FabGuys.com forum: 1976 UK Heatwave.

By *ldman OP Man
3 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

Who is old enough to remember the heatwave in 1976.

No water in the taps, as you had to go to a pipe in the street for every drop of water, including the toilet and for baths/showers etc?

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By *tewart62Man
3 weeks ago

Near Leeds

I remember it. I was 14 and thought it was fabulous.

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By *usicmanxxxMan
3 weeks ago

west lancs

I remember it well I was 18

Loved it

Like am loving it now

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By *ub guy 68Man
3 weeks ago

Keith

Aged 8 and seeing a forest fire in Snaresbrook, east london is one of a few memories of '76 i still recall.

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By *uvolderMan
3 weeks ago

chester

I do.I was 4 and my mum and dad thought it was fine for me to run around at rhyl beach in the nud and i spent the next month not being able to wear clothes.

I could only wear string vest kind of thing due to blistering and severe sun burn.

Thank you very much mum and dad..fkin idiots.I know people werent so health and safety conscious back then but jesus christ.

Probably has a lot to do with my dislike of sun and heat since then.

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By *rpheus69Man
3 weeks ago

Ebbw Vale

The top temperature reached during the 1976 heatwave was 35.5 in Cheltenham.

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By *tewart62Man
3 weeks ago

Near Leeds

"I remember it well I was 18

Loved it

Like am loving it now "

Same here. This is so good. I was naked then and I am now!!!!

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By *ralBiguy63Man
3 weeks ago

manchester

Remember it well, the year i left school

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By *altnsand60Man
3 weeks ago

Dover

The year I discovered the joy of cumming😋

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By *issy SiMan
3 weeks ago

Horsham

I spent August in Malawi in Africa and it was cooler over there

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By *ld 68yo experimentingMan
3 weeks ago

hete

1976 wasn't that hot. I was serving at RAF Masirah, an desert island off the coast of Oman.....now that was Hot

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By *W9DaddyMan
3 weeks ago

Richmond

1976 was my first summer living as a gay man.I was 20 and having lots of fun.

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By *xmareMan
3 weeks ago

Norwich

I was in the NW Highlands, scything bracken, among other things. Sweated a bit, but no biggie. Used to swim in the nearby burn to cool off. Idyllic.

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By *ildwestheroMan
3 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

Broke my leg in June that year so spent the heatwave with a very uncomfortable butt to ankle plaster cast. Should have begun my army training in July but it was postponed until October when the rains set it.

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By *te jacksonMan
3 weeks ago

Holywell

Practically lived on the Town Moor in Newcastle. A lot of fun. Dont know if its still active there.

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By *eekeeper1000Man
3 weeks ago

Richmond. North Yorkshire

Year I started working as a chef. Really hot in the kitchen. Pastry used to melt onto the stainless steel bench if you weren't very careful. Good times-if you weren't making sausages rolls!!

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By *evanianMan
3 weeks ago

Gogledd Ddwyrain Cymru

Was 18 in 1976, in college, I remember it vividly, the intervening years just seemed to zoom by in a flash, then we had a lifetime ahead of us, but just where did it all go?

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By *ldman OP Man
3 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

"Who is old enough to remember the heatwave in 1976.

No water in the taps, as you had to go to a pipe in the street for every drop of water, including the toilet and for baths/showers etc? "

I just love all your memories, and keep them coming, please!

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By (user no longer on site)
3 weeks ago

I do had just started my first job at a galvanising plant man was it hot

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By *aciallover5Man
3 weeks ago

wrexham

My first time at a gay beach. I was eighteen and heard about a beach near Rhyl. Walked along and rhen saw a naked man in the dunes he smiles and I followed him into the dunes I was soon naked and he fucked me. I loved it

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By *amplighter1Man
3 weeks ago

ryde

Started my first job in 1976 in a furniture factor.... bloody hot

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By *nglosaxon69Man
3 weeks ago

Norwich

I remember the swarms of ladybirds or as we call in Norfolk Bishybarnabees

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By *hitesageMan
3 weeks ago

withywood

I was born in 76, so I don't have much info on the heat wave, but I know that 2022 was hotter.

