Stars share memories of Glasgow Halloweens past...

Doing a turn for a bag full of sweeties, fashioning a costume from binbags and some crepe paper? Did you shed blood, sweat and tears trying to carve a turnip into a lantern, then almost set it on fire by putting a candle inside it?

Here, some of Glasgow’s well-kent folk share their memories of Halloween…Get in touch to share yours.

LORRAINE KELLY, TV PRESENTER: “Halloween was a big deal for us when I was a kid at primary school living in Bridgeton in Glasgow.

“My dad would make a traditional lantern out of a neep and we’d dress up in homemade fancy dress.

“The favourite costume was a pirate as you just needed to wear your pyjamas, pop on a homemade eyepatch and have your mum paint on a moustache with her eyeliner…

“I also loved dressing as a witch with my mum’s black dress and a wig made out of black crepe paper.

“We went round the doors of all the houses in our close and into their room-and-kitchens to sing songs or tell a joke.

“We’d get some sweeties from the penny tray or homemade tablet, maybe an apple or monkey nuts, and sometimes even a silver sixpence. It was proper guising and not the commercial trick or treat imported from the USA.”

ELAINE MACKENZIE ELLIS, ACTOR: “As a child I loved the autumn term at school, culminating in Halloween - a proper Scottish Halloween with a City Bakeries cake and guising - not this trick-or-treating malarkey.

“In Sighthill, we would go round in groups up and down the flats. I was always disappointed when we were given sweets. I wanted a bagful of monkey nuts. I love monkey nuts. They just taste of cosy Halloweens...I’d maybe also go for a few satsumas in the mix.

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“My mum always loved doing our costumes. One of my favourites was ‘The Forgetful Tramp’, where I’d put on a battered top hat and one of my dad’s shirts which came down to my knees, dirty my hands and face with burnt cork and carry a pair of neatly pressed trousers carried over my arm.

“I won a family box of Poppets at the Brownies with that classic.”

PHILIP PETRIE, STV’s WEEKEND WEATHER PRESENTER : “I absolutely love Halloween. I remember as a child always dressing up every year, even if I wasn’t going guising or going to a party.

“It’s the one night of the year you can get dressed up as something spooky and have a scary good time.

“A lot of the old traditions I grew up with have been forgotten now, like dookin for apples or tattie bogles, but they are things I will pass on when I have kids.

“One of my all-time favourites was dressing up as Dracula, aged seven, when I used one of my mum’s skirts as a cape… oh dear.”

LAURA BOYD, ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER FOR STV NEWS: “My mum is very creative and always made our costumes growing up.

“One year she decided I should go as a bunch of grapes. I loved the idea in theory but the reality was not such a success.

“A green leotard with purple balloons all over it does indeed look like a bunch of grapes but at my Brownie party, I couldn’t sit down the entire evening and by the end of the night, I was a human pin cushion as everyone tried to pop the balloons…

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“I was obsessed with Challenge Anneka as a child (I think it was the jumpsuits) and dressed up as Anneka Rice for Halloween one year, with jumpsuit, bumbag and giant headphones, as if I had just jumped out of the helicopter.

“Fast forward to 2019 and she was a guest at my uncle’s wedding..

“I have met many famous faces in my time as an Entertainment Reporter but meeting the woman I had wanted to be when I was five was another level of joy.”