Enjoy the simple pleasure of watching a team effort create a life-sized pirate ship for a community conflagration.

Skinningrove bonfire has been an important community event since 1982, when some local residents built a 30-foot-long effigy of the Houses of Parliament and burnt them to the entertainment of 500 onlookers. Since then, the annual event has become a much bigger enterprise, involving heavy machinery, gallons of paint, and the active support of local police and coastguards. Effigies burned have included a life-sized Viking ship, a castle, dragon, phoenix, cathedral, and the house of Old Mother Hubbard.

A record of the construction and burning of the annual Skinningrove Bonfire on Bonfire Night 1999. This year's theme is 'pirates' and features the bonfire under construction on the beach in the shape of a painted white pirate ship. On Bonfire Night itself, crowds gather on the beach to watch both the burning as well as a fireworks display.