FabSwingers.com forum: 1976 summer

By *avexx OP Man
over a year ago

cheshire

for us old ones never been one like it,,

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By *aughty Couple ABCCouple
over a year ago

West Bromwich

There certainly won't!

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By *ormorantMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Scorchio….

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By *unx2019Couple
over a year ago

Moray

Was very hot in Kent that year, if remember rightly!!!

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By *ary 121Man
over a year ago

East Bergholt

"for us old ones never been one like it,,"
. Like a 3rd world country,queuing up in the street for some water

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Apart from the Summers of 2003, 2006 and 2018, which the Met Office considers to be tied as the equal hottest on record!

Unless you’re talking about shagging strangers off t’internet and then 2017 and 2018 are definitely the peak

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wouldn't remember I was only little in 1976

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nice try. Summer 2016 was the greatest.

All summer 16

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Was in the Isle of Wight, too many ladybirds for my enjoyment

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

We had a family holiday to Highfields Holiday Park in Clacton.

Was the best summer ever.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Things were simpler back then.

No social media.

Rainbow finger socks.

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By *avexx OP Man
over a year ago

cheshire

yes it was safe then,,,

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By *ixiePoisonWoman
over a year ago

Darlington

We went to Cornwall, I contracted measles, spent two weeks asleep under a parasol....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remember it well with the stand pipes in the street.

The days before we had proper sun cream and burnt to hell.

Although 2018 was a close second as I was off work all summer after having back surgery.

Harold.

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By *iromancergirl1Woman
over a year ago

bolton

That’s when I was born

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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago

Reading

I remember well. Started new job. More money

. My hobby then and still is fishing. Sitting on lakes watching the carp swimming on surface and not feeding

. Yet great time as no rain etc. I could go out set up equipment, pack up and go home . Without having to worry about drying out all equipment as a lot of times .

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

I was young. Spent the hottest 2 weeks wearing nothing more than knickers and calamine lotion as I had chickenpox

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By *obilebottomMan
12 weeks ago

All over

Certainly not this year

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By *iltsTSgirlTV/TS
12 weeks ago

chichester

I wasn’t alive then. What did I miss

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By *ackformore100Man
12 weeks ago

Tin town

Bath with a friend

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
12 weeks ago

notts

Tarmac on the road melted

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By *ipsforlipsMan
12 weeks ago

Midlands

We've had hot summers since '76, and I expect will do again - for me the stand-out thing about it was the reaction to it, that I don't think we've seen since, and with global warming making year's hotter all round, I suspect we won't see the same reactions again. So for me, '76 will remain unique, but it's not just the temperatures that made it so.

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By *elix SightedMan
12 weeks ago

Cloud 8

I was a foetus in those days. But I was on gcse study leave for the long hot summer of ‘93 and went to my local lake every day with friends. Definitely the climate’s fault for me getting shit results.

That’s also the summer I accidentally (genuinely) found studland beach.

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

It was the year that punk broke in the UK

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By *avexx OP Man
12 weeks ago

cheshire

"It was the year that punk broke in the UK"
,,, it certainly was

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

"We had a family holiday to Highfields Holiday Park in Clacton.

Was the best summer ever."

We did that every year in the 80s

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By *avexx OP Man
12 weeks ago

cheshire

what made summer 1976 unique the jet stream was far north as possible which opened the uk up to a mediterranean summer,,, was a rare occurence

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By *erkshire8299Man
12 weeks ago

slough

1976....when punk rock first raised its head...Sex Pistols Anarchy in The UK released and the Bill Grundy interview which resulted in most of their winter tour cancelled ..i saw them three times that year....amazing.

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By *arkus1812Man
12 weeks ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

Remember it well, got well an truly sunburnt on a Cornish beach after falling asleep following a very alcoholic lunch

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By *ackformore100Man
12 weeks ago

Tin town

"We've had hot summers since '76, and I expect will do again - for me the stand-out thing about it was the reaction to it, that I don't think we've seen since, and with global warming making year's hotter all round, I suspect we won't see the same reactions again. So for me, '76 will remain unique, but it's not just the temperatures that made it so. "

Can you imagine the water companies rolling round the streets with browsers with fresh clean drinkable water for free now?

