons, was constructed on the principle described metrically in the " Bonfire Ballad for Boy Scouts." The Falkirk Town Council in Stirling- shire erected a magnificent pile, 59ft. high, in one of the public parks, which was also an immense success, but owing to its low situation was not so well seen as many smaller beacons on more prominent sites. One bonfire at least was built on the wrong principle, and being made chiefly of coal, gave out little light. It was scarcely seen a few miles off, and continued to bum smokily for three days. The thanks of the Committee are due to the many correspondents, too numerous to recount, who have given information and assistance in the general scheme. But the positions of many of the bonfires have been obtained only from local newspapers, which gave few details, as the nocturnal illuminations often formed but the last item in a long day's 66 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. programme. On the whole, although some of the largest Scottish Cor- porations refused to take part, the bonfires were a great success and afforded a vast fund of innocent entertainment, particularly to the younger generation in the rural districts. Such a display, produced at no small expenditure of time and trouble by loyal and patriotic people, is Veil calculated to impress on the popular mind, apt to be too much wrapped up in purely material and sordid ideals, the memory of a great national event, a milestone in history passed only at rare intervals in the course of a single lifetime. The names of those who built or assisted to provide the bonfires are given as far as possible after the respective localities in the following list. The county of Argyll takes the first place with 62 beacons, and Inverness comes next with 50. The whole number (including some oil flares) is 516, distributed as follows: — SCOTLAND. An asterisk denotes that there is a photograph of this Bonfire. Aberdeenshire (24 reported). Aberdeen Aboyne Ardwell, Cabrach Auchterless Balbithan Hill, Kintore Bximmond Hill, W. Eankine Cairnie Clashmach, Huntly Corgarfi, Strathdon, Major Earquharson Coyles of Muick Craigbuie, Invercauld Craignaban, Abergeldie Craigowan Dunnydeer Hill, Insch Fyvie Gallowshill, Eothienorman Glentanar Knock-na-hare, Aberdour Lonack Hill, Strathdon, erected by tenants of Inverernan Estate Maud, Local Committee and Rev. W. Cowie Smallburn Hill, Jas. Eerguson, of Kinmundy Towie Tryst Hill, Monquhitter Turriff Argyllshire (62 reported). Achara, Duror of Appin, Col. Stewart of Achnacone Achintore Appin, Castle Stalcaire Appin, Island on Loch Eaich, Col. Stewart Ardchattan Hill, Taynuilt, H. C. Campbell Preston 66 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. AUGYLLSHIEE- Ardentinny, Capt. J. H. P. Leschellas Ardgour, Capt. Maclean of Ardgour Ardtornish Ballachulisli ,, North Ballinaby Banavie Battery Hill, Bowmore Beinn-nan-gTialainean, Colonsay Ben Tartaval, Islay Campbeltown, Ben Gullion, Local Committee, per D. Colville, jun. Campbeltown, Summer Hill, Local Committee Carrick Castle, Loch Goil Castle Rocks, Dunoon Cnock Engle, Lismore Cnoc-na-Cardoch, Kilmelford, Oban, per Rev. D. Macarthur Conaglen Corpach Craignish Crianlarich Cross Green, Inveraray Cruach Lerags, D. Mc.Ewen Dalmally Drinnen, Morven Drumnamucklach Hill, Killean Drynlea, Cumlodden, Sir A. N Campbell, of Succoth, Bart. Dun Corbal, Inveraray ■Continued. *Dun-I, lona Dunlossit Dun-Mac-Uisneachin, Benderloch Dunstaffnage, Campbell of Dun- staSnage Gallanach, Oban, W. Patten Macdougall, of Gallanach Gallows Knowe, Tiree Gigha, W. T. Yorke Scarlett Glendaruel Innellan Jura Kilmalieu, Ardgour, W. Gair Kilmaronaig, Connel, Capt. N. G. Macalister, R.N. Knockdon Mull— Aros House, A. Allan, of Aros Calgary Clach Maraig, Tobermory Kilfinichen Kilmaronaig Lochbuie Penmore Ross of Mull (2) Oransay Quinish, Dervaig Strathlachlan Strone, Loch Long Strone, Loch Striven Tomacharrich Tom-na-creige Uisguintuie Golf Course Ayrshire (29 reported). Ayr