Halloween: Photos of County Durham and Darlington Trick-or-treaters

Kids of all ages dressed up in scary costumes for the annual festival with the weather holding up for an evening of door knocking.

Youngsters dressed as aliens, pumpkins, ghosts and more as they took to the streets with their jack-o’-lanterns.

Trick-or-treaters in Darlington. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Popular outfit themes this year’s are said to have included pop sensation Chappell Roan and the new Beetlejuice film.

Pumpkins, skeletons and ghosts adorned homes across the UK for Halloween this year, with some families working for “months” to kit out their homes in spooky décor.

A spooky skeleton walks the streets of Hunwick, County Durham. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Halloween has its origins in the Western Christian feast of All Saints’ Day. It begins the observance of Allhallowtide - the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints, martyrs and all the faithful departed.

Poppy Fraser and Astrid Davison are frightening cheerleaders. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Lennox, Ebony and Beau make a terrifying trio. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Hunwick for Halloween pictured Jason Blanchflower, Callum Baring, Megan Stonebanks and Mollie Stonebank outside the girls' impressive Halloween house. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) A wizard walking the streets. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Frightening costumes on display in Hunwick. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Are twins Finley & Robbie Calvert cute or petrifying? (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT)

Some went all out on their costumes. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Kanan Chaurley, Ellen-Ann Wright and Esme Greenwood out in Hunwick. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT)