17 Halloween pictures you'll remember if you grew up in Edinburgh
By Rosalind Erskine
Published 2nd Oct 2019, 11:40 BST
Updated 2nd Oct 2019, 12:40 BST
Picture: TSPL
Take a look back at Halloween before pumpkins and trick or treating.
Before trick or treating and pumpkins came guising, neep lanterns and dookin’ for apples. Here were look at some pictures of Halloween celebrations and traditions in Edinburgh.
Little Michael Haughian of Clermiston, Edinburgh, gets to work on his robot costume for Halloween 1951.
It was usual to 'do a turn' when out guising and sing a song or tell a joke at the houses that you called at. These children in Leith count their guising money back in 1951.
A Halloween party held at Lauriston community centre in October 1970. Dooking for apples.
A traditional game on a Scottish Halloween - catching the treacle scone at a children's Halloween party at Greenside Parish Church in Edinburgh, 1971.
Elizabeth Watson dooking for apples in November 1971 at the children's Halloween party at Greenside Parish Church in Edinburgh.
Guisers hand over money to Margaret Bayne, Convener of Lamb's House in Leith in 1967.
Tweedie Memorial Boys Club hold their Halloween party at the West Port, 1956. Boys dooking for apples, which was a common Scottish tradition at Halloween.
