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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

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

I was cooking in my Mumma's tummy

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Battling Ladybirds while on holiday in the Isle of Wight

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

had my eldest that year and all the beautiful dresses id bought were useless cos too hot to use

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I was about to start secondary school and we couldnt go until the october because of no water or burst pipes or something. I just remember we didnt start school till october

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

I remember the drought and my Dad having to queue to get water, but it was mostly just kid things like spending the entire summer on bike rides and dressing up as playing cards for the Village fete.

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By *iss_Samantha_LovecockTV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

i was getting very sunburnt on Bournemouth beach ..i remember it well

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

Cubs camp for.me

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By *nne CallanWoman
over a year ago

Nothing to see here. Please move along.

Summer 76 I spent in a children's home. I got serious heat stroke and ended up in hospital.

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By *antsguy007Man
over a year ago

Whiteley

Not even yet a twinkle in my Dad's eye

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

All I remember was going on holiday the day the rains came

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

I was being born. (2nd sep)

PTU xxx

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

I was four and I remember playing in the fields and hay making on a near farm.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

I was 11 and finishing primary school...about the only thing I remember about that summer was the cracks in the earth on the school field where it had parched

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

mum and dad took us to stonehenge festival, i vividly remember playing in the sun with all the other kids ... i remember seeing some people playing music although i don't know who it was .... i remember riding on the back of a motorcycle over the field past the stone circle .... i remember loving every minute of it all and the feeling of being utterly free and not having any cares or worries

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

In basic training in the Army, it was feckin warm..

some prat of an NCO decided it was a good idea to limit us to 2 pints of water when we were out marching, 3 people collapsed and 1 was hospitalised..

ironically they stopped the training and sent us on heath fire fighting for a week..

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

I was 18 and spent the whole of the summer with a guy who had a trade stand at Agricultural shows (wood crafts). A long hot summer travelling all over the country. A great 3 months then I went off to Uni.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I was 19 that summer, at college and working in a cafe on the beach. Oood times.

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

i an remember that summer! we had to share bathwater...not really a big deal with 3 kids...and i remember my mum being angry with my dad because he'd sneaked out in the night to water the garden!

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

I was 11

I remember the parched yellow grass and millions of ladybirds

I also remember the stand pipes and the hose pipe ban..

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

I was madly in love with my first love and having a whale of a summer with our hippie crowd....I can remember the heat and the pubs running out of beer!!

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I was eleven and had mumps and chicken pox. We lived in the 18th floor of a council tower block and I would sit on the balcony and watch the heat haze across London.

When I started secondary school we were told we had to wear our new blazers on the first day. It was huge on me and wool and I was hotter than a hot thing in an hot oven.

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

I was 5 and fascinated about the concept of frying an egg on the pavement.

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

The world was not yet blessed with my presence.

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


"The world was not yet blessed with my presence. "

It was a darker time back then.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"I was 5 and fascinated about the concept of frying an egg on the pavement. "

We tried to do that on the bonnet of Dad's car. It didn't really fry but the residue took ages to come out.

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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago

Chippenham Malmesbury area


"I was cooking in my Mumma's tummy "

Odd place to have a kitchen

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By *lovisMan
over a year ago

Twickenham

I remember laying on the sofa listening to Love at the Greek - a live album by Neil Diamond and thinking that it was a hot summer night was a great line for the time.

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

We were on holiday at Highfields in Clacton. We have photos of us all with very red faces. It was one of my most memorable holidays. I remember my sister who was 14 at the time playing In Zaire on the jukebox in the diner, repeatedly.

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


"I was 5 and fascinated about the concept of frying an egg on the pavement.

We tried to do that on the bonnet of Dad's car. It didn't really fry but the residue took ages to come out. "

Oops. The grown ups convinced us but we never saw it. The wonder grew.

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


"The world was not yet blessed with my presence.

It was a darker time back then."

You missed a great summer. And flared jeans.

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


"I was cooking in my Mumma's tummy

Odd place to have a kitchen"

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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago

Chippenham Malmesbury area

All that I can remember is the cracked, scorched earth and being on Studland beach with my brother; both having to lay in our stomachs Kevin and Perry style

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

Was that the year of the drought where we had to get water from a standpipe in the street?

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By *mm_n_ZedCouple
over a year ago

Fareham

I was 14 and had a great time going to the beach nearly every day or taking a trip across the ferry to Southsea.

It was a tough time for adults because of the drought but that didn't bother me - I just loved being out with my mates in the sunshine. Good times!