Beith, D. Gemmell Boydstone, Ardrossan, W. R. E, Alexander Castle Hill, Ardrossan, Local Committee Corsehill, Dreghorn Dalmellington, Ben Beoch (1521ft.), Local Committee ir THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Ayhshire — Continued . Dalmellington, Townshill, Local Committee, per Rev. Gr. S. Hendrie Dnndonald Pairlie (2) Girvan Goldenberry bride, Mrs. Irvine Kilwinning Knockdolian Largs Law Hill, West Kilbride, Mrs. Robertson of Orchard Hill, West Kil- Hunter- Weston Loudon Hill, Darvel Maucbline Maybole, Capt. H. E. Wallace New Cumnock, R. H. Gemmell Portincross Point, W. Adams Prestwick Saltcoats Skelmorlie Sornhill, Catrine Stevenston Troon, Ballastbank Turnberry, ancient beacon bill Balloch Hill, Keitb Boyndie Elf Hillock, Drummuir Banffshire (6 reported). Hill of Troup, Gamrie Yiewniount, Macduff Woodside. Aberlour Berwickshire Ayton Hill Bell Hill, St. Abb's, W. G. Burn-Murdocb Black Hill, Cowdenknowes, Col. C. Hope, of Cowdenknowes Boonhill, Lauder, Dr. R. Sbirra Gibb Cbesters, Lauder Cockburn Law, G. G. TurnbuU, of Abbey St. Batlians Darlingfield, Lord Binning Duns Law, F. S. Hay, of Duns castle Fans Hill Greenfield, E. Campbell Eenton, of Mordington, and Major J. B. Wilkie, of Foulden Greenlaw, JNTortb Moor (23 reported). Greenlaw, Soutb Moor Halidon Hill, notified by A. H. M. Weddell Harelaw Hill, Cbirnside, A. H. Mitchell-Innes, of Whitehall Hirsel Law, Earl of Home Kedslie Hill, Earlston, W. W. Eobertson Kyles Hill, Sir John Hume Campbell Lamberton Moor Langton Edge, Duns, Hon. Mrs. Baillie Hamilton Law Hill, Coldingham, Boy Scouts JSTewton Don, Nenthorn Eaecleugh Hill, Westruther Upsetlington Hill, Ladykirk 68 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Buteshire (10 reported). Ardmaleish Gt. Cumbrae Island Brodick Castle, Arran, Marcli- Kilchattan Bay (2) ioness of Graham Millport, Gt. Cumbrae Brodick, Arran Eotbesay (2) Corrie, Arran Caithness (6 reported). Castletown Spittal Hill, Halkirk, Local Dunnet Committee, per Alex. Gunn Mey, Local Committee, per N. Wartb Hill, Wick J. Leitch Westfield Clackraannanshire (3 reported). Alloa Menstrie Gloombill, E. M. Sutherland Dumbartonshire (13 reported). Aucbentorlie Estate, Bowling, Kilcreo^gan per E. M. Latta Kilmaronock Bonhill Overton (2) Condorrat Shandon Cove, Local Committee Tullicbewan, Ballocb, per E. M. Dumgoyne Latta Garsbake, Dumbarton Twecbar Dumfriesshire (27 reported). Annan, Boy Scouts *Hoddam, Ecclefecban Annandale: — *Lockerbie Ho., Colin Dunlop Bleeze Hill, Wampbray, Boy Matthew's Folly, Sanquhar, Scouts Local Committee, per T. G. Brunthill, Local Committee Salmon Skelton Hill, Applegartb and Moffat, Dumfriesshire County Sibbaldbie, Local Committee Bonfire Committee White Hill, Hulton & Corrie Moniaive Beattock Xithsdale : — Burnswark, St. Mungo, Sir E Barshall Camp, Tinwald W. Buchanan Jardine, Bart. Crossford Hill, Glencairn Carrutbers Hill, Middlebie Heskit Hill, Mouswald Chapel Hill, Moffat Wardlaw Hill, Caerlaverock, Craigielands Hill, Kirkpatrick- Duchess of Norfolk Juxta Quhytewoollen Hill, Lockerbie Dunbretton Hill, Kirtle Eammerscales Hill, Loch Maben Eskdalemuir Eepentence Tower, Cummertrees, Goodhope Eigs, Johnstone, J. J. Parish Council Hope Johnstone, of Annandale White Hill, Langholm Grange Fell, Tundergartb 69 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Elgin and Nairn (8 reported). Advie Barmnckity, J. W. Wharton Duff, of Orton Gordon Castle, Focliabers, Duke of Ricliniond and Gordon Grantown Knockando, Archiestown Nairn *Orton, J. W. Wharton Duff E-othes Fife (31 reported). Balgownie, J. J. Dalgleish Benarty Hill, Kelty Billowness, Anstrutlier Binn Hill, Burntisland Culross, Prov. J. Cunningkame Cupar Dunfermline, W. R. Maxwell Dysart Elie Flockkouse View, Kelty Forret Hill, Logie FoulforJ Hill, Cowdenbeath Grange Hill, Kinghorn, L. 1 Cadell Guardbridge (2) Inzievar, A. D. Smith Sligo, of Inzievar Kelly Law Forfarshire (4 reported). Carnoustie Town Council Kirriemuir Hunter's Hill, Glamis ^^^^^ ^f Montrose Kennoway, Langside Hill Largo Law, Local Committee, per Geo. A. Bell Lomond Hill Londive Hill, Sir John Gilmour of Montrave Ormiston Hill, Newburgh, Local Committee, per Provost Anderson Rires Hill, Kilconquhar Eossie Den, Auchtermuchty Saline Hills, Local Bonfire Committee Scurr Hill, Gauldry Springfield, Windygates St. Andrews (2) Strathmiglo Torryburn A. S. M. Pearsie Wedder- Mount Florida Glasgow District (1 reported). Bass Eock Belford Knowe, Aberlady, Earl of Wemyss and March Dirleton *Doon Hill, Dunbar, Miss Watt, of Spott, per Jas. Stenhouse, Agent Haddingtonshire (11 reported). Gullane, J. B. Stevenson *]N'orth Berwick Law, Boy Scouts Nunraw, Garvald Temple Mains, Innerwick Tower Park, Elphingstone Tranent Tyneholm Park, Pencaitland 70 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Inverness- shire Aclinacarry, Cameron of Lochiel Aigas Hill, Beauly Arisaig Badenocli Blarour Hill, Spean Bridge Brin, Mr. Stewart Bunclirew Craigbeg, Kingussie Craig-nan-gour, Farr, Mr. Mackenzie Drynachan, Invergarry, Capt. Ellice Forest Lodge, Clnanie Fort Augustus Foyers Glen Elg Glengarry Glensliiel Glen Truim Harris IncliYalgur Hill, Glenurquhart Inverness Kinchyle, Dores Knoydart Lochaber IN'orth Uist— Balebone Hill Kincardineshire (1 reported) Laurencekirk, A Pearson Kirkcudbright (19 reported). (50 reported). Balesban Balranald Baybead Boreray Island Carinisb Clacban Trumsgary Claddacb Kirkibost Glari Grimsay Hersker Island Kallen Locb Efort Loch Maddy Scolpaig Hill Sollar Tigbarg Yallarg Onicb Prince Cbarlie's william Poy Bridge Skye— Bracadale Glendale Eyri, Snizort "'Jig, Tomacbarricb Tomicli Eock, Fort- Barlay Hill, Gelston Bryden's Knowe, Carspbairn Castle Douglas Criffel Crofts' Moat, Crossmicbael Fell, Balmaclellan (1,350ft.) Gatebouse Irongray Kelton Hill, Rbonebouse Kiln Hill, Xew Galloway, Local Committee J. Kirkpatrick-Durbam, McQueen, of Crofts Meiklewood Hill, TarfE Muckle Hill, Colvend Muncbes Penny Hill, Colvend Screel, Hobinson Douglas Soutbwick Tbe Fell, W. S. Dickson IJrr 71 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Kinross-shire (2 reported). *Hood's Hill, Fossoway Loch Leven Lanarkshire Airdrie, Commonliead, W. B. Hossack, Bonfire Committee Airdrie, Gartlee Carluke *Carmicliael Hill, Thankerton, L. A. Morrison, Factor Castleliill, Symington Common Hill, Biggar, Mrs. Dennistoun Mitckell, of Car- wood (14 reported). Coulter Shaw Croft Hill, Carmunnock, Car- munnock Bonfire Committee East Kilbride, Local Committee Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton Newmains Pettinain, L. A. Morrison Q.uothquan Law, Libberton, Sir IS^. Dunlop, per Chas. Lyon Wishaw Linlithgowshire (H reported). Armadale Town Council *Bonnytoun Hill (56ft. high). Col. H. M. Cadell, of Grange Broomyknowes, Boy Scouts *Broxburn Shale Bing (60ft. high), Broxburn Oil Co. and Boy Scouts Cockleroi, J. G. B. Henderson Fauldhouse Dechmont Law *Johnstone Hill, Bathgate, Local Committee, per J. Freeland, Slackend Hill, Torphichen, Campbell King Uphall West Lothian Golfcourse, Duke of Hamilton Midlothian (15 reported). Cairns Castle, Midcalder Kirkhill Craiglockhart, Dr. G. M. Robertson Dalmahoy, Jas. Mc.Kelvie Leith Links, Leith Town Council Musselburffh Local Newbattle Pentlands : — Blackhill East Cairn Hamilton Orkney : — Burray Egilshay Fara Hill, W. H. Paties Hill, Carlops, Committee Scaldlaw, Boy Scouts Torphin Hill, Col. Trotter Uttersheil, Castle Hill Pumpherston, Pumpherston Oil Company Eaw Farm, East Calder, Boy Scouts Orkney and Shetland (26 reported.) Firth Flotta Graemsay Orphir 72 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Orkney and Shetland — Continued. Pentland Skerries E/Ousay Sandwick Sandy Hill, Shapinsay Sonth Ronaldshay Yestial Hill, Evie Walls (2) Ward Hill, Hoy (1,564ft), highest point in Orkneys, and IG miles north, of Dunnet Head on the main- land. Bonfires were lit on most of the Orkney Islands, and 20 were visible from the top of Rousay Shetland : — Club of