Britain's Hottest Heatwave Ever - 1976

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• LA

  @lauralott2741 · 3 months ago

  I was 13 in 1976. It was a glorious summer, and I still remember it. The heat and sun made me feel so happy. Every summer after that I kept hoping it would be the same as the summer of 1976 but it never was! 😢

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• PE

  @petercharnley7396 · 3 months ago (edited)

  I was 15 years old in 1976. I certainly remember the extreme heat, and I remember the plague of ladybirds. But I don't recall them biting. I look back on them as being harmless. A nuisance by their mass presence, but that was as far as it went, where I lived in the NW of England. I also remember the previous year of 1975 being very hot as well. Happy days.

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• DA

  @davidkennedy8929 · 3 months ago

  By 1976 most houses did NOT have central heating.

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• PE

  @petercharnley7396 · 3 months ago

  I remember the moment when it came to an end. I was watching live Test Match cricket, towards the end of England's summer season, in September, and suddenly the whole crowd started to cheer, with irony, as the spots of rain started to fall. It was very funny.

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• WM

  @wmr9019 · 3 months ago (edited)

  I went to my brother's passing out parade at Winchester in  3RGJ June 76 , it was so hot we went to the cathedral to cool off , swarms of ladybirds and greenfly, abba , horse riding, happy days all gone 😢 my beautiful England now destroyed 😢😢😢. RIP BROTHER ❤

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• MA

  @markperry2066 · 3 months ago

  I was 10 in 1976 and living in London,  I can remember the Tarmac sticking to my Woolworths Plimsolls & a lady walking her daughter to school with a Lioncub on a leash! We just got on with it. Great fun drawing water from standpipes and none of this doom and gloom danger to life messages!! Things were different then & a damn lot better than they are now! Happy memories indeed ❤

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• PL

  @plonchyvideos7456 · 3 months ago

  I didn't know Robert Redford ever had a UK office job.

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• MA

  @mattus1gig · 3 months ago

  Oh my days, can you imagine the chaos having standpipes today!!!

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• PA

  @Paul-p5g9k · 3 months ago

  Now you wouldn't get the BBC showing this.. according to them temperatures are a new thing😂😂😂😂😂

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• WA

  @Warwick-q6k · 3 months ago

  In 76 I was 22 and worked outside all the time. Was lovely getting up every morning for months and looking out to sunshine instead of the usual rain. Happy times.

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• OS

  @ossian11 · 3 months ago

  1975 was a hot summer too.

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• AN

  @AnnetteMurphyger · 3 months ago

  Exactly 50 years ago

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