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By *risky_Mare OP Woman
over a year ago
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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 *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
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"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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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 *risky_Mare OP Woman
over a year ago
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"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 *risky_Mare OP Woman
over a year ago
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"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
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"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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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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"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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 *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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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"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
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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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
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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 *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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"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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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"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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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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"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
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"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
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"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"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 *risky_Mare OP Woman
over a year ago
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"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 (user no longer on site)
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"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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"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
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"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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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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
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"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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I bet the fellas like that!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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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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 (user no longer on site)
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"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
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"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
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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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