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Over the decades, it has largely been centred on parade disputes or bonfires, but last summer there was racially-motivated violence in Belfast.

As armed officers moved into Knowles's garden in Milford Avenue, drone footage captured the moment he emerged from an outbuilding with his hands up before being handcuffed in front of his bonfire.

Those that couldn’t be sold abroad or hidden within officials’ palatial homes were consigned to the bonfires.

Carved from a single piece of wood by a chainsaw-wielding local artisan called Ales "Maxi" Zupevc, it lasted a year before an unidentified perpetrator decided to turn it into a Fourth of July bonfire.

There is a huge bonfire on the outskirts of the city planned for Wednesday evening.