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Home Lifestyle Halloween

Three generations of Glasgow Halloween memories

You’d be surprised what Jenny Wilson can whip together with a chopped up cornflakes packet and a black t-shirt. Oh, and she’s like this opportunity to publicly apologise to her brother

Jenny WilsonbyJenny Wilson
31-10-2022 18:30
in Halloween
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Author's children ready for Halloween. All pictures in this article by Jenny Wilson, printed with permission

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My Uncle John, who was born in 1932, used to tell us tales of Glasgow Halloween’s past, when he and his friends tied the tenement close doors together across the stairway in their Glasgow tenement! They wore dark clothes so they wouldn’t be seen.

I have always had a love of Halloween, and can remember the year when I was 11 and went out guising as a witch. My brother, however, who was four-years-old at the time, has never forgiven me for making him walk four-legged as my cat! I apologise publicly! My good friend Jane dressed that year as the Smash Man robot of mashed potato advertisement fame. The following year, the two of us created a pantomime horse and I can remember us doing a dance in an old lady’s house as she worriedly watched her china dancing in her display cabinet. Sadly, no photos were taken. Changed days!

The fun of it in those days was making your own costume, which often took days to plan and create. Another costume I remember was my brother dressing as an “uncivil servant” complete with an old walking stick and bowler hat we’d found in the loft!

With my own children I tried to keep the DIY element in the costume designs going. My creativity was tested to the limit when my six-year-old son refused to go to the school disco that evening unless he could go as a skeleton! Well, I managed it!! One chopped up cornflakes packet and a black t-shirt later and we had created one!

Enjoy Halloween if you are guising. I’m looking forward to seeing all those fun costumes and hearing some new jokes!


Next on Bylines Scotland’s Halloween, monster, festive celebration at 5:00pm: “The bored, irritable, Laird of the manor is lamenting the lack of ghosts. Perhaps the housekeeper can help?” by Martje Ross


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Jenny Wilson

Jenny Wilson

Jenny Wilson has lived in Glasgow, Perth and St Andrews and has family connections with Moray. For a long time Jenny has nurtured an interest in the politics of Scotland. She believes the nation's best interests would be served by building strong economic and cultural ties with Europe. She has recently been involved in the Glasgow Loves EU series of lockdown livestream interviews, which can be found on YouTube. Jenny has also been involved with others in designing and writing a number of Eurowalks in Scotland, highlighting our European links (www.eurowalks.scot).

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