When it comes to today's heat wave, I understand the warnings, but sometimes the presenters overdramatise it.

I think most people have common sense to avoid going out in such high temperatures.

I've managed to find a perfect solution for this heat wave. I've put black curtains up, closed all the windows and closed the curtains in the living room. The temperature inside is at least 10 degrees lower than it is outside. And I have a fan blowing.

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By *inaCD66TV/TS
3 weeks ago

Wimbledon

Yep was 10 and all me cousins 24 of em were playing at me nans as No School.. in tooting. She was only one wiv a big enough garden for us lot.

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By *DC2000Man
3 weeks ago

Coningsby

I was working during the college break in Liberty's in London. Top floor of the old building on Marlborough Street, lugging bolts of material in furnishing fabrics, no air con, a few fans blowing the warm air around. In the lunch break we'd go to Marshal Street baths (does it still exist?) for a very welcome cool off. Great summer, good fun, great people, happy memories.

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By *hyguy62Man
3 weeks ago

Brentwood

Yeah I remember it well. I used to go fishing and when we went during that heatwave all the lakes were drying up and you could see all the fish with half their body above water.

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By *stronomiqueMan
3 weeks ago

Fylde

I was 13 and the heatwave went on for 8 weeks I think, and there was no rain anywhere.

Everything turned brown, brick in the bog cistern to save water, shower every 3 days.

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By *xLedZepxx2Man
3 weeks ago

Didcot

I 13 and at boarding school, due us having a split summer holiday (3 weeks in June and 3 weeks in September) I was actually at school for most of that summer.

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By *amplighter1Man
3 weeks ago

ryde

Shower you had a shower !!! You lucky sod

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By *ikeitrealMan
3 weeks ago

huercal overa SPAIN

I was 12, we'd all head down to barking park lido and try to look cool in Speedo's. There were a few fights there between different school groups. Oh great days.

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By *irexMan
3 weeks ago

Hertford

I was 16 and started working for the forestry service, lots of work in areas where you could take off your shirt but not trousers due to brambles, etc. - within a month friends were calling me the ‘chocolate _olly’, tanned top and white legs! Great times.

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By *exymnopMan
3 weeks ago

Southend-On-Sea

I was 15 and loved it. Out every day with my mates doing silly stuff. We climbed through a window at the local primary schools swimming pool. It was even hotter in there lol

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By *hitesageMan
3 weeks ago

withywood

Time in Bristol: 14:13. It started to get warm again. I sat in the living room in boxer shorts, and I am now beginning to feel the heat. It's currently 28C inside, bugger going outside.

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By *ittlefishMan
3 weeks ago

Im here

Remember it well, I was 9. in fact my mum still has some cine film reels of us during it

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By *enri du lacMan
3 weeks ago

Coventry

"I was working during the college break in Liberty's in London. Top floor of the old building on Marlborough Street, lugging bolts of material in furnishing fabrics, no air con, a few fans blowing the warm air around. In the lunch break we'd go to Marshal Street baths (does it still exist?) for a very welcome cool off. Great summer, good fun, great people, happy memories. "

You must have been a child prodigy if you were at college aged 12. And working in a shop too at such a tender age.

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By *lverston GuyMan
3 weeks ago

Bristol

I was 17 and had a part-time job in a horticultural nursery. The wholesale market stopped accepting tomatoes so we used to fill a van with stock and go and sell boxes of them to hotels, guest houses, corner shops etc in mid Wales. When we sold our stock, we had a well deserved swim in the sea (normally Aberystwyth) before returning home to Shrewsbury. We did it two/three days a week for about 1.5 months.

