We never dressed up when we were kids but we did hollow out a Turnip...(yes a Turnip we never heard of or seen a Pumpkin), and make a face on it, then we would stand a candle in the middle of it, then we would either hang around outside pubs or go knocking on peoples doors and say "Penny for Halloween" yes we could beg with the best of them, but never heard of trick or treat and stuff like that until i was older, if we said trick or treat when we were kids and some buffoon showed us a trick instead of giving us some cash, we would have probably lynched them. Then of course a week later it was penny for the Guy, now that is exclusive to us Brits, we loved that week it was the only time some of us scruffy kids seen money.