This year we hope to put on a ‘Smugglers’ night even bigger and better which combines Rottingdeans traditional Christmas shopping evening with a torch lit procession of pirates and smugglers and a firework display on the beach.
We need local residents to join Rottingdean Smugglers using forms available in any Rottingdean pub or downloaded through this website, to march in our December procession. Membership only costs £4.00. This is a nominal sum to help cover the cost of “Smugglers Night”. This will allow you to carry a torch in this years Rottingdeans Smugglers procession and access to the members viewing area at the beach for the firework display.
We need local residents to join Rottingdean Smugglers using forms available in any Rottingdean pub or downloaded through this website, to march in our December procession. Membership only costs £4.00. This is a nominal sum to help cover the cost of “Smugglers Night”. This will allow you to carry a torch in this years Rottingdeans Smugglers procession and access to the members viewing area at the beach for the firework display.
“There will be drums”.
Rottingdean was renamed “Drummingdean” after the last Smugglers night. With multiple drum bands marauding around the village adding to a cacophony of sound, lit by blazing torches and flares, the costumed drummers made a surreal spectacle before and after the processions. Many of these bands attend local Sussex Bonfire Nights but came together en mass in Rottingdean and at times seemed to take over the village with their rhythms.
Welcome to Rottingdean Smugglers Night, which this year will be on Saturday December 1st.
Last years Smugglers night proved to be a great success. A small group of self confessed pyromaniac’s worked hard to organize an evening that exceeded many expectations.
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