Photos from '76

[Rhiannon]

The thing that's got me is that they aren't obviously from long ago, except for the one where the women wait by the standpipe. Even the chap washing his car - my favourite image, what a guy! - could be contemporary, at a pinch, due to the trend for all things vintage.

The next thought that went through my head was, my god, the sunburn, but that's just the same now too.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2018/jul/25/knotted-hankies-hammocks-heatwave-1976-in-pictures

[Udayana]

Good stuff. 1976 - personally, one of my best and worst years

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/henge-history-2.html
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[Enki]

I remember it well. I was a teacher in those days, and we had to stop the pupils playing on the (pure white) school field because the cracks were so wide that we didn't want a child breaking an ankle or a leg!

[Shaker]

I used to run outside and play in the garden with not a stitch on.

Or at least I did until my mum told me to stop it, as I was 18 at the time.

[Roses]

I used to run outside and play in the garden with not a stitch on.

Or at least I did until my mum told me to stop it, as I was 18 at the time.

Now that is the stuff of nightmares.

[ippy]

Now that is the stuff of nightmares.

Now you never know L R, nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse nudge nudge.

Regards ippy

[Maeght]

I suffered from prickly heat and spent my family holiday sat in the shade whilst others basked in the sun. Probably a good thing in hindsight.

[Roses]

Our youngest girl was born in January 76. I was very busy coping with three young children and a sterilisation in the summer, when I decided I didn't wish to actually give birth to anymore children. I didn't have much time to concentrate on the hot weather.

[Rhiannon]

I suffered from prickly heat and spent my family holiday sat in the shade whilst others basked in the sun. Probably a good thing in hindsight.

Only ever had that once and boy, is it grim. My mum used calamine to calm it but I now know I should have had antihistamines.

[Rhiannon]

And for those of us who love London...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2018/jul/27/londons-long-hot-summer--in-pictures

[Roses]

And for those of us who love London...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2018/jul/27/londons-long-hot-summer--in-pictures

Not a place I have ever liked, my husband, a Londoner, couldn't get away from it fast enough.

[Rhiannon]

Not a place I have ever liked, my husband, a Londoner, couldn't get away from it fast enough.

 

[Maeght]

Not a place I have ever liked,.....

Me neither.

[Rhiannon]

Which is why I opened my post with 'For those of us who love London...'

I did kind of make it clear who the target audience was there.

[Maeght]

Which is why I opened my post with 'For those of us who love London...'

I did kind of make it clear who the target audience was there.

You did, but that doesn't mean people can't comment generally does it?

[Rhiannon]

You did, but that doesn't mean people can't comment generally does it?

No, but I wonder why when it is simply to be negative.

[Maeght]

No, but I wonder why when it is simply to be negative.

Do you have a particular association with London?

[Robbie]

And for those of us who love London...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2018/jul/27/londons-long-hot-summer--in-pictures

I love London and love those pictures.

[Rhiannon]

Do you have a particular association with London?

Yes, I was born there and grew up there.

[Rhiannon]

I love London and love those pictures.

Yes, love the vibrancy of it, and them.

[Maeght]

Yes, I was born there and grew up there.

Ah right. I don't like cities in general so its nit just London - if that makes it any better 

[Rhiannon]

Ah right. I don't like cities in general so its nit just London - if that makes it any better 

Well I live in the middle of nowhere now, so most towns and even large villages are too much for me. But London is special, even if I only pay it fleeting visits these days. And I have many great memories.

[Shaker]

Do you have a particular association with London?

Though a solidly cowshit country boy, raised amidst the grass,  hedges and sheepshit of Leicestershire, I spent three years of my life in the slog and smog of Hertfordshire - Stevenage, to be precise - where the Smoke was within easy access. Golders Green was the first call - the falafel sandwiches at the Taboon cafe (no idea if it still exists, but it should) were to die for and train rides to the then massive HMV in Oxford Street were a thing.

I quite like being a long way from the capital as it's not my natural habitat, but I'm just saying.

[Sriram]

And for those of us who love London...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2018/jul/27/londons-long-hot-summer--in-pictures

Funny how the photos could be of any city in the world!  Special characteristics are disappearing fast aren't they?!

[Robbie]

I remember being away in Devon (Torquay I think) with parents in summer of 1976 having just done O levels. Was bitten to bits and had prickly heat which was dreadful. Tho' my sister tells me it wasn't 76 & I must have got it mixed up with another year (which I do) but I'm sure it was then. Even ladybirds bit me. I had sore eyes and hay fever & my mum bought me antihistamines which didn't help much, cool baths and showers did. Horrible. I wasn't unwell the rest of the summer tho', was only when away on holiday that I felt bad.