Letters: Readers recall what they got up to in the run-up to 5 November as children, and the local dialect words they used for it
Re your letters on “chumping” and “progging” , growing up in Halifax in the 60s and 70s, 5 November was known as Plot Night. So as we went round the doors collecting wood, what else would we be doing other than plotting?• The best part of progging was prog raiding – sneaking out in the dark to steal somebody else’s prog.
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