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By *aturistnudeMan
3 weeks ago

Harlech

My first nude beach visits oh what a fabulous time getting admired and seeing all the those cocks

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By *ldman OP Man
3 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

I love to hear the stories of how we coped with no water in all the taps in the house in the drought of 1976.

Keep the memories coming, BUT, stay within the rules of the site please.

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By *tewart62Man
3 weeks ago

Near Leeds

"I remember it well I was 18

Loved it

Like am loving it now "

Exactly the same. Already people are moaning about this spell of weather ffs!!!

It’s fabulous and long may it continue.

I was naked with a pal of mine in 1976 and loving it, and I am today!!

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By *ammy57TV/TS
3 weeks ago

Stevenage and Telford

As a kid in 76 I was 9 it was first year I spent almost the entire summer outside and swimming or walking . I dropped three stone that year, which is alot for a nine year old !!

Nothing like what we will get now.

This isn't just a bit of a heat wave. This is a change in weather which means society needs to change.

There is a reason much of the med has a siesta.(It's much cheaper for a society than air conditioning!)

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By *ldman OP Man
3 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

"As a kid in 76 I was 9 it was first year I spent almost the entire summer outside and swimming or walking . I dropped three stone that year, which is alot for a nine year old !!

Nothing like what we will get now.

This isn't just a bit of a heat wave. This is a change in weather which means society needs to change.

There is a reason much of the med has a siesta.(It's much cheaper for a society than air conditioning!) "

I can understand the siesta, but our houses keep the summer heat, but are freezing in winter, so it's difficult for many to have a siesta here.

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By *sal paulMan
3 weeks ago

Walton/frinton

Hopefully lasts till September be nice to have a summer again

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By *ral b..Man
3 weeks ago

1976.Ilkley swimming baths..

outdoor pool grass area..

subathing......nearby a radio started to play

" Summer breeze"-Isley bros..

Never forgot it.the guitar intro always takes me back there..

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By *teveSomersetMan
3 weeks ago

Woolavington

I was 12 living in Blackpool and thought nothing of swimming in the sea……..amazing I did not catch anything

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By *ldman OP Man
3 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

I was on the other side of the country on the east coast and also did the same.

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By *Fun123Man
3 weeks ago

North of Braintree

I was 13 and had a great summer. Key memories are our family holiday in Scotland and it rained every day! Southend pier catching fire and of course the heat, the drought and the first rainfall after the summer; people were smiling at the rain.

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By *itherMan
3 weeks ago

Leeds

I was about 24 and working in Denmark for the summer. Lovely weather and ankle deep in ladybirds.

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By *ildwestheroMan
3 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

One thing that I'm struggling to comprehend is that it was 50 years ago yet somethings seems like yesterday. I don't cope with heat too well and certainly didn't that summer. One of the more unpleasant things I remember, living in rural areas, was frequent grass and hedge fires. Often cause by someone throwing their cigarette end out of their car window. Firemen had their work cut out and not helped by the water shortage. Remember a farmer, who had lived on his farm since the 1920s telling me that a deep pond had dried up for the first time ever.

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By *astDevonGuyMan
3 weeks ago

Seaton

Great memories , was a fantastic summer and I was too young to worry about standpipes , dried up harvests and near empty reservoirs. Funny we didn’t do sun cream , or get constantly harassed to stay cool and stay hydrated , we didn’t have alerts or called it a crisis either . Fun times , oh and the plague’s of ladybirds were phenomenal!

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By *tewart62Man
3 weeks ago

Near Leeds

"Great memories , was a fantastic summer and I was too young to worry about standpipes , dried up harvests and near empty reservoirs. Funny we didn’t do sun cream , or get constantly harassed to stay cool and stay hydrated , we didn’t have alerts or called it a crisis either . Fun times , oh and the plague’s of ladybirds were phenomenal!"

And we managed to keep breathing without anyone reminding us. We were amazing!!

