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Sept 2022
No Bonfire Night event in Tockwith this year
The organisers of the annual Bonfire Night celebrations in Tockwith have said the event will not take place this year.
Tockwith and District Agricultural Society has previously used the bonfire and fireworks to raise funds for the village show in the summer.
However, the committee has decided not to run it this year because of the amount of work involved and the difficulties of using the showfield site.
Committee chair Georgina Watson said:
The event was held last year, after a gap in 2020 because of the covid pandemic. In 2019, it had to be called off at the last minute when heavy rain left the showfield waterlogged.
The waterlogged field in 2019. Photo: Tockwith and District Agricultural Society
The announcement this week follows a decision by Harrogate's Round Table to alter the format of its event on the Stray.
Rather than a bonfire, the volunteers said they would offer family entertainments including fairground rides, as well as the popular firework display.
A survey of the public after last year's event found people were ambivalent about the bonfire, which the Round Table said was expensive and challenging to organise.
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