Andrew Kershaw Aug 2007 280pc Please To Remember The Fifth Of November Macmillan Boyce Nursery Rhyme Posters Gay Way no 36 15pt5x19pt5in DSC03147
S&T Virtual April 2025 - Theme Pets.
There is a dog by the wheelbarrow, but this is here to remind us of the sort of cut that Andrew applied to a nursery print (although these piece shapes are very unusual in his jigsaw output).
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S&T November 2024 - Theme British History
Andrew Kershaw cut Aug 2007 280pc Please To Remember the Fifth of November, mahogany-backed 3-ply, large pieces, 39x48cm, artwork by Boyce Nursery Rhymes. First assembled at the BCD Meeting in Sept 2007 ( when Andrew was Membership Secretary for the BCD).
I bought the jigsaw at the 2024 BCD House Party from Andrew's sister Sue T. When I opened the box later I was surprised at how large the pieces were - I thought Andrew must have been aiming at the age range 5-9 years. The knobs are very round and the background pieces rather square & grid-like. I soon discovered that the characters were perfectly line-cut, eg no trace of the yellow buttons on adjacent pieces. It made the jigsaw a joy to do.
(Andrew's flat when cleared contained many uncut jigsaw blanks, many were of nursery rhymes from the same series as this, Gay Way Series of Nursery Rhymes from 1950s by Ella Ruth Boyce. This series of Nursery Rhyme Pictures by Dorothy Muriel Wheeler was produced by Macmillan & Co. to support the Gay Way reading scheme.)
I showed this jigsaw at the November 2024 meeting at Grovely Jigsaws, when I learnt about the basis for the Bonfire Night festival and how it had attracted different social and political meanings over its lifespan.
Please to Remember the Fifth of November, shows a boy collecting money for a bonfire party. It had me remembering ‘Penny for the Guy’ and the jingle to ‘Light up the sky with Standard Fireworks’. Of course, the commemoration dates to the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to kill James I & VI and destroy Parliament as the opening act of a Catholic coup. Within months an Act of Parliament required an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot’s failure, with enforced church attendance and new service and prayers. It developed from a ‘royal miracle’ to become a focus for anti-Catholic sentiment during the 17thC under the Stuarts. During the Interegnum after the Civil War, the emphasis was on a celebration of Protestant Parliamentary Government. James II banned fireworks in 1685. After the Glorious Revolution in 1688 it became part of an important double anniversary – following William III’s birthday, Nov 4th.
During the 18thC, after from the two failed Jacobite rebellions, trade, patriotism & Parliamentary democracy under the Georgians supplanted more vitriolic anti- Catholicism for the ruling classes. But for the lower classes it became a day of disorder and sometimes violent class-based confrontations reflecting the movements for liberty and the wider Parliamentary suffrage for men. After a period of 50 years (during which the kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland were unified, the process of Catholic emancipation and religious revival with the growth of the High Anglo-Catholic church movement), the 1605 Act and thanksgiving prayer was repealed in 1859 (replaced by 1859 Anniversary Days Observance Act).
At first November 5th was known as Gunpowder Treason Day, then in the late 18th C when children began begging for money with effigies of Guy Fawkes it became known as Guy Fawkes Day. Wikipedia says the earliest record of verse resembling today’s rhyme is in 1742. In North America, settlers called it Pope’s Day, which died out after the American Revolution. In Britain organised fireworks entertainments became popular, apart from during the first and second World Wars. Guy Fawkes celebrations in the mid 20thC were often family-based, or very local communal bonfire events, where children collected wood and money using the Guy which was to be burnt. Firework safety concerns, the rise of larger organised firework events whilst local authorities could afford them, secular and multi-cultural society trends, and above all competition from the commercial USA Halloween tradition has meant the rapid decline of Guy Fawkes Night into a declining spectacle without deep cultural meaning.
Andrew Kershaw Aug 2007 280pc Please To Remember The Fifth Of November Macmillan Boyce Nursery Rhyme Posters Gay Way no 36 15pt5x19pt5in DSC03147
S&T Virtual April 2025 - Theme Pets.
There is a dog by the wheelbarrow, but this is here to remind us of the sort of cut that Andrew applied to a nursery print (although these piece shapes are very unusual in his jigsaw output).
-
S&T November 2024 - Theme British History
Andrew Kershaw cut Aug 2007 280pc Please To Remember the Fifth of November, mahogany-backed 3-ply, large pieces, 39x48cm, artwork by Boyce Nursery Rhymes. First assembled at the BCD Meeting in Sept 2007 ( when Andrew was Membership Secretary for the BCD).
I bought the jigsaw at the 2024 BCD House Party from Andrew's sister Sue T. When I opened the box later I was surprised at how large the pieces were - I thought Andrew must have been aiming at the age range 5-9 years. The knobs are very round and the background pieces rather square & grid-like. I soon discovered that the characters were perfectly line-cut, eg no trace of the yellow buttons on adjacent pieces. It made the jigsaw a joy to do.
(Andrew's flat when cleared contained many uncut jigsaw blanks, many were of nursery rhymes from the same series as this, Gay Way Series of Nursery Rhymes from 1950s by Ella Ruth Boyce. This series of Nursery Rhyme Pictures by Dorothy Muriel Wheeler was produced by Macmillan & Co. to support the Gay Way reading scheme.)
I showed this jigsaw at the November 2024 meeting at Grovely Jigsaws, when I learnt about the basis for the Bonfire Night festival and how it had attracted different social and political meanings over its lifespan.
Please to Remember the Fifth of November, shows a boy collecting money for a bonfire party. It had me remembering ‘Penny for the Guy’ and the jingle to ‘Light up the sky with Standard Fireworks’. Of course, the commemoration dates to the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to kill James I & VI and destroy Parliament as the opening act of a Catholic coup. Within months an Act of Parliament required an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot’s failure, with enforced church attendance and new service and prayers. It developed from a ‘royal miracle’ to become a focus for anti-Catholic sentiment during the 17thC under the Stuarts. During the Interegnum after the Civil War, the emphasis was on a celebration of Protestant Parliamentary Government. James II banned fireworks in 1685. After the Glorious Revolution in 1688 it became part of an important double anniversary – following William III’s birthday, Nov 4th.
During the 18thC, after from the two failed Jacobite rebellions, trade, patriotism & Parliamentary democracy under the Georgians supplanted more vitriolic anti- Catholicism for the ruling classes. But for the lower classes it became a day of disorder and sometimes violent class-based confrontations reflecting the movements for liberty and the wider Parliamentary suffrage for men. After a period of 50 years (during which the kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland were unified, the process of Catholic emancipation and religious revival with the growth of the High Anglo-Catholic church movement), the 1605 Act and thanksgiving prayer was repealed in 1859 (replaced by 1859 Anniversary Days Observance Act).
At first November 5th was known as Gunpowder Treason Day, then in the late 18th C when children began begging for money with effigies of Guy Fawkes it became known as Guy Fawkes Day. Wikipedia says the earliest record of verse resembling today’s rhyme is in 1742. In North America, settlers called it Pope’s Day, which died out after the American Revolution. In Britain organised fireworks entertainments became popular, apart from during the first and second World Wars. Guy Fawkes celebrations in the mid 20thC were often family-based, or very local communal bonfire events, where children collected wood and money using the Guy which was to be burnt. Firework safety concerns, the rise of larger organised firework events whilst local authorities could afford them, secular and multi-cultural society trends, and above all competition from the commercial USA Halloween tradition has meant the rapid decline of Guy Fawkes Night into a declining spectacle without deep cultural meaning.