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Build update photo 28th November 2019
Great Torrington Cavaliers
Great Torrington Cavaliers
The bow build progress
Our technical team, two of which are shipbuilders, are installing the shaping and securing timbers for the shape of the bow! You can see the panels being fitted that will hold the external timbers.
Torridge Gates & Timber products are kindly cutting back some timber boards to a thickness of 8mm so they can be bent to take the shape.
Bow progress 1 Bow progress 2 Bow progress 3 Torridge Gates
Bonfire video by Step Back in Time TV
Giles and the team from Step Back in Time TV came to the bonfire site armed with their video cameras etc. Thank you for your help and we look forward to working with on the night of the burn!!
Watch the video below:
BBC - Replica Mayflower to be burned
BBC - Replica Mayflower built to be burned in Great Torrington
A group of volunteers have built a life-size replica of the Mayflower - but only so they can burn it down for charity.
The Great Torrington Cavaliers will have spent five years on the project when they set fire to it next year.
Next year is the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower taking the pilgrim fathers from Plymouth to the US and the bonfire is one part of planned celebrations in Devon.
Courtesy of bbc.com/news
2 Articles in a newspaper - Plymouth Massachusetts
"The Old Colony Memorial" in Plymouth Massachusetts ran 2 articles about our bonfire. They are in PDF format and can be opened via the links below:
11th May - Looking more like a ship
Looking good after a great mornings work. Taking shape now!
11th May
Mayfair 2019 - Photos
It was an early start at 7am to help set the square up for the day followed by breakfast!
We had a very special visitor this year who took a break from his final world tour! He was supported by the Cavalier dance team and what a show it was!! In the afternoon we staged an audience involvement event with a western theme. 14 teams of 3 in a carriage had to navigate a chicane, remove some very dangerous rattle snakes then throw some balls through the cacti and return to base, thanks to all those who took part. It was a great day of events.