Emm x

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

I was 11 and went to guide camp where the toilet from hell was a galvanised bucket which not surprisingly in that awful heat attracted huge numbers of flies. This revolting receptacle then had to be emptied into an even more hellish cesspit each day - this task fell upon the guides and I can remember all but crying and retching when it was my turn, and basically holding my breath for the duration as we were surrounded by flies. It felt medieval - not sure the concept of Health and Safety existed much. Furthermore we were out all day every day for a week without so much as a sniff of suncream - practically all of us burnt badly yet it seemed to be accepted back then, even in the middle of a heatwave.

Can remember the agony of going anywhere in the family car which had vinyl seats that burnt your bum and legs and where the only air conditioning available was opening the windows - which then blew in a blast of hot air akin to opening an oven door.

And Elton John and Kiki Dee's 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' seemed to play incessently that summer ...

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

I wasn't born and my parents never mentioned it, oddly enough...

It's been hot, yeah, but it's nothing compared to summers in NY so I've been enjoying the weather.

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


"I wasn't born and my parents never mentioned it, oddly enough...

It's been hot, yeah, but it's nothing compared to summers in NY so I've been enjoying the weather. "

Even farts smell sweeter in NY.

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

Snogging a Welsh guardsman stationed at Caterham Barracks.

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

Demis Roussos. I loved that song.

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


"I wasn't born and my parents never mentioned it, oddly enough...

It's been hot, yeah, but it's nothing compared to summers in NY so I've been enjoying the weather.

Even farts smell sweeter in NY."

True.

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By *mokes n MirrorsCouple
over a year ago

Plymouth and Newcastle (sometimes)

15 years old.

Got sunstroke.

Burned my feet on the sand.

The roads all melted.

Broken down cars everywhere with steam coming out, ours included.

I don't like the sun as I burn, peel then burn again

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


"And Elton John and Kiki Dee's 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' seemed to play incessently that summer ...

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i remember that song ... i was on dads shoulders at hyde park watching kiki dee singing it to a small carboard cut out of elton john on the stage ... i remember giggling all the way through the song because it seemed so odd

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


"Snogging a Welsh guardsman stationed at Caterham Barracks."

That brings back memories

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By *educedWoman
over a year ago

Birmingham


"Battling Ladybirds while on holiday in the Isle of Wight "

I remember that. Vaguely...but in Weymouth.

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


"Was that the year of the drought where we had to get water from a standpipe in the street?"

I think it was.

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By *irestorm 500Couple
over a year ago

coventry

Yep ..i was 13 taking lessons on the cricket field as it was to hot to be in the school hall

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

I was playing in my back garden with my dog in Southern Africa - it was probably slightly cooler that 40c as it was winter

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

That was a long 3 months of heat, with extended periods in the 30s, I read a while back. So we'd have a lot more of this to equal it. I'd hate it.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

I was born at the end of that summer. So no, I don't remember it. My mum has often pointed out just how hard it was being heavily pregnant that summer but I did considerately come out a few weeks earlier than I was meant to, so despite me ending up being the youngest in my year at every school I went to she appreciates my thoughtfulness.

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By *obwithkiltMan
over a year ago

Belton

I was 7...summer was spent in Bournemouth and all I can remember is listening to lots of Abba and Cliff as the lady of the house we were staying at had piles of cassettes which I listened to while bored of the adults talking

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Was that the year of the drought where we had to get water from a standpipe in the street?"

Yes. Telly pictures of people queuing to get water.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"I wasn't born and my parents never mentioned it, oddly enough...

It's been hot, yeah, but it's nothing compared to summers in NY so I've been enjoying the weather. "

I was never keen on NY summers though

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"I was born at the end of that summer. So no, I don't remember it. My mum has often pointed out just how hard it was being heavily pregnant that summer but I did considerately come out a few weeks earlier than I was meant to, so despite me ending up being the youngest in my year at every school I went to she appreciates my thoughtfulness. "

How thoughtful of you, even then.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"I wasn't born and my parents never mentioned it, oddly enough...

It's been hot, yeah, but it's nothing compared to summers in NY so I've been enjoying the weather. "

The only tubing we could do was underground.

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

Writing my name in the melting tarmac pavement with a ice lolly stick.

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


"

If you were around, what were you doing?

"

Like most 2 month old, suckling at my mothers breast and shitting 5 times my weight in nappies

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


"

If you were around, what were you doing?

Like most 2 month old, suckling at my mothers breast and shitting 5 times my weight in nappies "

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

Picking the tar on the pavement with a lollipop stick

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Picking the tar on the pavement with a lollipop stick "

I was thinking that we haven't had melty tar in this weather.

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


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

"

I was wearing that wonderfully androgynous hippy style where it was hard to tell the girls from the boys ....

