Mischief Night

[Threevok]

To be honest - I had never heard it - down here in the valleys.

Perhaps it was moot here - as that's the sort of thing we got up to every night

 

[MontyVeda]

Swedes we always had.
Turnips not so much and , where available; those tended to be of the 'snowball' variety hence too small to hold a candle.

It looks like Mischief Night on the night before bonfire night is a northern English thing... as is calling a swede a turnip.

But then again, a friend who's the same age as me who grew up near Kendal always did Mischief Night on the 30th Oct... but folk are weird up in Westmorland.

 

[Julia9054]

Another vote for the 4th November in Lancashire. I remember standing there c**pping myself as two big boys took someone's gates off one year. I was a good kid and Mischief Night caused me no end of stress!

 

[MontyVeda]

Another vote for the 4th November in Lancashire. I remember standing there c**pping myself as two big boys took someone's gates off one year. I was a good kid and Mischief Night caused me no end of stress!

My next door neighbours blamed me for everything that happened to them on Mischief Night... i wasn't allowed out on Mischief Night from the age of twelve, but according to them, it was still me, egging their house, uprooting plants, knocking on their door and running away. They're dead now.... probably my fault too.

 

[Venod]

[QUOTE 5021510, member: 259"]We didn't do the house to house trick or treat stuff, but we used to do a penny for the guy. You would ideally post yourself outside a shop that sold fireworks or the miners' welfare (prime spot) with your guy in a pushchair.[/QUOTE]

Yes we did penny for the guy on the build up to bonfire night, we dressed one of the lads little brothers as a guy and put him in a wheelbarrow, a youth ran up (and thinking it was a stuffed guy) thumped him in the stomach, I don't know who was the most shocked, the guy or the youth.

I never associated penny for the guy with Halloween though, it was Guy Fawkes.

 

[NorthernDave]

It's a Northern tradition and it's on the 4th November.

Happy memories of knock-a-door-run, egging windows, smearing treacle on gate handles, and one memorable year using a reel of electrical cable to fasten the door handles on a row of terrace houses together before ringing all the doorbells*

* All done by other lads, not me, no I was just walking past minding my own business...

 

[Supersuperleeds]

We used to do it in Beverley, I think it was night before bonfire night, but my memory isn't what it used to be

 

[Supersuperleeds]

We used to do it in Beverley, I think it was night before bonfire night, but my memory isn't what it used to be

 

[Supersuperleeds]

We used to do it in Beverley, I think it was night before bonfire night, but my memory isn't what it used to be

 

[Onthedrops]

4th November like Nonethewiser.
Knock a door run, roaring bulls (making a fire below cast iron drain pipes)
Proper mischief, not vandalism.

Penny for the guy was our version of legalised begging, not this Trick or Treat garbage.

Chumping, ie collecting firewood for the bonfire then having to guard it from neighbouring kids

Happy days!

 

[classic33]

4th November like Nonethewiser.
Knock a door run, roaring bulls (making a fire below cast iron drain pipes)
Proper mischief, not vandalism.

Penny for the guy was our version of legalised begging, not this Trick or Treat garbage.

Chumping, ie collecting firewood for the bonfire then having to guard it from neighbouring kids

Happy days!

Splitting it up between gardens, so that it couldn't all be taken in one go.

 

[MontyVeda]

Garden creeping/hedge hopping were my favourite mischief night pastimes... i recall about twenty of us doing the grand national ...a row of about forty houses with big front gardens and mostly low walls/hedges

 

[subaqua]

Garden creeping/hedge hopping were my favourite mischief night pastimes... i recall about twenty of us doing the grand national ...a row of about forty houses with big front gardens and mostly low walls/hedges

Lyme Grove in my hometown .

the standard run was from the top to about 3/4 way down then through the back garden over the 8ft wall and into the cul-de-sac . reigning champion as the guy whos garden backed onto the cul-de-sac planted hawthorns to stop you getting to the wall

 

[MontyVeda]

I mentioned Mischief Night to a couple of a young workmates last week... one, from Liverpool was most familiar with 'Mizzy' night, but seemed somewhat offended when i presumed she would have participated. The other, from Berkshire had no idea what I was talking about... that's criminology students for you

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Mischief Night was November 4th.
Swedes are swedes and turnips are turnips. One is yellow, the other is white. One is big and the other is small.

These suveners know diddly squat.