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The Summer of '76!!

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

It's starting to look like the summer of '76 out there, the grass is all burnt up, the pubs will be running out of beer soon!!

Do you remember those endless summers back then - lying on the grass chillin' out with the cool people and listening to groovy music?

Or what were you up to??

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

I was 4 and I do remember freaking out looking down at my yellow top which had gone black with the amount of little flies on me!!!

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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east


"It's starting to look like the summer of '76 out there, the grass is all burnt up, the pubs will be running out of beer soon!!

Do you remember those endless summers back then - lying on the grass chillin' out with the cool people and listening to groovy music?

Or what were you up to?? "

I was 5

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

I was being born

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By *lenderfoxMan
over a year ago

Leeds

I was still ten years away...

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By *icassolifelikeMan
over a year ago

Luton

I wasn’t even a developed tadpole in the old man’s sack then!

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

I was 3, I remember sitting in an empty dried out pond

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

I was almost 1 year old. I imagine I was being held up in a cold bowl of water.

I do remember my early 20's when the tarmac was melting and even during my teens a hosepipe ban. Police were using helicopters to catch people out

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

I was 5 and living in Wales so it was probably raining

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By *etLikeMan
over a year ago

most fundamental aspects

I remember the tar on the roads melting.

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"I was almost 1 year old. I imagine I was being held up in a cold bowl of water.

I do remember my early 20's when the tarmac was melting and even during my teens a hosepipe ban. Police were using helicopters to catch people out"

Ah yes, melting tarmac!!

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

I was 7 years old and constantly pestering my parents every time the ice cream van came around, which was three or four times a day!!

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

I was 2 and i can’t remember

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

I wasn't even a twinkle

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


"I was 5 and living in Wales so it was probably raining "

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By *ere2pleasureUMan
over a year ago

Kington

I was 11 and remember the woman in the next garden sunbathing topless.

I know, I'm shallow!

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"I was 7 years old and constantly pestering my parents every time the ice cream van came around, which was three or four times a day!! "

Yes they must've made a good living that year, lots of Fab lollies I bet, and raspberry Mivvi's

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

I was 5 and remember touching cars was a bad idea as they were so hot

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford


"I was 5 and living in Wales so it was probably raining

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I lived further west than you so it was probably hailstones

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

I had an amazing two weeks camping holiday in Wales with my then girl friend who six years later became my wife.

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"I was 5 and remember touching cars was a bad idea as they were so hot "

Oh gosh yes, hot, tinny 70's cars lol!!

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own


"I was 2 and i can’t remember "

This lol.

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


"I was 5 and living in Wales so it was probably raining

I lived further west than you so it was probably hailstones "

Yeah, welcome to Wales - Never forget the cagoule!

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

Recovering after a high speed crash on my Raleigh chopper.

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

I was 18 and was trying to keep a job, was not till the following year I kept jobs longer till recent times, I do think myself Its not been this bad since 76 a good Indication of that is is the grass is dryed up and no mowers out the lawns will be knackered before long, my runner beans are struggleing to produce a crop and only small pods, at 3:15 pm this afternoon It was 86f outdoors that itself is exceptional here, any motorists in their cars this heat must be hellish and PLEASE LOOK OUT for any pets that are in vehicles in this heat..

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford


"I was 5 and living in Wales so it was probably raining

I lived further west than you so it was probably hailstones

Yeah, welcome to Wales - Never forget the cagoule! "

I was 8 years old before I realised you could take them off

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I was coming up for 20 and working in a seafront cafe in Brighton in the college summer break. The evenings were long, the wine cold and the high jinx plentiful.

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

Sweet 17 and falling in love for the first time whilst dancing to 10cc.

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

I was too young. But I'm so glad this is a drier summer than '76. It can finally shut up the pompous twats who always say "ooh it's not as bad as 1976"

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By *ELLONS AND CREAMWoman
over a year ago

stourbridge area

Im working nights...... difficult trying to sleep during the day

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By *reemindCoolMan
over a year ago

between Barnsley and Wakefield

I was 21 then seams like yesterday

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By *ifty grades of shadyCouple
over a year ago

Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight


"I wasn't even a twinkle "
You've made up for it since

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By *iobhainWoman
over a year ago

Éire

The year I was born my Mam said it was an Indian Summer

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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east

I do remember using a magnifying glass to burn paper with the sun lol

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

Wasn’t alive for another 12 years!

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By *ids_NaughtyCouple
over a year ago

West Midlands

I struggle to remember what I did yesterday

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By *etLikeMan
over a year ago

most fundamental aspects


"Recovering after a high speed crash on my Raleigh chopper."

