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over a year ago
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"Just listen to Chris Evens show and they were talking about the year 1976 and what peole remember about it what so what do you remember?"
nothing I was not even one yet.. 
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I remember getting my first guitar and dreaming about becoming a rock-god,,,, sigh!!!!!!
I also remember hanging out in the beach cafe' where some of the most repeatedly played tracks included :-
Thin Lizzy ….” The Boys are Back in Town”…. (With the even better B-side “Emerald”)
Four Seasons “December 63”
Wild Cherry “ Play that Funky Music”
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Queen
“Misty Blue” Dorothy Moore
“Dream-On” Aerosmith
Sutherland Brothers and Quiver – “Arms of Mary”
Sigh!!!!!
Oh and I remember it was cool for guys to wear cut-off denim shorts too ......   |
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over a year ago
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"Plagues of ladybirds!!"
remember that cos a little girl where i lived was crying cos she wanted some so her mum collected a few put them in her hand and she ate them. |
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Starting secondary school, long hot summer and not going back to school until october because of the water shortage.
Gipsy skirts with lace petticoats hanging about an inch below, ankle socks and white plimsols fancying a guy called terry with bright ginger hair and actually kissing him up the little park |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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not a lot as i was 5
although i do remember walking across the middle our ressie as it had dried up practically
and if i'm not mistaken we skated on that ressie in the winter too as it had seriously frozen over but was still very shallow as there had not been an awful lot of rain |
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over a year ago
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It was sooo hot, the mountain above Blaenavon caught fire and took weeks for it to finally stop burning.
The heavens opened on the Saturday of August bank holiday just as the floats in the local carnival arrived at Pontypool park
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riding around on me bike in just me swims that summer... burning my feet on the pavement when I stopped and not being able to eat ice creams quick enough before they melted!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Coming out of my mummy's foof and greeting this big wide world. Not that I remember it, and I really don't want to picture it, but I know that's what happened lol. |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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I remember driving around for my job and using good old AM CB's for relaying messages to Base Stations about fires that had started. Those messages being passed to the Fire Brigade either by telephone or .. (Shh.. CB's in firemens cars!)
Bohemian Rhapsody definately being played on the radio, when Radio One was a music station and not talk radio!
Making an effective gun from an old 177 air rifle and nail gun pellets.. Now that is a story!
Being 18 and madly in love with my soon to be wife.. Thinking it would last forever... And so far so good!
Using the Gadebridge Park in Hemel Hempstead as a meeting point for us all and having impromtu parties with our mates in the sunshine.
Just having a great time, really  |
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"I remember driving around for my job and using good old AM CB's for relaying messages to Base Stations about fires that had started. Those messages being passed to the Fire Brigade either by telephone or .. (Shh.. CB's in firemens cars!)
Bohemian Rhapsody definately being played on the radio, when Radio One was a music station and not talk radio!
Making an effective gun from an old 177 air rifle and nail gun pellets.. Now that is a story!
Being 18 and madly in love with my soon to be wife.. Thinking it would last forever... And so far so good!
Using the Gadebridge Park in Hemel Hempstead as a meeting point for us all and having impromtu parties with our mates in the sunshine.
Just having a great time, really "
Awwwwwwwwwwww I love this. |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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Nearly forgot.. Being much younger and a lot more handsome! Shame we have to lose it all...
Innuendo will say the same about her, but she was well cute and sexy then, Now she is even better with age..  |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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"Awwwwwwwwwwww I love this. "
In summer time, The'll be a "love in" there.. Who needed San Francisco, when we had it all here?
Off to get me beads and afghan coat out of the cupboard.. Peace and free love, man xxxx |
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It was the year I left secondary school. I spent the summer working at Knowsley Safari Park for the grand wage of £2.50 per day and got my first full-time job in the September at a local tailoring factory (was only a stop gap 'till I joined the WRAF the following year).
