Bonfire Night, prog raids and cob-coaling

‘In Halifax … 5 November was known as Plot Night,’ says Bridget Cuthbertson. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

Re your letters on “chumping” and “progging” (Letters, 4 November), growing up in Halifax in the 60s and 70s, 5 November was known as Plot Night. So as we went round the doors collecting wood, what else would we be doing other than plotting?
Bridget Cuthbertson
Hexham, Northumberland

• The best part of progging was prog raiding – sneaking out in the dark to steal somebody else’s prog.
Paul Williams
Cuil Bay, Argyll

• In Oldham in the 50s and 60s, we went “cob-coaling”, taking our guy in a wheelbarrow from door to door and singing the cob-coaling song.
Robert Newton
Oldham

• In Barnsley we always called it “bunnywooding”.
Ken Gambles
Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

• In Wakefield we went “chubbing”.
Jan Clark
Everdon, Northamptonshire

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