Edinburgh retro: Halloween in Edinburgh during the 60s, 70s and 80s

Part of our Edinburgh retro series, this video looks back at pictures of Halloween in Edinburgh.

Transcript

00:00 Hello I'm Neil from the Evening News and this video is part of our retro series

00:04 where we look back at historic pictures of Edinburgh and its people. In this video

00:10 we'll be looking at 10 pictures from Halloween from the 50s through to 80s.

00:15 Here we see a children's Halloween party at the Greenside Parish Church in

00:20 Edinburgh 1971. At the centre of the picture is Elizabeth Watson duking for

00:26 apples. This picture from October 1988 shows six-year-old Fiona Cooke in a

00:35 spider costume for the geysers parade on the Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Here we see a

00:41 Halloween party at Lauriston Community Centre in October 1970. This picture from

00:48 1967 shows Elizabeth Smale on a trampoline during a Halloween party at

00:54 the Kangaroo Trampoline Centre in Portobello. This child managed to get the

01:00 apple but judging by their expression in this picture from 1968 I'm guessing that

01:05 water was pretty cold. Here we see children trying to catch treacle scones

01:11 at the children's Halloween party at Greenside Parish Church in November 1971.

01:17 In this picture we see girls from the 175th Brownies in Edinburgh duking for

01:24 apples at Halloween in 1968. Here we see youngsters out geysing in Leith in

01:32 October 1955. Margaret Bain MBE ran an elderly care home at Lambs House in

01:40 Leith for 20 years. Here we see geysers join Margaret on Halloween in 1967. This

01:48 picture shows the Tweedie Memorial Boys Club having their Halloween party in

01:54 1967. If you'd like to check out more retro content you can visit our website

02:00 at www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com and select the retro tab.

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