I loved 76 for the music the fashion and the period of carefree discovery it provided me...... For a kid my age to learn how to drink, smoke and discover what my willy was for, was simply a summer long blast I'll never forget...

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


"Battling Ladybirds while on holiday in the Isle of Wight "

Who won?

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By *lay 4 uMan
over a year ago

bolton

Happy days beating fire in Thames Valley .

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


"The world was not yet blessed with my presence.

It was a darker time back then."

That was because of the power cuts.

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


"I was cooking in my Mumma's tummy "

I was cooking in a pram.

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

I got married. With hindsight,possibly a result of heatstroke

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

I was 5 and had chicken pox.

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By *ighland gentlemanMan
over a year ago

Ardgay

9 years old.

I recall the cracked earth and the melted tar.

We were posted to aldershot at the time, it was a long hot drive north to Scotland to visit home on leave.

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


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

"

I was almost 4 and making the most of it, or hiding from it.

I make it 41 years ago, maybe I missed too much school in '76.

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By *reygorCouple
over a year ago

birmingham

bought my first jag car xj6 with air con .[madly only a few makes had electric windows and air con them days]oh how have them days gone so quick.ha ha.

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

I remember it well,was about 11 or 12,dad had a mercedes convertible sports car

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

My parents were together but not married at that point....

So I have only heard about it

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By *iss InnocenceWoman
over a year ago

Coventry/Bristol

I was getting ready to coming into the world born in the middle of a thurder storm my mom told me

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Endless days of being outdoors and enjoying our paddling pool!

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

I remember the standpipes for the water. I was 11 and just waiting to start secondary school. I also remember wearing a giant sombrero, no idea where it came from. But lots of lazy days x

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

I was in Broadway and the Evesham Vale on a caravan holiday with my folks. I remember how scorching it was all summer.

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By *ensualguy70TV/TS
over a year ago

paisley


"I remember laying on the sofa listening to Love at the Greek - a live album by Neil Diamond and thinking that it was a hot summer night was a great line for the time. "

I still have that album. I rememver i was 5 at the time keeping out of the sun to avoid being cooked alive

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By *ust Us TogetherCouple
over a year ago

Newport

Sitting in the pub every evening supping a pint for 16p.......riding my motorbike down to Littlehamption with my mates at the weekend, laughing at all the peeps stuck in their tin boxes with vinyl seats and overheating engines....

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

Was on holiday in Hastings and got sunstroke

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

"

I was getting sunstroke

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


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

"

Stuck in traffic around kings Lynn heading to great Yarmouth on a family holiday. Pontins Caister

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


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

I was getting sunstroke

Me too

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold

Giant haystacks!

Both the big rooks in the fields and the saturday afternoon variety

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By *arehamMan
over a year ago

handforth

Best summer ever I was going out with a woman from Crawley never came to any thing never even fucked her but a lovely summer

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


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

"
I was according to family photos.. in a paddling pool and splashing in a rock pool in Jersey

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

I was 7 or 8

Outside every day.. Water fights..swimming pools and the beach. Dont remember much else but just having fun and didn't burn at all.

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

I don't remember, I was 4!!

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

Sitting my GCEs...

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

I was 5, and as it was in Wales it was probably raining

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


"Battling Ladybirds while on holiday in the Isle of Wight "

i remember the ladybirds - up near school we couldnt hardly walk one part of the path for crushing them as there were literally thousands of them -

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


"Sitting my GCEs..."

o levels ??

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

its also a great song by the Alarm

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By *haggerMan
over a year ago

Warwickshire

The West Indies were touring

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By *anky_PankyWoman
over a year ago

Filthy Fuckeryville

I wasn't conceived til Aug 76

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


"I wasn't conceived til Aug 76 "

I was 13 then and discovering the delights of puberty

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

Playing cricket all day on the local sports field. Going to skegvegas with my cousin for two weeks and trying to learn How To chat up girls...a skill I haven't mastered!

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By *anky_PankyWoman
over a year ago

Filthy Fuckeryville


"I wasn't conceived til Aug 76

I was 13 then and discovering the delights of puberty "

Owd git!

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


"I wasn't conceived til Aug 76

I was 13 then and discovering the delights of puberty

Owd git! "

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

I was probably screaming, puking, eating and pooping. I was 6 months old

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


"Sitting my GCEs...

o levels ??"

Indeed..

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


"Sitting my GCEs...

o levels ??

Indeed.."

or cse's if you were in a lower stream

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

It was scorching, and the office I was in was stifling and airless - I remember several of us ending up working topless and not caring...

The earth was scorched and barren, and the heat was killing so many older people.