Mulla Eshaness Hillswick Ness Mossbank, Delting Olnafirth Ness Queedieberg, Lunnasting Scraeiield, Quarff Standing Stones, Lunna Yord Hill, Fetlar Wart of Clate, Whalsay, Local Committee, per Rev. A. C. Henderson Peebleshire (7 reported.) Innerleithen Rachan Hill, Broughton, H. B. Marshall, of Rachan Traquair, Lord Glenconner Walkerburn Caerlee Hill^ Castlecraig Gallalaw, Skirling, Sir T. D. Gibson Carmichael Lee Pen, Innerleithen, Capt. Miller Cunningham and M. Thorburn Perthshire Aberfoyle, Parish Council Alyth Hill Ardoch, Carrour Atholl, E. F. Robertson, of Auchleeks Ayton Hill, R. W. Setoa Watson Balmunno Hill, R. W. Seton Watson Ben Dhu, Comrie Local Com- mittee Black Mailer, Foswell Callum Hill, Crieff, Local Committee Castleton Hill Cluny Hill, Pitlochry Cnoc Dhuj Callander, Town Council Coupar Angus, R. Lumsden Craigie Hill, H. S. Pullar Craigrossie, Auchterarder '30 reported). Dunkeld Glenalmond, Rev. A. R. F. Hyslop Gleneagles Glen Lyon Kilgraston Hill, H. S. Pullar Laig Hill, Dunblane Moncrieffe Hill, Sidlaws, Dun- barney Parish Council Monzievaird Munday Hill, Ochils, Dunbarney Parish Council Muthill *Ochtertyre, Crieff, A. Keith Murray of Ochtertyre Public Park, Auchterarder Rock of Dull, Aberfeldy Rumbling Bridge, W. F. McLaren Upper Cloan, Auchterarder 73 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Renfrewshire (6 reported). Auclieiibotliie, Houston, H. B. Greenock, Whinhill, Local Collins Committee G-ourock, Cloch Houstonhead, Bridge of Weir Greenock, Lyle E-oad, Loca] Pollocksliaws Committee, per Ryrie Orr Ross and Cromarty (23 reported). Alness Knockairdness, Lewis ,, Knockducherie Loch Carron Applecross Lock Torridon Balmacara Mitchell Hill, Dingwall Butt of Lewis (2) *Mounteagle Hill, Fearn, Major Carloway, Uig C.L.D. Monro and Boy Scouts Cnoc a' Tein Aigkear, Aultbea Novar Cromarty Skawbost Dingwall, Davidson of Tullock StratkpefEer Foulis ■ Tain Kinlockewe Tolsta Ckulisk, Uig Kinrive, E. de C. Findlay Roxburghshire (20 reported). Bonckester Law Morebattle Hill Broxlaw Penielkeuo^k, Crailing Cliftonhill, Ednam Euber8la^y, (1,400ft), A. Palmer Douglas Hadden Eig gt. Boswell's Hownam Law Stobs Jedburgk, Dunion Smailkolm Kelso, J. Dove Sunlaws Melrose Sweetkope Crags, Stitckel Minto Crags Wolflee Minto Hill Fetkolm Selkirk (2 reported). Meigle Hill, Galaskiels Selkirk Stirlingshire (22 reported). Blairdrummond Crickton's Cairn Campsie Fells Denny, Committee of Town Council, Castle Cary ^^^^ ^^^^ Clackter's Stane, Commander ^ '^ Miller-Stirling, E.N. Doune 74 TNK CORONATION BONFIRKSi. Stirlingshire Dunblane Dunglass, Strathblane, E. Craig Dunipace, J. A. Harvie-Brown *ralkirk, Princes' Park (59ft high), Local Committee Kilsyth Kippen Lammerknowes, Banton, Local Committee, Col. H. M. Cadell, and E/Cv. J. Livingston -Continued. Lennoxtown Milngavie, Public Park ,, Craigallion Muiravonside Stirling, Gowan Hill, Stirling Town Council Sughtree's Bank Yellore, W. Brown Wallacestone, Boy Scouts Sutherland (5 reported). Craigton Peay Eriboll, Mrs. Clarke Strathalladale Lairg Wigtownshire (5 reported). Balker Hill, Stranraer Barrhill, Newton Stewart, J^ew- ton Stewart Coronation Com- mittee, per D. W. Nicholson Culbratton Hill, Newton-Stewart, Coronation Committee Larg Hill, Kirroughtree Estate, Newton Stewart Coronation Committee Wigtown 75 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Scottish Coronation Bonfires, 1911. No. of No. of Counties. Fires. Counties. Fires. Aberdeen 24 Kinross ... 2 Argyll 62 Lanark ... 14 Ayr 29 Linlitho-ow ■ • • • ■ 11 Banff 6 Midlothian ... 15 Berwick 23 Orkney and Shetland 26 Bute 10 Peebles ... 7 Caithness 6 Perth ... 30 Clackmannan 3 Renfrew ... 6 Dumbarton ... 13 Ross and Cromarty 23 Dumfries 27 Roxburgh ... 20 Elgin and Nairn ... 8 Selkirk ... 2 Fife 31 Stirling 22 Forfar 4 Sutherland 5 Glasgow District ... 1 Wigtown . . . 5 Haddington 11 Inverness 50 Kincardine ... 1 Total 516 Kirkcudbright 19 H. M. CADELL. 