Taken from another list.... Edna - Ottawa >>>> Each year, to raise money for charity, Torrington Cavaliers (Devon) create a tableau to burn on 5th November: it started as a simple but enormous bonfire, and has developed into an `event ` of county-wide interest. " Having spent more than a year building a 100ft long replica of Nelson`s flagship , a group of fundraisers are going to achieve what the French fleet and Old Father Time failed to do, by destroying HMS Victory. The Torrington Cavaliers , a volunteer group with a long history of spectacular bonfires, will set light to their intricate reproduction of the three deck battleship on a field in North Devon next month marking the 200th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar. The replica comes complete with anchors , cabins, lifeboats, and a broadside of 24 guns will be fired before the ship is burned on 27th Aug in front of thousands of spectators . ...the Cavaliers who celebrate their 35th anniversary this year , constructed a huge replica of the Houses of Parliament and invited a descendant of Guy Fawkes to put the torch to it .......in 2000, they built a full size replica of part of the London of 1666 and recreated the Great Fire of London by burning it down in front of 20,000 spectators . " As everyone will remember the battle of Torrington was one of the last battle, if not the last battle of the Civil war in the south west , hence the Torrington Cavaliers . The spectacular will take place on the common at Torrington , and I can scan in a picture of the replica to anyone interested . Or they can see it at www.telegraph.co.uk/pictures