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The Long Hot Summer circa '76

Badger
Badger Posts: 4,842
edited October 2007 in Not Sports Related
Just seen the prog on itv about the storm in '87 and remembered the scorcher we had in '76 that was unbearable.
Anyone else remember?
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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,896
    only from the 29th May onwards........:-)
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    You're not old enough.....:-)
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Yes remember it very well. Long summer holiday playing cricket in Avery Hill Park. Went to Lords on the Saturday V West Indies - It pissed down!
    Many forget that '75 was a very long hot one too. Also forgotten is that there was another storm almost a year to the day in 88. Not quite as ferocious but this one was where Gordon Kaye had his accident.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    I was 10 i remember being on holiday in Hampshire,New Milton i think and it was bloody hot.
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,338
    The Oval though was scorchio ... specially Sir Viv
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,125
    It was the first year of my working life. Wall to wall sunshine from June until September. It was good year to be working in London :0 D
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,873
    Twas a good year to be born
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    I went on a canal boating holiday
    oh dear!!!!

    "Sorry sir the canal's closed above here due to lack of water." The boatyard advised

    "Never mind, we don't care we were planning to go the other way"

    "There are severe lock restrictions to conserve water". Came the reply

    "We'll chance it".

    It was a brilliant holiday. The weather was great. The water levels were incredibly low but it was our first canal boating holiday and as a family we just fell in love with it.

    We went again the following year to the same area (north of Oxford on the Oxford Canal) when nature, as it often does, had made up for the lack of water the previous year by making it rain virtually non-stop from February onwards. The area surrounding the canal was flooded and it p*ssed down all week.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,230
    I spent 2 weeks in Cornwall during the 76 heatwave - hanging ten etc. Absolute heaven! As for the two hurricanes in 87 and 88 I slept through both of them.
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    I was 3 so no

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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,756
    Remember jumping on a 96 every day to go to Dansom Park Lido, had a lorry tyre inner tube and had great fun.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,125
    edited October 2007
    [cite]Posted By: guinnessaddick[/cite]Remember jumping on a 96 every day to go to Dansom Park Lido, had a lorry tyre inner tube and had great fun.

    Those were the days when Health and Safety regulations didn't rule our lives. You could do a bomb off the top board at the likes of Danson or Charlton Lido and if someone just happened to be underneath at that point, that was their fault.
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    [cite]Posted By: Valley_McMoist[/cite][quoteThose were the days when Health and Safety regulations didn't rule our lives. You could do a bomb off the top board at the likes of Danson or Charlton Lido and if someone just happened to be underneath at that point, that was there fault, when they drowned.

    A smidge harsh mate........
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    I was 7 remember it well

    rations in the playground for water

    Stand pipes in the streets

    Sweaty pits LOL
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    And a plague of ladybirds that year...
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    yes LOL that as well

    Herne Bay was smoothered when we went one Sunday
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,675
    I remember that summer well. Had my finals that year but at least when I'd finished I could enjoy it. Played Cricket on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays and often down the aforementioned Charlton Lido on some of the other days.

    Wonderful!
  • Sco
    Sco Posts: 2,623
    [cite]Posted By: Riscardo[/cite]The Oval though was scorchio ... specially Sir Viv

    Hold on a minute. 2007 - 27...
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,822
    [cite]Posted By: Sco[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Riscardo[/cite]The Oval though was scorchio ... specially Sir Viv

    Hold on a minute. 2007 - 27...

    He must have seen the videos ;O)
  • bc_addick
    bc_addick Posts: 761
    Remember it well, Hot sticky exam rooms as I took my CSE and O levels. Summer was good for me though as I played Cricket at the Oval for Croydon Schools. Shame we had to beat South London Schools in the final .

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  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,769
    [cite]Posted By: Valley_McMoist[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: guinnessaddick[/cite]Remember jumping on a 96 every day to go to Dansom Park Lido, had a lorry tyre inner tube and had great fun.

    Those were the days when Health and Safety regulations didn't rule our lives. You could do a bomb off the top board at the likes of Danson or Charlton Lido and if someone just happened to be underneath at that point, that was their fault.


    What happened to the lidos? People don't need the exercise anymore perhaps?
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    The lido is a thing of the past,plus we don't get the weather anymore, Exercise now takes place down the gym.
    I would rather go for a long walk than go down the gym.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,769
    [cite]Posted By: badger[/cite]The lido is a thing of the past,plus we don't get the weather anymore.


    So this global warming thing is happening on another planet?
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Global warming is crap,it's alarmist and will probably exist just like the ice age never happened.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,769
    [cite]Posted By: badger[/cite]Global warming is crap,it's alarmist and will probably exist just like the ice age never happened.

    So you don't believe that global warming is real. Sorry but I fail to get the connection to the ice-age.
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,626
    charlton lido is stil going,got a bit run down and facilities are quite poor,but it still opens for about 6 weeks in the summer and you do get a decent crowd on hot days.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,769
    [cite]Posted By: ThreadKiller[/cite]charlton lido is stil going,got a bit run down and facilities are quite poor,but it still opens for about 6 weeks in the summer and you do get a decent crowd on hot days.


    Glad to hear it.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,499
    My poor mother gave birth to me in July of that summer!

    She's never forgiven me.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,962
    edited October 2007
    [cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]only from the 29th May onwards........:-)

    Well, AFKA, May 29 is my birthday too.
    Except I'm year or so older than you..... ;o)

    It was the year The Who played their second and last gig at The Valley.

    The summer of 76....the slogan was "Save water - bath with a friend".

    Ruined cottages and churches that had been flooded when reservoirs were built gradually appeared as the waters went down before at the bottom, the crazed concrete like dried mud.

    It never rained from April until September and on the first day when they finally made people get their water from standpipes, it pissed down.
    I remember seeing on TV news, queues of people standing bedraggled in the rain waiting their turn to fill containers.

    It could only happen in Britain.
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    [cite]Posted By: carly burn[/cite]My poor mother gave birth to me in July of that summer!

    She's never forgiven me.

    Bloody hell that makes me feel old.

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