I hope you didn’t slide forwards onto the gearstick

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By *eliciousladyWoman
over a year ago

Sometimes U.K

Being in my teens, working the summer in a tourist resort and enjoying days on the beach.

We had hose pipe bans and standpipes!

Happy innocent times

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

I was 16 and had just left school. I well remember a fishing lake in the village i lived in, all the local youngsters used to go swimming there that summer. At one time when i did a huge Carp decided it fancied the big toe on my left foot and simply would not let go. I was limping for days lol.............needless to say, none of my mates have let me forget that to this day

It was a great summer of fun though, no fun having to work in the current heat though

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I was at school but it always seemed to be summer then.

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By *iker BullMan
over a year ago

leeds

I was living in Perth west Australia at the time,and Perth had the hottest summer on record

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

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

I was 11 and had chickenpox and mumps. It was hell.

The news was full of attempts to fry an egg on a car bonnet and melting tarmac. Phew What A Scorcher! the constant headline and advice to share baths.

It was still hot when I started secondary school in the September and we HAD to wear the blazer.

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

Cubs camp in the summer of 76 it was ace

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

The year before in 75 I worked on the parks dept where they had some beautiful greenhouse,s but they use shade one section of the glass with lime to generate more heat below to grow cucumbers I remember the temps one day which was 110f there was need to shade it in 76 thats for sure..

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By *uteness69Woman
over a year ago

Walthamstow

I was 3.

This thread makes me feel young.

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


"It's starting to look like the summer of '76 out there, the grass is all burnt up, the pubs will be running out of beer soon!!

Do you remember those endless summers back then - lying on the grass chillin' out with the cool people and listening to groovy music?

Or what were you up to?? "

Actually, as i remember, the pubs never ran out of beer then, they arn't now either. What they are running out of now is CO2. If like me you only drink real beer, it don't matter lol

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

I was sitting my O levels with no air con in the building. Hosepipe bans ,reservoirs drying up and stand pipes in the street. People were encouraged to share baths and showers

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By *appytochatMan
over a year ago

Deep in the New Forest

I was being conceived

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

I was on holiday on a campsite in Broadway in the Cotswolds near Evesham. I remember how glorious the weather was, swimming every day for hours, picking apples in the orchards and hoping it would last forever. Then when we go home it was standpipes and hosepipe bans so the feeling went away

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

First signs of Autumn now coming in here. The nights are drawing in, had to sweep the chimney today as now need the kitchen stove in the morning to take the chill off the air

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I was only 3 so can't really remember it... though I remember all my childhood summers as being hot and sunny. Water fights, paddling pools and playing in the street.

Nita

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By *lbert_shlossedMan
over a year ago

Manchester

I was mostly playing monopoly but I do remember taking my scalectrix into the garden and leaving it there for the summer hols.

Great days

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

I was 11, I remember the hosepipe band and standpipes. I also remember the tarmac melting. X

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

My mum was 14... So I wasn't doing much, knowing my mum, she was cursing the sun. #ginger

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant


"Recovering after a high speed crash on my Raleigh chopper.

I hope you didn’t slide forwards onto the gearstick "

Nope, speed wobble and over / through the handle bars I went

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

I was 6 and had chickenpox, Jason Camera had it too and we picked each others scabs and made them worse. All this 3 weeks before I was due to be a bridesmaid for my aunty. The wedding pictures are delightful... I was all spotty scars.

I remember having water bowsers in our street and going with my mum to fill buckets and pots with water to wash up and bath in and flush the loo, which we were only allowed to do if we had a poo, not just for a wee.

That summer felt like it lasted forever.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I was on holiday in the Isle of Wight, and I remember not being able to move for damned ladybirds

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By *ittleAcornMan
over a year ago

visiting the beach

I was 10, remember it well. One of our only family holidays.

A little cottage in the Highlands of Scotland somewhere. It was idyllic, till the midges found us!

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

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

I was experimenting with cats and swimming pools..

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By *aenMan
over a year ago

Here and There

I was in N Ireland, pretty sure it rained

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By *hubnwife_36dd_ukCouple
over a year ago

chester


"It's starting to look like the summer of '76 out there, the grass is all burnt up, the pubs will be running out of beer soon!!

Do you remember those endless summers back then - lying on the grass chillin' out with the cool people and listening to groovy music?

Or what were you up to?? "

In 76 we were camping in North Wales and complaining cos the camp site wasn't allowed to fill its swimming pool.

As for the grass going brown this year, we are near Chester, it has rained a fair bit in the last couple of days and the grass has grown (I've just cut it) and it is green.

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

In the summer of '76 we had 15 consecutive days of temperatures at 30 degrees or above, so the heatwave we are experiencing now doesn't compare.

