The present paper reports on experiments performed on X-ray coloured KC1 single crystals by means of dislocation photoconduction. This method makes use of the internal electric field developing in ionic crystals due to charged dislocations during their deformation. The effect of previous illuminations in the visible region on the photocurrent produced by VUV-light was also investigated, a memory effect and changes of the sign of the photocurrents were found under suitable conditions. It was shown that using visible light of high enough intensity the direction of the photocurrent produced by it also changes sign. The problems involved in the dislocation photoconduction method are discussed.