It said there would still be a firework display and fun fair on Guy Fawkes Night but there would be no bonfire. Historian Carl Chinn said the origins of the council-run bonfire event was to help increase public safety.
The University of Birmingham professor of community history and BBC WM presenter said: "In the 1950s and 1960s the council made a big push to put on organised bonfires to reduce private bonfires as part of a safety campaign. Pype Hayes is the result of that.
"Bonfire Night is exactly what it says on the box, you can't have bonfire night without a bonfire," he added. About 30,000 people attend the annual bonfire and fireworks display in the park, which is free.
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The bonfire in the picture looks suspiciously like one from Northern Ireland. They're burn on the 12th of July, are several stories tall and works of (sectarian) art, generally with an irish flag on top.
I'm not sure, according to Google images this is Pype Hayes Park.
arbroath: I'm sure you're right. Tin eye rewarded me with: http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2009/11/06/thousands-flock-to-pype-hayes-fireworks-spectacular-pictures-and-video-97319-25106403/ however the reason I was thinking it was in NI was due to images like : http://www.flickr.com/photos/27923477@N06/2602049516/in/set-72157605759407053/ or http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/the-twelfth-fired-up-for-big-night-13908284.html and as a point of correction I mean 11th night, not 12th. The 12th is when all good people.. get the hell out of NI.
Tin eye frightens me, Ratz!
How does it work?
And yes, I've seen these NI fires before. Didn't some places used to use old tyres?
Arbroath: Though it's not immediately obvious from the site (http://www.tineye.com/) or their FAQ.. if I were trying to implement such a thing I'd start by trying to do it like a web crawler (such as the normal way google/yahoo/bing(ha!)/etc. I'd index websites only I'd have my crawler only pick up images.. Then I'd do edge detection (which is a surprisingly easy operation, you just take the image and multiply it by a 3x3 matrix).. and then take something like the checksum of that.. I'd add the average of Red Green Blue (maybe times some smoothing algorithm) and then some kind of operation that takes the highest contrast points and works out how far away (and at what angles) they are from eachother. That way you could get a fairly cheap yet still unique way to get a description of an image.. The useful thing is that you could end up with a similar score/result for a small version of what started out as a big image, or cropped it a bit etc.
Since you asked ;)
Heh heh, blimey. I suppose I did ask!
The thing is, all images I post here, I whack through Photoshop and lower the resolution slightly and resize. I also regulary mess with the contrast/brightness and crop them.
Yet still Tin Eye finds them.
Every time I see a referral here from Tin Eye I worry it's the 'copyright police'. It really does frighten me.
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