76 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. IRELAND. An asterisk denotes that there is a photograph of this Bonfire. Agnews Hill Antrim Bally Carry Ballycastle (2), notified by F. Hugh Ballymena, Church Tower (flare) Ballymena, Glemish Mountain, notified by William Young Ballygalley Head Blandmagee, Court Knowe Bushmills Carrickfergus, Scotch Quarter Pier, notified by D. Law Carntall Castle Dobbs, notified by J. Hamilton Bennett Doagh, Browndodd Hill, notified by J. Clark Doagh, Holestone Hill, notified by J. Clark Island Magee Kells, Allisons Hill, notified by L. Arthur Antrim (30 reported), Knockagh Larne, notified by T. Mayne, Hon, Secretary Hiversite Sallagh Mountain Stradnatranna, on Mr. D. Dun- lop's lands, notified by G. C. S. Dunlop (6 fires seen) Stranocrum, Livery Hills, noti- fied by W. Ford Hutchinson Stranseum Templepatrick, Donegore Hill, D. Owens Greene, Hon. Secretary, notified by J. Clark Templepatrick, Rickamore Hill, notified by J. Clark Templepatrick, Wiley's Hill, notified by J. Clark Whiteabbey Whitehead, Blow Hole, notified by J. Hamilton Bennett W^hitemountain Loughbrickland Armagh (2 reported). Moy Carlo W (1 reported). Bagenalatown, organised and notified by D. E. Pack-Beresford Cavan (29 reported). Arley Mt. JSTugent Arvagh (2) Ballyconnell (3) Ballyjaeresduff (4) Notified by E. M. Archdale Betturbet (4) Cavan (7) Cootehill (6) Killeshandra (2) Notified by E. M. Archdale \S:]rJi. 77 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Cork (6 reported). Cork, Bellevue Park, notified by J. B. Fowler Courtmacslierry, J. W. Forde Crosshaven Hotel Knock-Do wn (400ft. above sea level), mainly built by Chief Officer and men of Castle Townsbend Coastguard Station Donegal (9 reported). (on Col. Somerville's Estate), notified by E. E. Somerville (6 fires seen) Lon^ueville, residence of R. E. Longfield Mallow, Summer Hill, on Mr. Williamson's grounds, notified by J. F. Williamson Castle Carey, notified by Col. J. A. L. Montgomery Creggan, Glen Scallop, Mr. James Allen's fire (900ft. above sea level) GlenscoUib Greencastle, notified by Col. J. Lettergull Hill Moville, notified by Col. J. A. L. Montgomery Redcastle, notified by Col. J. A. L. Montgomery Saint Johnstone, James Brown Shrove, notified by Col. J. A. L. Montgomery A. L. Montgomery Dublin (1 reported). Howth, Hill of Howth, notified by J. C. Gaisford, Lawrence Down (10 reported). Ardgjass, Compass Hill, notified by J. Fleming Ardglass, Saintneld Crawfordsburn, Col. R. G. Shannon Crawford's fire Crossgan, Col. E. G. Shannon Crawford's fire Deer Park, l^Tarrow Water, notified by Captain F. Hall Drunahare Hill, Loughbrickland Peter's Hill, Newcastle, notified by W. O'Neill Kodemon Rostrevor, notified by Captain F. Hall Warrenpoint, Esplanade, noti- fied by Captain F. Hall Ackwood Ballinmallard, notified by E. M. Archdale Brookeborough, notified by E. M. Archdale Bunlougher Castle Archdale, notified by E. M. Archdale Castletown, notified by E. M. Archdale Fermanagh ' 22 reported). Church Hill Clonelly, notified by E. Archdale Crom Castle, notified by E. Archdale Derrygore, notified by E. Archdale Enniskillen, notified by E. Archdale M M. M, M. 78 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Fermanagh — Continued . Florence Court, notified by E. Lurganbrae M. Arebdale Irvinestown, notified by E. M. Archdale Kesh Xilladeas, notified by E. M. Arebdale Levally, notified by E. M Archdale Lurgenbead Macken, notified by E. M. Arebdale Tempo, notified by E. M. Arebdale Toppit Troy Parisb, notified by E. M. Arebdale Galway (1 reported). Moyborougb Kildare (2 reported.). Edinderry Eatbnagar King's County (3 reported). Birr Poitarlington Edinderry Kilkenny (3 reported). Castle Morres, Mr. \¥. de Mont- Knockdrina, Col. Hanfud's morency's estate (500ft. above estate, notified by W. de Mont- sea level), fired by Captain de morency Montmorency, E/.N., notified irv.