Up Helly Aa 2008, Lerwick, Shetland

29 January 2008

The largest and finest fire festival in Europe, where around 1000 "Guizers" parade with this year's Guizer Jarl Roy Leask through Lerwick and on to the spectacular burning of the magnificent galley "Breckon". With images of some of the preparations, the Junior Up Helly Aa events, the daytime and the night time parades, as well as the burning and a taster of some of the guizers' acts, these pages give a flavour of this year's events.

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Up Helly Aa 2008, fireworks to accompany the burning of the Galley "Breckon" at King George V Playing Fields, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, fireworks to accompany the burning of the Galley "Breckon" at King George V Playing Fields, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, the burning of the Galley "Breckon" at King George V Playing Fields, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, the burning of the Galley "Breckon" at King George V Playing Fields, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, fireworks to accompany the burning of the Galley "Breckon" at King George V Playing Fields, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, fireworks to accompany the burning of the Galley "Breckon" at King George V Playing Fields, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, Roy Leask, the Guizer Jarl, and his squad leave the burning site, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, squad performs its act at the Sound Hall, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, squad performs its act at the Sound Hall, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, squad performs its act at the Sound Hall, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, Roy Leask, Guizer Jarl and his squad at the Sound Hall, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, Roy Leask, Guizer Jarl and his squad at the Sound Hall, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, squad performs its act at the Sound Hall, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, squad performs its act at the Sound Hall, Lerwick, Shetland
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Up Helly Aa 2008, squad performs its act at the Sound Hall, Lerwick, Shetland
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