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

I was 15 and going out with a Welsh guardsman called Steve Dakin from Caterham barracks.

It was the year of ladybirds, water shortages and beetle crushers.

Tarmac melted and was too hot to walk on in plimsoles.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

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


"In the summer of '76 we had 15 consecutive days of temperatures at 30 degrees or above, so the heatwave we are experiencing now doesn't compare."

Yet.

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


"It's starting to look like the summer of '76 out there, the grass is all burnt up, the pubs will be running out of beer soon!!

Do you remember those endless summers back then - lying on the grass chillin' out with the cool people and listening to groovy music?

Or what were you up to?? "

I remember the water trucks.

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

I was 11 and seem to remember 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' was played constantly on the radio throughout that summer. I was on guide camp and though I had a hat, don't think sun cream featured at all (how times have changed) so got a bit burnt as we were more or less permanently outside for a week. I think I remember great carpets of both flying ants *and* ladybirds across the pavement as well and being upset at stepping on them (the ladybirds not the ants) because there was no way to avoid them.

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By *loswingersCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester


"It's starting to look like the summer of '76 out there, the grass is all burnt up, the pubs will be running out of beer soon!!

Do you remember those endless summers back then - lying on the grass chillin' out with the cool people and listening to groovy music?

Or what were you up to?? "

I was 15 and had pretty much left school . Me and a couple of my mates had jobs on a building site labouring .

We spent the evenings getting pissed and generally doing what teenagers with a few quid would be doing .

The music was stuff like Diana Ross , The Manhattens , The Commodores , Candi Staton , Queen , Elton John and Kiki Dee - oh those were the days

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"Sweet 17 and falling in love for the first time whilst dancing to 10cc. "

Yes, that song is special for me too!

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

I was 10, I remember my mam tying the watering can to the washing line so we could stand under it for a cold shower and getting the old baby bath out so we could have turns sitting in it

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By *eordieslutWoman
over a year ago

Newcastle

I was 9 that year and I remember at summer lol

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"It's starting to look like the summer of '76 out there, the grass is all burnt up, the pubs will be running out of beer soon!!

Do you remember those endless summers back then - lying on the grass chillin' out with the cool people and listening to groovy music?

Or what were you up to??

Actually, as i remember, the pubs never ran out of beer then, they arn't now either. What they are running out of now is CO2. If like me you only drink real beer, it don't matter lol "

The big pub my boyfriend always drank in ran out of draught beer, I think a lot did, maybe only briefly in some areas but it absolutely did happen.

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"I was experimenting with cats and swimming pools.. "

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"I was experimenting with cats and swimming pools..

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Burying gerbils in a sandpit and betting on where they will come out is much more fun

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"In the summer of '76 we had 15 consecutive days of temperatures at 30 degrees or above, so the heatwave we are experiencing now doesn't compare."

Yeah but we've had repeated episodes of it lasting several days, I've done five festivals in searing heat this year!

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By *ids_NaughtyCouple
over a year ago

West Midlands

I spent it mainly naked, rolling around on my back - sucking on nipples and being so out of control I wet myself regularly.....I was not even quite yet 1.

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

I don't remember it. Too ickle!

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

I was 3 and running around my garden in Zimbabwe It was equally hot I’m sure

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

I remember my mum filling the bath on Sunday with an inch of water and having to share it with the family. As I was the youngest I got to go 1st

Frying eggs on tarmac sensation, roads melting and folks queuing up at water standpipes.

Oh those were the good ole days

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

I was 11 and about the only thing I can remember is the fields down the park etc being all cracked and watching the Montreal Olympics

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


"I was experimenting with cats and swimming pools..

Burying gerbils in a sandpit and betting on where they will come out is much more fun "

That’s my summer holiday sorted. You’ve saved the hamster from the turntable..

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

mum and dad packed us into an old converted bedford army truck and took us to a load of free festivals for the summer

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"mum and dad packed us into an old converted bedford army truck and took us to a load of free festivals for the summer"

Were you at the last Windsor Festival when the police raided it? I love looking at the old pics online, I'd love to find myself in one of them one day!

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"mum and dad packed us into an old converted bedford army truck and took us to a load of free festivals for the summer"

And forgot to say, good for them!!

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


"mum and dad packed us into an old converted bedford army truck and took us to a load of free festivals for the summer

Were you at the last Windsor Festival when the police raided it? I love looking at the old pics online, I'd love to find myself in one of them one day! "

i was, but i was very young ...

it was quite bizarre and surreal watching old style rozzers running into the crowd and bashing heads with truncheons ..... my childhood memory of it is a mixture of comedy and alarm all rolled up into a bundle of wierdness

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"I was experimenting with cats and swimming pools..