^^i +^ i j--xi j t_ ^rr j hv W ^P Mnnt.r>-,nrf>;r^ Xnocktopaer, notified by W. de Montmorency by W. de Montmorency Leitrim (1 rzported). Manorbamilton, M. Corscaddon Longford (1 reported). Edgewortbstown. Londonderry (12 reported) Ardagb, notified by J. L. Lapsley Ards Hill Binnion, notified by J. L. Lapsley Dooisb, notified by J. L. Lapsley Olentown, notified by J. L. Lapsley Lettergull, notified by J. L. Lapsley Lismougbery, notified by J. L. Lapsley May more, notified by J. L. Lapsley Money more Slieve Gallion, organised by tbe Unionist Club St. Jobnstown, notified by J. L. Lapsley Tubber, notified by J. L. Lapsley 79 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Louth (1 reported). Drogheda, Ardagh Hill, fired and notified by B. R. Balfour Meath (1 reported.) Meath (Mr. Oldbridge's bonfire) Roscommon (1 reported). Rockingham, Boyle, Mr. King-Harman's estate, notified by T. J. Stafford SligO (1 reported). Collooney, Union Rock Tyrone (1 reported). Clognew Tipperary ( i reported). Roscrea "WickloW (3 reported). Ardmore Point (Mr. H. Leslie- Camaderry Mountain, notified Ellis's fire), notified by H. by Archdeacon G. R. Wynne Leslie-Ellis Glendalough The following have also been notified: — Alia, Rev. Beckett Ballyhoe, Mulroy, Earl of Leitrim Baronscourt, Bessy Bell, Duke of Abercorn Benbraddagh, Dungiven, R. J. C. Ogilby Braes of Galloway, Feeny, Thos. Thompson Brookhill, J. Walker Buncrana, A. B. MuUin Carricklee, Carricklee Hill, E. C. Hadman Carrigans, W. J. Hannah Coroddy, F. M. Cully Croghan, Strabane, Thos. Elliot Cross, John Pinkerton CuldafP, J. Flemming Donemana, Downhill, Sir H. Bruce Ervey Mountain, Wm. Canning Evish Hill, Dr. Baird Fahan, Captain Norman Gleiialgan, Limavady, M. M. Mc.Causlans Gortnessy, Mr. Guthrie Gortree Hill, Joseph Mc.Crea Grianan Lettermuck, Ballyarton, A. Irwin Lisdillon, Ardmore, Major Smythe Millbrook, Straidarran, Alex. Miller Multybracken, Cumber, Major Browne-Leake Portsalon, Major Baiton Portrush, Ramore Hill, Capt. Watt Sion Mills, Bierney Mountain, Captain Richards Tirbracken, S. C. Mc.Cutcheon Warbleshinney, Mr. Smyth 80 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Irish Coronation Bonfires, 1911. No. of Counties. Flreo. Antrim ... ... ... ... ... ... 30 Armagh ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 OStFlOW^ ... ... •*• ... ... ... J- Cavan ... ... ... ... ... ... 29 Cork ... ... ... ... ... 6 Donegal ... ... ... ... ... ... 9 Dublin ... ... ... ... .^. ... 1 Down ... ... ... .. ... ... 10 Fermanagh ... ... ... -. .. ... 22 Galway ... ... ... ... ..• ■- 1 Kildare ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 King's County ... ... ... ... ... 3 Kilkenny ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 Leitrim ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Longford ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Londonderry ... ... ... ... ... 12 Louth .. ... ... ... ... ... 1 Meath ... ... ... ... ... ••• 1 Roscommon ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Sligo Tyrone Tipperary Wicklow ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 129 Additional ... ... ... ... ... 31 Total 160 81 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. p—^ WALES. An asterisk denotes that there is a 2^ho^ograph of this Bonfire. Anglesey (4 reported), Beaumaris, Chairman of Bonfire Caergybi Mynydd, A. Asquith., Committee, Gwynfa, Beau- Town Hall, Holyhead maris, Anglesey pj^g ^^^^^ notified by Lady Carreglwyd, notified by Lady Eeade Reade Breconshire (1 reported). Twyn Gwyn (1300ft.), A. Lloyd Davies, 43 Tot Hill, St. Ebbw Vale Carmarthen (3 reported). Bettws, E. Hewlett, Wernoleu, Pencoed foel (800ft.), C E. Ammaford, R.S.O. Yowles, County School, Penlan Hill, F. E. Morris, Bryn Llandyssul Eoma, Carmarthen Carnarvon (4 reported). Great Ormes Head, W. Shadbolt, Llanfairfechan, Gorddino^, Col. Gas Works, Llandudno Piatt's bonfire, notified by J. Bethesda, W. G. Pritchard, 6 ^^' ^^^^"^ Ogwen Terrace, Bethesda Snowdon, notified by T. G. Creak Cardigan (2 reported). Aberayron, Dr. Edw. Williams, Plinlimmon,H.Bousall,Pendebyn, Aberayron Llanbadarn