penny for the guy!!!!

[Andy]

when i was a kid we used to make a guy and go round the houses,or penny for the lattern but it seems it has been forgotten bout now..

[Greeners]

Funny I was telling my daughter about this yesterday, I remember the one year we stood outside the local supermarket all day and made a fortune!!!  

[Tamiyoman]

I Remember going out doing the same thing with a few of my friends when we were kids, with an old Guy Fawkes on a little trolley, we used to do topical back then so if the local councillor was upto no good it was his face pasted on the old football for a head lol.

Later on in life we also used to go out "Cob a Coaling" (Singing a bonfirm night song of which i can now only remember the first line lol), used to visit the main streets/roads etc in the village with an old Sweet tin to collect in and then we would traipse up to the 3 old folks homes on outskirts of village, i think it used to be the highlight of their month and they used to lavish us with cash and also "A few sweets for your walk home!".
It pretty much used to pay for all the fireworks!.

Happy memories indeed 

[Betty02]

Dew kids around my work have started to do it lately, I'm not usually stereo-typical but judging from the are I work in, plus the fact I know them from the school I work in I could almost guarantee the money people toss at them goes straight onto fags so I refuse these days!

Shame as it was a good old tradition!

[damoegan]

.........I remember the one year we stood outside the local supermarket all day and made a fortune!!!  

Thats what we used to do, too