Stonehaven Fireballs: Scotland Swings Fire on Hogmanay

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000

At the last stroke of midnight on Hogmanay, roughly forty people walk up the High Street of Stonehaven with balls of fire spinning at the end of five feet of chain, and the whole town comes out to watch them do it. This is Aberdeenshire, the harbour town about fifteen miles south of Aberdeen, and this is how the north-east of Scotland decides to greet a new year — by carrying open flame through a crowd of thousands, in the dark, in the cold, with the North Sea slapping the harbour wall a hundred yards away.

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Stonehaven Fireballs: Scotland Swings Fire on Hogmanay