Denbigh (6 reported). Abergele, Kinmel Park (36ft. Foel (750ft. above sea level), high), Mrs. Hughes's bonfire Mrs. H. W. Carlton, Foel, (9 fires seen) Llansannan, Abergele Bryn Euryn (424ft.), J. Parry- Moelfre Ucha (1300ft.), J. E. Hughes, Council Ofiices, Oldfield, Ffarm, Abergele Colwyn Bay On the hills above Chirk Castle, Cerrig Serth, W. R. Williams, W. Parker, Chirk Castle Schoolmaster, Llangwm, Cor- Offices, Chirk wen Flintshire (2 reported). Ben Arth (just above Tremeir- Foel Gaer (jmst under 1000ft.;, chion), Eev. E. Monteith, St. J. C. Brown, Ehosesmor Beuno's College, St. Asaph School, near Holywell 83 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Glamorganshire (7 reported). Aberdare, A. P. Jones, Bute Estate Ofiicej Aberdare Barry, T. B. TordoS, Council Offices, Barry Cefn on, built by the Earl of Ply- mouth (35ft. high, 20ft. in diameter at the base), L. L. Powell, Bradford Cottage, Caerphilly, Glam. Garth Mountain, Pentyrch (by the Marquis of Bute), A. P. Jones, Bute Estate Oihce, Aberdare Merionethshire (4 reported). Cader Idris (2929ft.), also Idris, 120 Pratt Street, Cam- Mynydd Moel and Craig-y-cau den Town, London being the three highest peaks Fegla Fawr Arthog, notified by of the Cader range, T. H. W. Owen Evans Monmouth (13 reported). Llanmadoc Hill ((iOOft.) (bonfire 15ft. high), very successful bonfire, L. Gordon Lenox, Llanmadoc, lionaldston, South Wales *Penarth Head (230ft., base of bonfire 35ft. in diameter), Stanley Smith, 71 Plassey Street, Penarth Treherbert, A. P. Jones, Bute Estate Office, Aberdare Chepstow Christchurch Craig-y-dorth Domen Eawr, Ebbw Vale Graig Mountain (l,G00ft.), E. W. G. Mardon's fire Llangibby, Penpark Hill Llanwern, notified by D. A. Thomas (more than a dozen fires seen) Montgomeryshire (10 reported). Bryncrugog, N. Bennett Owen, Moel-y-golfa (1,324ft.), Gwernafon, Llanidloes Machen Mountain (1,050ft.) (35ft. high), Viscount Tredegar's fire Mynydd Maen Ehymney, W. Lloyd Marks, Urban District Council, Rhymney Shildon Sugar Loaf (2000ft.), J. 0. Marsh, Mayor, Town Hall, Abergavenny Tredegar *Cae Bigol, Beacon Eing, notified by P. Hurlbutt, Leighton, Estate Office, Welshpool *Forder, Nant Cribban Park Garthgell Hill, J. Marshal] Dugdale, Llwyn, Llanfyllin, S.O. *Kerry Pole, Mrs. Naylor's fire, B.' H. E. Beadon^ Brynlly- warch Estate Office, Kerry, Montgiomery Llangurig, J. P. Pryse, J. P. R. Preece, Middletown, Welsh- pool Montgomeryshire Peak of Plynlimon, E. Hamer, (Mayor), Summerfield Park, Llanidloes Montgomery, Town Hill (50ft. high), R. Turnbull, Lymore, Montgomery Newtown, Brimmon Hill, Bennett Rowland's fire (20 fires seen) 83 THE CORONATION BONFIRES, Pembrokeshire (9 reported). Barrack's Hill, G. Mason, Bush Street, Pembroke Dock; R. S. Thomas, Woodbine Terrace, Pembroke Dinas Head (850ft.), Charles L. Bakers fire Garn Llaiillawer (l,lCOt't.), Charles E. Baker's fire Garn Lleithe (635ft.), Charles E. Baker's fire Murray Crescent, J. P. Morgan and T. C. Lewis, Urban District Council, Milford Haven Prescelly (1,735ft.), Charles E. Baker's fire Ramsay Island (450ft.), Charles E. Baker's fire Tenby, top of hill overlooking town, B. Morley, Borough Surveyor's Office, Tenby Treffgarne Mountain, R. Lloyd, Treffgarne Hall, Treffgarne Radnorshire (3 reported). notified by Mrs. Newbridge- on- Wye, Llewellyn, Coleshill, Eveljm (29 fires seen) Craigie (1800ft), Lewis Evans, The Home Earm, Penybont Station, Radnorshire Llysdinam, IS^ewbridge-on- Wye, 84 THE CORONATION BONFIRES. Welsh Coronation Bonfires, 1911. Cnuniiei' No. of Firei. Anglesey .. ... ... 4 Breconshire ... 1 Carmarthen ... 3 Carnarvon 4 Cardigan Denbigh 6 Flintshire 2 Glamorganshire 7 Merionethshire 4 Monmouthshire 13 Montgomeryshire 10 Pembrokeshiie S Radnorshire ... 3 Total 68 85 INDEX TO PHOTOGRAPHS. An Asterisk (*) in the County Lists denotes that there is an illustration. WLitebaven ... ... Finn tispiece PAGE Acton Burneil ... ... 1 Almondsbury ... 23 Apethorpe ... 1 Ashingdon ... 