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GaryBeaner
31-01-2012, 05:02 PM
Found these pics in a file I'd lost (sort of), they were taken one weekend in August to celebrate the patron saint of charcoal burners Saint Alexander.
http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j034sdAlexanderCharcoalBurner8-11.htm
Organised and run by some friends in the Sussex & Surrey Coppice Group, it was a two day burn with different shifts looking after things, but with Alan Waters as the 'Halfmaster' (boss).
Pretty successful burn, full of fun and food & came home blacker than a black thing on black street and with several bags of charcoal for my effort.

Just uploaded the rest to picasa
https://picasaweb.google.com/100606630682937708481/20110814StAlexanders011

Dan XF
31-01-2012, 05:30 PM
Wow. Another tradition I'd never even heard of. I used to buy pang river charcoal but never really thought about who made it. My ignorance scares me some times. At others I'm too ignorant to be scared about it.

Ben Casey
31-01-2012, 07:40 PM
Great pics there I would love to be at one one day :)