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By *opcock58Man
3 weeks ago

Helston

Was 17 and lived on a farm back then. Spent many hours walking cattle to and from a steam at the bottom of the lower fields for Water to drink. My father opened up an old well that had been idle since mains water had arrived,so again spent many hours collecting water for other animals and household use from that. Otherwise it was great,just get up and through on a tee shirt and not worry about the weather.funniest thing was after a long night in the pub and all a little worse for wear a friend decided to do an Indian rain dance around the village square, got up the next morning and it was pussing down!

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By *illybeachboyMan
3 weeks ago

Guernsey

That was a heatwave it went on for weeks.

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By *ll foxMan
3 weeks ago

WORKSOP

Aged 11 at the time!

Remember it well

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By *lverston GuyMan
3 weeks ago

Bristol

And we managed to keep breathing without anyone reminding us. We were amazing!!

It’s a Nanny State now - then we just got on with it!

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By *mma_EvansTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Preston

You must have been a child prodigy if you were at college aged 12. And working in a shop too at such a tender age."

It is threads like this that people forget that they have lied about their age on their profile

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By *jlincsMan
3 weeks ago

kings Lynn

People used to say to me it must be wonderful on a motorcycle in this. It wasnt ,all that heat and humidity (near the coast) at 55mph all the time was 'orrible!

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By *uteCub86Man
3 weeks ago

Swindon

Rose tinted glasses lol xx

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Bedford

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Bedford

Yes indeed going out wearing three things and two of them were shoes xx

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By *uck my bumMan
3 weeks ago

walsall

Born the year after

And can imagine

It would have been hideous

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By *arlos 0511Man
3 weeks ago

Manchester

Wasn't 76 the ladybird infestation as Well? I remember people brushing them off cars with brooms

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By *uck my bumMan
3 weeks ago

walsall

2026 and

Working

Hour

Shift

lol hideous seriously

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By *ollyMan
3 weeks ago

Downham market

I was 20, which just seemed to get on with life.

I remember being on holiday in Cornwall with mates.

I got into a nasty fight with one of them. But that was life then, you fought back.

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By *ilke500Man
3 weeks ago

edinburgh

Cut off denims adidas T-shirts swimming in the local reservoir. Great times. Was like summer was never gonna end and so much life in front of us.

Where did all the years go lol

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By *evanianMan
3 weeks ago

Gogledd Ddwyrain Cymru

"Cut off denims adidas T-shirts swimming in the local reservoir. Great times. Was like summer was never gonna end and so much life in front of us.

Where did all the years go lol "

My thoughts exactly! 😊👍🏻

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By *unglincolnimpMan
3 weeks ago

Lincoln

My mate has just been on about it and it’s exactly 50 years to the day that it started.

He said it always gets brought up cos it’s was just baking hot day after day there’s not been one like it since

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By *iBobOxonMan
3 weeks ago

Thame/Aylesbury

"I love to hear the stories of how we coped with no water in all the taps in the house in the drought of 1976.

Keep the memories coming, BUT, stay within the rules of the site please. "

I was 13 in Berkshire in ‘76, and our taps didn’t get turned off at all.

I remember the drought very well, and the local outdoor pool that we used all through our school summer holidays.

Seeing girls your own age in bikinis was rather wonderful.

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By *ldman OP Man
3 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

Any more memories of 1976 heatwave?

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By *hilmeMan
3 weeks ago

Bournemouth

I missed it all as I was travelling in Southern climates Africa and far east great times

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By *ockFunUpmMan
3 weeks ago

Upminster

I wasn't quite born yet, but my mother never fails to remind me of it as I was born in July 76 and she continually tells me how awful it was being at full term during the heatwave, like it was my fault lol

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By *igh Peak 1971Man
3 weeks ago

Buxton

I remember getting swarmed by Ladybirds while on holiday in Wales. I was apparently covered head to toe in the buggers.