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By *ripfillMan
12 weeks ago

havant

“Share a shower with a friend” … the advert to

Protect water supplies … never looked back !

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By *abioMan
12 weeks ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

For someone who wasn’t here what was it about 76 that was so special?

Was it the heat or was it the duration?

Didn’t we have 40 degrees here just a few years ago during COVID… I remember specifically asking to work in the office rather than at home specifically because the office had AC!

I have done 100 degree days in New York… more unbearable are the 80 degree nights! It’s partly the reason I chose to live in the north east!

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By *ivemealadybonerWoman
12 weeks ago

somewhere

I was born in 79 so just missed it but I do remember summers in the 80s where it hasn't rained for weeks and standing in the garden when it did!

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By *ools and the brainCouple
12 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

Swarms of ladybirds and a draught.

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By *lynJMan
12 weeks ago

Morden

The year I finished school and went off to uni.

Spent the summer holidays working as a lab assistant at the school I'd just left. It was very different being on the staff 🙂

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
12 weeks ago

East Sussex

I was coming up for 20. If I'd known then what I know now ...

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By *ackformore100Man
12 weeks ago

Tin town

"For someone who wasn’t here what was it about 76 that was so special?

Was it the heat or was it the duration?

Didn’t we have 40 degrees here just a few years ago during COVID… I remember specifically asking to work in the office rather than at home specifically because the office had AC!

I have done 100 degree days in New York… more unbearable are the 80 degree nights! It’s partly the reason I chose to live in the north east!

Heat. But wasn't so much the exceptional temperatures as the duration and lack of rainful. The Sahara dust. Didn't get colder at night. That and the west indies cricket team destroying us.

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By (user no longer on site)
12 weeks ago

"I was coming up for 20. If I'd known then what I know now ..."

We're you a punk back then, into a bit of glam rock or ready and waiting for the disco era?

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
12 weeks ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Nope, I'm too young

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By *ornucopiaMan
12 weeks ago

Bexley

"The year I finished school and went off to uni.

Spent the summer holidays working as a lab assistant at the school I'd just left. It was very different being on the staff 🙂

Was there much to do during the holidays, apart from feeding the gerbils?

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By *avexx OP Man
12 weeks ago

cheshire

swarms of ladybirds and lots of grass snakes along the canal..

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By *ivilised matureMan
12 weeks ago

Barnes sometimes Dulwich Village

I was hiking across the North Yorkshire Moors and if I had been on my own I'd have been naked it was so hot

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By *os19Man
12 weeks ago

Edmonton

I was 8 years old and was in shorts , T-shirt and sandals and going to the local lido in my area with my parents for swimming just to stay cool

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By *orkshire biMan
12 weeks ago

elland

I was born in 76. My poor mum 😆

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By *avexx OP Man
12 weeks ago

cheshire

the punk rock scene was up and running,, i was more of a mod

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By *lynJMan
12 weeks ago

Morden

"The year I finished school and went off to uni.

Spent the summer holidays working as a lab assistant at the school I'd just left. It was very different being on the staff 🙂

Was there much to do during the holidays, apart from feeding the gerbils?"

Yes. Had to hatch a new brood of locusts. Set up a telephone between the labs. Deionise water. Distill water. Restock chemicals. Clean various bits of equipment. And look after the rats - no gerbils.

There was never a quiet day.

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By *ortyairCouple
12 weeks ago

Wallasey

It was sunny for months with only one break in the weather for about a week.

Reservoirs dried up, swarms of ladybirds and seem to remember seeing something about it helping to increase the popularity of lager due to the fact it was a 'chilled' beer.

Never been a summer like it for continuous sunny days.

Mrs x

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