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This Story is submitted by a volunteer on behalf of Radio Bristol Action Desk at City of Bristol College.

Terry Bullock remembers his time as a young lad in Knowle West during the Blitz on Bristol and the pranks that he and his friends got up to!

In Victoria Park in Bedminster there was a school building that was being used as a store for American army equipment. We used to climb a wall in order to make our way into the building and aquire surplus american army equipment!!!

My favourite was the helmets that we got hold of and we used to take them home and play soldiers with them, using pieces of wood or whatever we could find to use as guns!

There were more serious and worrying incidents however, especially during air raids. The windows of our house had tape in a cross on it so that, when shattered the, glass would not fly across the room.

I used to have a toy double decker bus which had a battery operated light on the front. One night, when the air raid siren went off, we all rushed to the anderson shelter in the back garden and unfortunatly I left the bus light on...

The next morning when we woke to find that other people in the road had lost their houses during the attack,I was told that it was because I'd left that bus light on!

Even though I believe it was meant to have been light hearted, it bothered me for years.

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