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By *hropmMan
3 weeks ago

some where

I remember it very well I was 16 just left school my first job was working in Green houses my god it was so hot I remember it being 110% inside them we could only work 20mins at a time then told to have a break the summer seemed to go on for ages

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By *ustPeekinMan
3 weeks ago

Alresford

I remember it well. Our school made us bring a Tupperware beaker of water to school, and if you finished it, that was your lot. I remember the dinner lady refusing me water because I’d finished mine 🤣. Imagine that happening today!

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By *ldman OP Man
3 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

Thanks to all that responds with your memories.

Please keep them coming!

Also the electricity power cuts of the 1970s too.

Thanks.

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By *hropmMan
3 weeks ago

some where

"I remember it well. Our school made us bring a Tupperware beaker of water to school, and if you finished it, that was your lot. I remember the dinner lady refusing me water because I’d finished mine 🤣. Imagine that happening today!"

The school would be closed today lol

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By *KBottom25Man
3 weeks ago

London

Absolutely roasting.

Realised how good sleeping naked was

The year of #1s with

Dancing queen

Mamma mia

Don't go breaking my heart

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By *lough97Man
3 weeks ago

Slough

I remember it. I was 15.

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By *ibeariusMan
3 weeks ago

Greenock

1 was 1 so thankfully no

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By *elfordsubMan
3 weeks ago

Telford

When I, hopefully, get a fair bit older, everytime there is a heatwave (though the world will likely be an firey hellscape everyday by then) I'll be able to tell the youngsters of that time about how the old people of today would mention the 1976 heatwave, every single day that the temperature was over 30 degrees 😄

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By *urvMan
3 weeks ago

christchurch Dorset

They did close my junior school as we were surrounded by grass and they will row it in case it caught fire .

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By *AXGUY2025Man
3 weeks ago

Cheshire

Yes, but the '76 heatwave was day after day - not just a few isolated days. And of course, the sun was good for you then - you hadn't really caught the sun until your skin started peeling!

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By *inkybi99Man
3 weeks ago

Edinburgh

I remember maybe 10 years earlier picking soft tar off the pavement and getting whacked. Hands were all black

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By *ubtitsMan
3 weeks ago

hyde

"When I, hopefully, get a fair bit older, everytime there is a heatwave (though the world will likely be an firey hellscape everyday by then) I'll be able to tell the youngsters of that time about how the old people of today would mention the 1976 heatwave, every single day that the temperature was over 30 degrees 😄"
everyday wasn't over 30 degrees??

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By *gm111Man
3 weeks ago

Bury St Edmunds

It went on for ages … my mother owned a newsagents shop.. there was a queue one morning when we had a delivery on corona soft drinks! Cherry ade and limeade didn’t even make it onto the shelves .. I was 9 at the time and can remember people desperate to buy ices and cold drinks … bottled water wasn’t a thing back in those days!

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By *gm111Man
3 weeks ago

Bury St Edmunds

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By *elfordsubMan
3 weeks ago

Telford

I meant that every day the temperate went over 30 degrees in the years after 1976 older people would mention 1976...

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By *arti G xTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Chandlers Ford

I remember it was 9

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By *ustOneBearMan
3 weeks ago

Neath

Lived in Southsea about 10 mins walk to the beach. So spent all summer on the beach. Mum said she hardly saw me that summer. I liked walking in the Rock Gardens in the early evening.

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By *IPMANMan
3 weeks ago

West London

In 1976 heatwave I lived and worked in Central London

It was sheer hell on the tubes, people fainting everywhere. And even back then , Senior Management mystically worked from home, but we proles were expected to be in the Office 9-5

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By *ldman OP Man
3 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

"In 1976 heatwave I lived and worked in Central London

It was sheer hell on the tubes, people fainting everywhere. And even back then , Senior Management mystically worked from home, but we proles were expected to be in the Office 9-5 "

I had similar, but the other weather.

It was the year that the country almost ground to a standstill, due to heavy snow!

The manager sent the office girls home, as the snow was heavy and causing problems for car drivers, but we warehouse staff were expected to turn up AND do a 12 hour overnight shift, so our cars must have been snow ploughs or something special!

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By *ildwestheroMan
3 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

"I wasn't quite born yet, but my mother never fails to remind me of it as I was born in July 76 and she continually tells me how awful it was being at full term during the heatwave, like it was my fault lol"

A friend was pregnant at the time and her son was born late August. She really suffered during the heat. Amazed to think that 'little boy' will be 50 in a couple of months.

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By *ike2suckyMan
3 weeks ago

Cottered

I remember 1976 but not because of the heat. End of my first marriage, age 28.

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By *opcock58Man
3 weeks ago

Helston

Perhaps some of the younger members may not realise. The 76 heatwave/drout lasted for 13 weeks! Not 5 days. That's three months of nothing but blue sky's and temperatures similar to now for a lot of the period. Just think about that next time your moaning about how hot it is.

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By *onghMan
3 weeks ago

Cardiff

17 at the end of first year of 6th Form. Seemed to go on forever - the heatwave, not 6th Form!

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By *noncumdump1969Man
3 weeks ago

Hersham/molesey

I remember it just lol

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By *ohnnyangerMan
3 weeks ago

"My mate has just been on about it and it’s exactly 50 years to the day that it started.

He said it always gets brought up cos it’s was just baking hot day after day there’s not been one like it since

I mean quite literally 2025 was hotter and probably this year will be too lol

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By *opcock58Man
3 weeks ago

Helston

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By *opcock58Man
3 weeks ago

Helston

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By *ountainMan
3 weeks ago

ipswich

"My mate has just been on about it and it’s exactly 50 years to the day that it started.

He said it always gets brought up cos it’s was just baking hot day after day there’s not been one like it since

I mean quite literally 2025 was hotter and probably this year will be too lol"

It was the length of it that was thing.

On and on and on and on.

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By *rancd2TV/TS
3 weeks ago

Wolverhampton

I was 10, it went on for weeks and weeks, not just a couple of days.

Spent most days with my mates swimming and jumping in the cut to keep cool cos we couldn’t afford the local baths.

Went on my first ever holiday to wales, I thought it was a proper foreign country lol

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By *airFetishMan
3 weeks ago

Maldon

"I remember the swarms of ladybirds or as we call in Norfolk Bishybarnabees"

I was a waiter at the Kit-Kat in New Hunstanton that year and our first job on most days was to get dustpans and brushes and sweep the piles of ladybirds off the window ledges!

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By *airFetishMan
3 weeks ago

Maldon

"My mate has just been on about it and it’s exactly 50 years to the day that it started.

He said it always gets brought up cos it’s was just baking hot day after day there’s not been one like it since

I mean quite literally 2025 was hotter and probably this year will be too lol"

The duration of the heat in ‘76 was remarkable and the high temp record of 35 stood for decades. It’s been smashed 3 times since 2003 though …

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By *ammy57TV/TS
3 weeks ago

Stevenage and Telford

"As a kid in 76 I was 9 it was first year I spent almost the entire summer outside and swimming or walking . I dropped three stone that year, which is alot for a nine year old !!

Nothing like what we will get now.

This isn't just a bit of a heat wave. This is a change in weather which means society needs to change.

There is a reason much of the med has a siesta.(It's much cheaper for a society than air conditioning!)

I can understand the siesta, but our houses keep the summer heat, but are freezing in winter, so it's difficult for many to have a siesta here. "

There are things we can do.

Passive cooling using chimney.

Or cross flow from windows.

A trellis outside the building 5 inches off the wall with thick greenery works amazingly well yo drop heat by several degrees in summer and insulate walls in winter.

Or , god for bid!, the govt might tell their building lobby to piss off and actually lay out some proper governance that's not designed to maximise profits and justify poor building design and unimaginative materials ???

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By *ammy57TV/TS
3 weeks ago

Stevenage and Telford

"....

Went on my first ever holiday to wales, I thought it was a proper foreign country lol"

Em.... It, ... Is?

