Mischief Night A Northern thing?

[joy]

The night before Guy Fawkes Night was always known as Mischief Night. Is this a Yorkshire practice as my partner a soft southern jessie and my Welsh friends here in the wild and woolly west have never heard of it.
They haven't heard of Plot Toffee either.

 

[bonney]

Erm, im from the north and i have never heard of it sorry.

 

[Baggybreeches]

Mischief night here is 30th oct!???

 

[SSM]

Think it's a northern thing!

We used to take cattle grid gates off - put them back upside down!!

Young Farmers for you!!

 

[Jemayni]

Ive heard of it & Im derbyshire so not really North, Ive never really "celebrated" it though

 

[cobden99]

There was an American lady on the radio the other day and she said that mischief night originated in the States and was the night before Halloween. Never heard of it before then

 

[prose]

I'm from Lancashire, and had never heard of it until watching film of the same name.

 

[MurphysMinder]

I'm originally from Cheshire and had never heard of it until last year. Daughter is at uni in Liverpool and apparently they are very big on "mizzy" night up there. Loads of kids throwing bricks at the windows at halls of residence etc. She is sharing a house this year so not so bad but a few eggs being thrown apparently!

 

[MurphysMinder]

Just read first post properly - in Liverpool mischief night is the night before Halloween, i.e. 30th October.

 

[kerilli]

never heard of it. and what's Plot Toffee, then?

 

[Oaksflight]

It's a yorkshire thing, no-one seems to know why it happens and why its just in yorkshire and no-where else though. And its on 4th november!

 

[Janette]

I'm originally from the North East and had never heard of it until I came to West Yorkshire

 

[whippet]

We called it mischievous night, used to do it as kids here in Lincolnshire, the night before Halloween. Never did anything naughtier than Knock and Run though

Absolutely no idea, then or now, of the origin of it!

Dread to think what the little buggers get up to now, I'm just glad we live way out in the sticks, and my two don't seem to have heard of it.

What's Plot toffee then? We've always had what we called Bonfire toffee, really dark & brittle, made with black treacle, and very YUMMY

. Aw, want some now

 

[Eagle_day]

Yes, it's also a Lincolnshire thing, always on 4th November.

I'll always remember some lads from school nicking the flags from outside Asda.