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The air raid warden was responsible for checking that every house had adequate black out on all the windows, this was very important because it hindered the German pilots in their missions to bomb Belfast, of course the Germans had aerial plans of Belfast, and knew were all the strategic buildings, railways and shipyard were, but the people of Belfast with their blackouts made sure that they would not make it any easier for the Germans to bomb them. One air raid warden who loved his job very much checked his blackouts keenly. One night after the air raid siren had gone he dutifully went about his business checking windows ,he saw a chink of light shining out from beneath someone鈥檚 window, the occupants of this particular house had grown tired of this over zealous warden, so when the warden shouted through their door ,鈥漈here is a light coming out from beneath your window, fix it鈥�, an uneasy silence pervaded for a couple of minutes, until at last a voice as if from the bowels of the earth ,(probably from underneath the staircase) shouted back to the warden, 鈥淚s them Germans coming over in planes, or on their hands and knees.鈥�

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