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By *ohnnyangerMan
3 weeks ago

"My mate has just been on about it and it’s exactly 50 years to the day that it started.

He said it always gets brought up cos it’s was just baking hot day after day there’s not been one like it since

I mean quite literally 2025 was hotter and probably this year will be too lol

The duration of the heat in ‘76 was remarkable and the high temp record of 35 stood for decades. It’s been smashed 3 times since 2003 though …"

Its true but the temperatures just weren't that high. The Met Office has issued a new projection of what a heatwave like that of the 1976 summer could look like in the 2050s. Under this modelling, the UK could see a 14-day heatwave event with temperatures of over 40C for nine consecutive days. Temperatures could peak at 45C in England, 38C in Scotland, 41C in Wales and 30C in Northern Ireland. That future is much closer to now than 76.

I'll admit I'm mostly just bored of hearing about 76 - it's all people ever talk about. 6th hottest summer in history.

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By *ohnnyangerMan
3 weeks ago

Its been the summer of 76 and the winter of 63 all my life, like those are the absolute peaks of temperatures

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By *ronmant16Man
3 weeks ago

Sheffield

I was 6 years old, I remember it but only because of the amount of fire engines, all the moorland above the farm where they lived was alight, other than that I was oblivious and probably running around with fuck all on kids didi in those days

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By *ishop666Man
3 weeks ago

ls19

I remember that stand pipes at end of street I was wa at grammar school we could take our ties off

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By *essa_MTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Red Rose County

Was 16 in 1976. Just starting work for a fruit and vegetable importers and distributor.

Wonderful summer. I really enjoyed it taking the first steps into adulthood discovering girls and boys. Finding out girls weren't an alien species.

The summer of 1974 was also a great one but not as long or as hot

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By *olyjamorousMan
3 weeks ago

Wrexham

Remember it well. Was born in May '76 🤣

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By *usan 749ukTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Bangor

Every evening was spent at the beach with my friends. Great memories

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By *ishop666Man
3 weeks ago

ls19

Just played out till the moment my mum shouted

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By *lueshirt1Man
3 weeks ago

Berwick upon Tweed/East lothian/Edinburgh

Never any shortage of water in Scotland. Water bills covered by the council tax, so use as much as you want. Publically owned, no shareholders. Amazing service.

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By *hortmMan
3 weeks ago

worthing

I remember it well. I was 20y old and it was the one and only time i was unemployed... needless to say i had a fantastic tan that year.

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By *ral b..Man
3 weeks ago

Was 45 days without rain...

And you won't believe this..

.in that 45 day period we only had 1... yes 1.. Prime Minister..

(J.Callaghan labour)...

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By *ildwestheroMan
3 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

"Was 45 days without rain...

And you won't believe this..

.in that 45 day period we only had 1... yes 1.. Prime Minister..

(J.Callaghan labour)...

I didn't think it lasted the 3 months so many people now claim. Seem to remember June was a bit dull with rain.

And yes Sunny Jim Callaghan did become prime minister in the Spring of that year and amazingly lasted 3 years until a vote of no confidence compelled him to call a general election which he lost.

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By *hong loverTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Wilton near Malton

I remember almost fainting in the heat xx

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By *ndy61hMan
3 weeks ago

Plymouth

I had not long before got back from a deployment in the Caribbean, ended up working on a Survey ship in the English channel off Brighton. Great few weeks.

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By *eam Bi MatureMan
3 weeks ago

Leamington

I was thirteen and sunburnt my forearms really badly so had to wear bandages for what seemed like ages

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By *wadbisexualMan
3 weeks ago

Castle Gresley

I was there, my most vivid memories are how the whole country seemed to turn brown & i remember the insects

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By *ldman OP Man
3 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

I remember queuing up for water, with buckets, pots and pans, as there was no water in our taps, due to the drought.

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By *ryan2000Man
3 weeks ago

London colney

Remember it well age 8 then

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