Bonfire Night, prog raids and cob-coaling | 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” (Letters, 4 November), 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?
Bridget Cuthbertson
Hexham, Northumberland

• The best part of progging was prog raiding – sneaking out in the dark to steal somebody else’s prog.
Paul Williams
Cuil Bay, Argyll

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