20 No6 cigarettes cost 31p. School dinners were 60 pence for the week (by then I didn't have them...used the 60 pence towards buying my cigs, unbeknownst to my mother, lol). It was possible to go to the pub and have 3 half-pints of lager, 10 cigs and still have change from a pound note. |
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By *eam OP Couple
over a year ago
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"It was the year I left secondary school. I spent the summer working at Knowsley Safari Park for the grand wage of £2.50 per day and got my first full-time job in the September at a local tailoring factory (was only a stop gap 'till I joined the WRAF the following year).
20 No6 cigarettes cost 31p. School dinners were 60 pence for the week (by then I didn't have them...used the 60 pence towards buying my cigs, unbeknownst to my mother, lol). It was possible to go to the pub and have 3 half-pints of lager, 10 cigs and still have change from a pound note."
Same I remember no6 cigs also sovereign cigs also going to the local fairs and could make me sick by going on all the rides for just less than a pound |
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I was 14 and remembering sunbathing on the school field during my dinner hour. I also remember going to an outdoor swimming pool one day and the swarm of lady birds that were about. |
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I was 14 and living on the coast was bliss in 76. I remember we were sent home every time the thermometer hit 90 deg F in the L- block classrooms - which usually happened around 1pm every day. Then it was across the road and onto the beach. Happy times! |
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"It was the year I left secondary school. I spent the summer working at Knowsley Safari Park for the grand wage of £2.50 per day and got my first full-time job in the September at a local tailoring factory (was only a stop gap 'till I joined the WRAF the following year).
20 No6 cigarettes cost 31p. School dinners were 60 pence for the week (by then I didn't have them...used the 60 pence towards buying my cigs, unbeknownst to my mother, lol). It was possible to go to the pub and have 3 half-pints of lager, 10 cigs and still have change from a pound note.
Same I remember no6 cigs also sovereign cigs also going to the local fairs and could make me sick by going on all the rides for just less than a pound "
ha ha .. no6.. used to save the coupons lol.
and green shield stamps |
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"The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was won by Brotherhood of Man, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me."
And it stayed at No.1 for six painful weeks lol
The song scored the maximum 12pts from 7 countries and amassed the highest score ever for a winning Eurovision song, but surprisingly only collected 3pts from the Republic of Ireland.  |
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By *eam OP Couple
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"The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was won by Brotherhood of Man, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.
And it stayed at No.1 for six painful weeks lol
The song scored the maximum 12pts from 7 countries and amassed the highest score ever for a winning Eurovision song, but surprisingly only collected 3pts from the Republic of Ireland. "
Wow you know so much!! Do you get out much? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was won by Brotherhood of Man, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.
And it stayed at No.1 for six painful weeks lol
The song scored the maximum 12pts from 7 countries and amassed the highest score ever for a winning Eurovision song, but surprisingly only collected 3pts from the Republic of Ireland.
Wow you know so much!! Do you get out much? "
Wiki Wiki Wiki |
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By *adchickCouple
over a year ago
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Stand pipes at the end of the streets for fresh water.
Bath only on a Friday night with a plimsol line 3inches high around it and having to share the bath water.
Not going back to school until end of October because of the water shortage.
Wading though 3 foot of snow early December, just to get to school.
Playing in the local park from 8am til 8pm and only going home because we were hungry.
Drinking pop all the time from the Alpine lorry because water was in such short supply that we couln't have juice.
An ice cream cone with a flake (a 99) from the ice cream van costing 10p
etc.... |
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I was 19 and remember going away on hols with some mates from work. We went to Ilfracombe and Woolacombe in North Devon.
I had a 2 week fling with a girl called Denise from Isle Of Sheppey.
Wonder what she's doing now? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The summer of a generation
The sun, falling in love
When life was so simple
Of walks and talks
When the world as so alive
Flares platforms and penny rounds
The sun shone in April
Lasted until the winter winds blew her away
We had those days of 76
I do think of them with a smile! |
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I'm sure I seen a photo of the Thames drying up somewhere?