effigy

Each society spends months producing an effigy - or tableau - which are paraded through the streets and then burned at the bonfire sites.

Six different bonfire societies are holding processions through the East Sussex town and spectators will watch as huge effigies are paraded through the streets.

These modern effigies to mass production and over-consumption carry their own history, gained from both the seller in need and the tourist who purchases them.

Anti-Chessman crowds burned Brown in effigy and booed him and his family in public.

Some see Crowther as an unfairly maligned man of his time, and his effigy as an important part of the state’s history, warts and all.