1 Aspull 1 Bathgate 2 Bexley Haatli ... ... 20 Bonnytoun Hill ... 2 Bowscar ... 2 Bramham Moor... ... 2 Brampton ... 3 Beverley Park, New Maiden ... 13 Bremhill, Wilts... ... 19 Bristol, Knowle ... 3 Bromsgrove ... 20 Broxburn ... 3 Buckland, Braunton ... 3 Cae Bigol, Beacon Ring ... ... 4 Caldbeck ... 4 Carmichael Hill 4 Clayton-le-Moors ... 4 Clifton ... 5 Corby Castle ... 24 Crieff... ... 5 Crof ton ... 5 Croxdale Colliery, Durham ... 5 Cud worth ... 6 Derril, lona ... 20 Dunbar, Doon Hill, Spott ... 6 Durham, Hett ,.. .,. 6 PAGE Falkirk ... ... ... 6 Fearn, Ross-shire ... ... 7 Forder, Nant Cribball Park ... 20 Fourstones, Warden Hill ... ... 7 Gargrave ... ... ... 7 Grange-over-Sands, Hampsfell Beacon 7 Grassington ... ... ... 21 Greetland, Yorks ... ... 8 Hall ban kgate ... ... 8 Haverbrack Bank 8 Heads Nook, Faugh Hill ... ... 21 Heath Common ... 8 Hertford Heath ... 9 Heversham Head ... 9 Heysham 9 Hoddam Estate ... ... 9 Hoodshill, Fossaway ... 21 Ingleby, Greenhow Kerry, Pole Hill Kidderminster, Franche Hall Lamberhurst, Bayhara Abbey Lockerbie House Loughrigg Loughrigg Longtown, Herefordshire ... 10 10 10 T6 10 11 11 U INDEX TO PHOTOGRAPHS— con^mwed PAGE PAGE Malvern Beacon ... 11 Sandal, Castle Hill ... ... 15 Marlborough, Wilts ... 12 Saltburn, Hob Hill 15 Mickleliurst ... 12 Sharpenhurst Hill ... 22 Middlestown and Overton . . . ... 12 Silloth, Eagle Hill ... 16 Mow Cop ... 12 Skiddaw ... 16 Solberge ... 16 Newcastle-on-Tyne ... 13 Southward Lee, Kent ... 23 Newchurch, Seat Naze ... 22 Stainbro' 16 Newport Pagnell ... 23 Stoke Dry, Uppingham ... 17 North Berwick Law ... 13 Stoke-on-Trent ... ... 22 Sutton, Surrey ... ... 17 OckerHill ... 13 Old Buckenham .. 19 Taunton, "Georges" ... ... 17 Oldbury, Bury Hill Park ... ... 14 Thurlstone ... ... ... 17 Oldbury Castle, Colne, Wilts ... 19 Or ton, Morayshire ... 21 Warwick, near Carlisle, Warwick Bank 18 Whitwick Beacon, High Tor Farm ... 18 Penarth Head ... ... 14 Whit wick Beacon, High Tor Farm ... 18 Plashetts ... 14 Workington ... ... ... 18 Pudsey, Green top ... 14 Pulborough, Beedings ... 15 Yeadon ... .. ... 19 Yealand Conyers, Summer House Hill 22 Rovston. One Hill ... 15 Three unnamed ... 24 Acton Burnell Ashing^don Apethorpe (1) Aspull Bathgate Bowscap Bonnytoun Hill Bramham Moor (2) Brampton Broxburn Bristol, Knowle (3) Buckland, Braunton Cae Bigol, Beacon Ring Carmichael Hill Caldbeck Clayton-le-Moops (4) Clifton Crofton Crieif (5) Croxdale Colliery, Durham Cudwopth Durham, Hett Dunbar, Doon Hill, Spott Falkirk (6) ^^E^ '"' ^^ ^B- H^^^p iiii^^ .0^mim0mi •J!».^ Fearn, Ross-shire Gargrave Fourstones, Warden Hill Grange-over-Sands, Hampsfell Beacon (7) SPBB^vMwlfeiy^' '^^fmm Greetland, Yorks Haverbrack Bank Hallbankgate Heath Common (8) Hertford Heath Heysham Heversham Head (9) Hoddam Estate Ingleby, Greenhow Kidderminster, Franche Hall Lm *" -*^ ' Kerry, Pole Hill Lockerbie House (10) 4 . yli'V<*W, ''it'"-- -'-» t yj&t Loughrigg Longtown, Herefordshire Loughrigg Malvern Beacon (11) Marlborough, Wilts Middlestown and Overton Micklehupst Mow Cop (12) Newcastle-on-Tyne North Berwick Law Beverley Park, New Maiden Ocker Hill (13) Oldbupy, Bury Hill Park Plashetts Penarth Head (14) Pudsey, Greentop Pulborough, Beedings Sandal, Castle Hill ■■: /*.■■■•*'- y * * £«^ ^ * " 'yyr.X'/^/y ';^'/,»//'/'-^ Royston, One Hill Saltburn, Hob Hill (15) Silloth, Eagle Hill Solberge Skiddaw Stainbro' (16) stoke Dpy, Uppingham Taunton, "Georges" \ m i^^.^;^^ 1 M r ^^ Ps^ ^p<-^^ ■3K>^s«3rti y' ■ ■■■■ ■ ^ J ■■ «'■ '■ ■, m^ ^s% W Sutton, Surrey (17) Thurlstone Warwick, near Carlisle, Warwick Bank Whitwick Beacon, High Tor Farm Workington Whitwick Beacon, High Tor Farm (18) Oldbury Castle, Colne, Wilts Yeadon ' Old Buckenham Bremhill, Wilts (19) t^i t'^' " ^illiillMHMHl HHHi^^Hi E ^"^m HP'^^^' T<^J» '»' i ^^^ t (20) d c/i o 73 O O X X o o (21) c a a 0) CO o X a s s C/5 w >J c o o (22) Newport Pagnell Southward Lee, Kent Lamberhurst, Bayham Abbey Almondsbury (23) Corby Castle (24) ■i^x'- "