[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by SoulManic

Does anyone else remember seeing remnants of the camouflage paint which originally covered all the factory buildings at the Bristol site during the war to avoid the site being bombed. As far as I know the nearest bomb destroyed a terraced house above the Greyhound pub on the opposite side of Whalley Road - about a mile away. The result was a gap in the row of houses which was left there for decades afterwards.

The last remnants of the camoflage I remember seeing were the black stripes on some of the older buildings on the left, as you entered from the main gate, that was in the mid 1950's and they were very faded.
The gap in the houses was caused by a couple of incediaries, jerry was on his way back from bombing Manchester, and they were clearing the bomb racks, they could have dropped anywhere between Manchester and Liverpool, Clayton won.

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