The roads were melting, and car engines were cooking...

It was hot!!!

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

I was almost 4 and making the most of it, or hiding from it.

I make it 41 years ago, maybe I missed too much school in '76."

It was but the weather forecasters keep saying 40 years ago.

According to my TwitTwat feed we're 0.1 degree off the magic 34 at the official measuring site but expected to make it.

I have a friend visiting from Australia laughing her head off that we're calling this the hottest June day.

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By *od ThrusterMan
over a year ago

Newport Pagnell

I remember two things:

1. Brown grass everywhere.

2. Being stuck in a traffic jam on a boiling hot day and literally not moving for hours.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Sitting my GCEs...

o levels ??

Indeed..

or cse's if you were in a lower stream"

I knew someone would cover it all.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I haven't seen a "Phew! What a scorcher" headline for a while.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

I was almost 4 and making the most of it, or hiding from it.

I make it 41 years ago, maybe I missed too much school in '76.

It was but the weather forecasters keep saying 40 years ago.

According to my TwitTwat feed we're 0.1 degree off the magic 34 at the official measuring site but expected to make it.

I have a friend visiting from Australia laughing her head off that we're calling this the hottest June day."

My Mum still talks about a Christmas in an apartment without air conditioning in Perth. I think it was a touch warm.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

I was almost 4 and making the most of it, or hiding from it.

I make it 41 years ago, maybe I missed too much school in '76.

It was but the weather forecasters keep saying 40 years ago.

According to my TwitTwat feed we're 0.1 degree off the magic 34 at the official measuring site but expected to make it.

I have a friend visiting from Australia laughing her head off that we're calling this the hottest June day.

My Mum still talks about a Christmas in an apartment without air conditioning in Perth. I think it was a touch warm."

I can feel myself melting at the thought.

The first time I went to Canada it was the middle of summer and 30 degrees at 11pm. I spent a lot of time in malls.

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

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Living in Germany. Played British Bulldog a lot. Got my first pair of wedges and my first bra

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


"The world was not yet blessed with my presence.

It was a darker time back then.

You missed a great summer. And flared jeans. "

Gentle folk jeans?

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


"mum and dad took us to stonehenge festival, i vividly remember playing in the sun with all the other kids ... i remember seeing some people playing music although i don't know who it was .... i remember riding on the back of a motorcycle over the field past the stone circle .... i remember loving every minute of it all and the feeling of being utterly free and not having any cares or worries"
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Spifffing stuff Sebastian, was there ice scweam as well

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over a year ago

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


"The weather forecasters keep saying that tomorrow will be as hot as June '76. They keep saying this was 40 years ago. Obviously, I know this to be true but...

If you were around, what were you doing?

If you weren't, did your parents tell you about our heatwave, drought summer?

"

I remember the water lorries.

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

I was 9, and I remember the pavement melting outside out house, and they had to cone it off to stop people sticking to it when they were queueing for the standpipe down our street.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"The first time I went to Canada it was the middle of summer and 30 degrees at 11pm. I spent a lot of time in malls."

It was a heat wave in Toronto when we went, and New York last week was seriously hot. I mean, its hot here, but it could be worse.

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

I was enjoying the sun at home with a 14mth old daughter.

No water, every

garden was completely brown.

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

In these parts theres usually plenty of water lying around, but in that summer of 76 the locals drank Coniston down to 1 foot deep.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

34.5 and the tarmac around here is still holding itself together.

Thanks for your memories - they sparked some of my own.

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


"In these parts theres usually plenty of water lying around, but in that summer of 76 the locals drank Coniston down to 1 foot deep."
#

makes you realise how much water we waste - i remember the bath water being used to water the veggies and plants- my dad was a keen gardener

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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago

Traffic land


"I was enjoying the sun at home with a 14mth old daughter.

No water, every

garden was completely brown. "

I was 14 months old and remember nothing

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

I was running around in shorts getting up to all sorts of mischief and trying to snog the girls playing kiss chase as a nipper.

Not much has changed in 40 years ..

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

I was living in South Africa. This heat is nothing

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

Some of us back then also tried to help out by drinking only Water Substitute. In that heat this was usually Lager.

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

All this nice weather wasted while I'm sat around in unairconditioned office

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Some of us back then also tried to help out by drinking only Water Substitute. In that heat this was usually Lager."

If only it didn't take double the quantity of water to make it. The positive is that it was hopefully made when water was plentiful so it preserved liquid that would have evaporated in the heat.

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


"I was living in South Africa. This heat is nothing "

I've got an Aussie colleague who laughs when he sees 'what a scorcher!' headlines when we hit 30 degrees .. that's a mild Spring day where he's from!