Burying gerbils in a sandpit and betting on where they will come out is much more fun

That’s my summer holiday sorted. You’ve saved the hamster from the turntable.. "

Ma cousin tried that one, it was a BIG hamster, or it might even have been a Guinea Pig

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"mum and dad packed us into an old converted bedford army truck and took us to a load of free festivals for the summer

Were you at the last Windsor Festival when the police raided it? I love looking at the old pics online, I'd love to find myself in one of them one day!

i was, but i was very young ...

it was quite bizarre and surreal watching old style rozzers running into the crowd and bashing heads with truncheons ..... my childhood memory of it is a mixture of comedy and alarm all rolled up into a bundle of wierdness"

Yes, exactly so! I can remember laughing at an 'undercover' policeman trying to blend in with the freaks dressed in loons and a 'Cool fresh milk' t-shirt with a short back and sides!!

My boyfriend was a few years older than me and god knows where my parents thought I was....!

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By *witch4Fun24Couple
over a year ago

Leicester

I was -14 and my Mother was only 11 so she was probably out climbing various mountains and looking in caves for nice looking bits of rock with my Gramps she has stopped complaining how summers were hotter when she was a child now though so there is one bonus

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By *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

Year I was born (in December).

Probably why I am the way I am, sat in there, baking away. Sent me a bit nuts!

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

I remember that I was working in a factory unit that was so blisteringly hot that we could barely breath - most of us just couldn't bear to even have much on and we worked toples....

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"I remember that I was working in a factory unit that was so blisteringly hot that we could barely breath - most of us just couldn't bear to even have much on and we worked toples....

"

I bet the fellas like that!!

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

I was roughly a 3 to 4 month old foetus at the time so can't possibly comment

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

My daughter was born in the April so for me, wonderful memories of a fantastic summer.

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"My daughter was born in the April so for me, wonderful memories of a fantastic summer."

Gosh you started breeding young!!

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

Was in basic training in the army, though it was suspended for a week and we went 12 on / 12 off beat g out heath fires in the aldershot area..

Was piggin hot..

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon


"My daughter was born in the April so for me, wonderful memories of a fantastic summer.

Gosh you started breeding young!! "

Very young and she’s still the love of my life.

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By *essiCouple
over a year ago

suffolk

I was 8 and remember the rhyme ‘ if it’s yellow let it mellow but if it’s brown flush it down’... ahh childhood

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


"I was 11, I remember the hosepipe band and standpipes."

Unusual name for a band, did they have many hits?

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

I'd only been conceived in the May...

Not such a good summer for my parents, my older brother died due to a (unknown at the time) heart condition, triggered by the heat. He was 5 years old.

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By *LovetobewatchedMan
over a year ago

edinburgh

I was 7 and remember walking through Mardale, the village flooded when they made Haweswater reservoir in the 30s. I probably preferred this to seeing anyone sunbathing topless that year. How times change!

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By *lorious hole bs16Man
over a year ago

Bristol

I was doing night shifts in a bakery...had the long hot days to sleep in..

Save water and bath with a friend was the slogan I remember and practiced!

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By *urvywelshCouple
over a year ago

Everywhere and nowhere baby

I was 15. Had a great summer, went to camp with the St John's Ambulance to Towyn. Best time ever.

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


"I was 7 years old and constantly pestering my parents every time the ice cream van came around, which was three or four times a day!!

Yes they must've made a good living that year, lots of Fab lollies I bet, and raspberry Mivvi's "

Yep, loads of Fabs, and those Mr Whippy ice cream wafer shell thingies with sprinkles and raspberry sauce. Cor, fancy one now!!

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"I was 8 and remember the rhyme ‘ if it’s yellow let it mellow but if it’s brown flush it down’... ahh childhood "

Haha eeeew!

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"Was in basic training in the army, though it was suspended for a week and we went 12 on / 12 off beat g out heath fires in the aldershot area..

Was piggin hot.. "

Yeah, lots of grass fires starting again now!

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

i was ten i can remember in southend my cousin offering me a drink not looking at the bottle was only a old bottle of comfort liquid he had refilled i felt sick for the rest of the weekend lol

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

I remember the family holiday we had in Clacton. Our aunt, uncle and cousins came with us.

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

My parent had moved to another hemisphere at the time -so it was most likely winter for me and probably a lot less summery where \I was

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

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


"I remember the family holiday we had in Clacton. Our aunt, uncle and cousins came with us.

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We went to Clacton on holiday that year.

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By *risky_Mare OP   Woman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

A comparison artcle:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44943672

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