▶Date of birth: 22 June 1910    Place of birth: Witham, Essex

▶Father: William Ernest Bull     Mother: Annie Gertrude Kent

▶Spouse(s): Audrey Mary Bull      Date(s) of marriage: 27 June 1938      Place(s) of marriage: Tewkesbury Abbey

▶Occupation: Aero Engine Tester (1939)

▶Lifestory:  In 1939 Kenneth and his wife were living near Bristol. By October 1941 the had moved to The White House, Pittville Gates, after their house near Bristol was damaged in an air raid.

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Gloucestershire Echo 22 October 1941

"UNFAIR TRADING" ALLEGATION

A defendant at the Cheltenham County Court on Tuesday who admitted the debt, told Judge Kennedy that he had withheld payment as a form of protest against the unfair trading methods of the plaintiffs, who had used the Bristol Council of Social Services to trace him.

He was Kenneth William Bull, of Whitehouse, Pittville Gates, and he was sued by Electricity House, Leeds, for the return of a vacuum cleaner supplied to him by hire purchase at a price of £14 5s. in March 1940, and on which there was a balance of £7 10s. still owing.

The Judge made an order for £7 10s. without costs, which defendant thereupon paid by cheque. Plaintiffs were represented by Mr. H. F. Midwinter.

HOUSE DAMAGED

Defendant told the court that after his house near Bristol had been damaged by enemy action he wrote three letters to the plaintiffs, to which he got no reply. He heard that they had also suffered as a result of enemy action and did not know where to make payments. In July this year he received a letter from the Bristol Council of Social Service, which kept a register for the purpose of reuniting families or friends who had lost contact as a result of enemy action.

The Council wrote him that they had an anxious inquiry concerning him from a Miss Betty Scrutton at a Leeds address. He and his wife knew of no such person and replied as from the address of a friend at Evesham. In reply he got a threatening letter from the plaintiffs. He protested to the plaintiffs about their action. He did all he could to re-establish contact with the plaintiffs after they had been bombed, and as soon as that was done he resumed payments. He read a letter from the Bristol Council of Social Service supporting his protest against the use of the Council for the purposes of debt collecting.

▶Moved to Pittville from: Bradley Stoke near Bristol     Moved from Pittville to:

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▶Notes:   ID: 17465

Contributor(s): David Drinkwater