WHY do Bolton townsfolk celebrate Guy Fawkes Night with bangs, no, explosions, for a period of four weeks a year?

The local wildlife must be coming towards extinction, and the domesticated animals, myself included, are fast becoming nervous wrecks. By all means let people remember this famous person from London if they wish to, but let's keep it within a reasonable time and decibel limit.

We don't even celebrate the birth of Christ or any other major event for such a long period.

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