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"All this nice weather wasted while I'm sat around in unairconditioned office "

We thank you for keeping the country going.

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


"Some of us back then also tried to help out by drinking only Water Substitute. In that heat this was usually Lager.

If only it didn't take double the quantity of water to make it. The positive is that it was hopefully made when water was plentiful so it preserved liquid that would have evaporated in the heat. "

Eggsacterly! It had probably already been made(at least before any UK heatwave induced shortage of water occured), and may well have been made in some cold sounding foreign land where they had plenty of the water anyway. I bet if it hadnt been for dedicated folk like us you wouldnt have a lake district now cos there wouldnt be any lakes. Just be the "big empty holes district"

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

I was 6 and all my primary school years were spent exploring fields, streams and woods, summer of 76 lasted longer for me!!

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By *hips n FursMan
over a year ago

Huddersfield

I was 11...remember the stand pipes at the end of the street. Dried out land with cracks all over the place.

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By *arry247Couple
over a year ago

Wakefield

Driving a truck with no air conditioning which had the engine directly under the cab.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

On holiday in Bournemouth

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

Crying, drinking breast milk, shitting in my nappy, same as this year really!

When I tell people over a certain age that I was born in '76, they always say "FUCK, YOU ARE GETTING OLD MAN!"

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

Sweet 17 and at Secretarial College. Fell in love for the first time whilst dancing to 10cc. Life was good despite the water shortage.

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By *ot40sCouple
over a year ago

birmingham

I was a carefree child living in Australia right by the beach running around in the beautiful sunshine

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By *reygorCouple
over a year ago

birmingham

being told by the government to take showers and baths together to save water.made a baby boom in 1977.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"being told by the government to take showers and baths together to save water.made a baby boom in 1977."

No accompanying safe showering message.

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By *reygorCouple
over a year ago

birmingham


"being told by the government to take showers and baths together to save water.made a baby boom in 1977.

No accompanying safe showering message. "
too many put condoms on there heads to keep hair dry .forgot about their willies ha

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By *rego69Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Youth hosteling in Devon. Remember walking across a dried up reservoir. It was very hot. Fruit on trees just split rather than swell due to lack of moisture.

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


"I was living in South Africa. This heat is nothing

I've got an Aussie colleague who laughs when he sees 'what a scorcher!' headlines when we hit 30 degrees .. that's a mild Spring day where he's from! "
. That in itself makes me laugh.

Have you been to Perth?

There's nobody out after 10am, its completely deserted and walking down the high street is like skin cancer clinic, bank, shop, skin cancer clinic, shop.. And then find me the building that doesn't have air conditioning!!.

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

Probably out playing in farmers fields or woods

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By *rank n BettyCouple
over a year ago

Not meeting

I was a newborn (sorry!) so don't remember but my mum constantly goes on about it!!

JG x

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

Im trying to convince myself the summer of 76 didnt last about 3 years, must have been all the Water Substitute we were putting away.

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

I was a one year old and apparently spent the entire summer naked

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Probably out playing in farmers fields or woods "

I hope you weren't being naughty like Theresa May.

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

Playing on the beach or on a boat, or jumping in streams with red wellies on. Some serious flares and a dodgy haircut are on display in photographs in the parents house. Good memories.

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


"Probably out playing in farmers fields or woods

I hope you weren't being naughty like Theresa May.

"

Oh I was an angel when I was younger

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

Poking the road surface with sticks and it moving where the tarmac was melting

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

Left primary school

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

As a kid growing up in Belfast I remember a lot of people running around trying to kill each other.working up to 77 when we had to get food hand outs because dad mum couldn't go to work because everyone was having fun blocking up the roads lol. Funny thing when I think back on it was the toy guns we had They were so real looking.And we ran about playing with them.

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

41 years ago. I was born in the middle of it

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

I remember playing tennis and lots of ice cream floats after.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"As a kid growing up in Belfast I remember a lot of people running around trying to kill each other.working up to 77 when we had to get food hand outs because dad mum couldn't go to work because everyone was having fun blocking up the roads lol. Funny thing when I think back on it was the toy guns we had They were so real looking.And we ran about playing with them."

A former lover describes '76 as the year he knew he had to leave Belfast for good...

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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners

Was 8 at the time ... Remember camping out in my parents back garden with my siblings and seeing what we though was a UFO in the sky...

Which turned out to be a weather balloon

Happy and simple childhood times...

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

Was getting my first regular sex with a girlfriend, parents went to France with younger brother. Girlfriend wearing espadrilles, wrap around skirt and halter top and nothing else. Just remember all the places and positions we tried....

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