WHO REMEMBERS THE SUMMER OF 1976 video Colin C. 

Every day was filled with beautiful blue sky and such glorious heat. I was seventeen and the perfect summer became the perfect year when I fell in love. 47 years later, (great)grandparents now. 1976 💞🌞🔥

Met my future wife in a boiling hot disco ! Also achieved some serious Lager consumption ! This and the winter of 62 / 63 are two amazing years I'll always remember !

Oh didn’t we have fun that year as kids. 😎😁😁😄😄

I remember Ladybird Summer like it was yesterday. I was 9 at the time. We had bright yellow towels, which my mam had washed and hung out to dry. Within 2 minutes you couldn't see ANY of the yellow whatsoever, it was just a red mass of writhing ladybirds stacked layers deep. Wow, I'll never forget that.

Fantastic video, Colin! I was 16yrs old during the '76 heatwave. Found it a tiring time as I dislike very hot weather 🥵. I remember the water rationing and the gradual build up of bad tempers as people grew tired and exhausted with the extreme heat and it's restrictions. The ice cream van was always welcome, though! 🍦. The breaking of the clouds in September '76 was such a relief! 💦. Thanks for the post...

I was at school that summer, cozies on , paddling pools summer holidays oh what fun !

At the age of 19, I treated myself to a brand new Bonneville 750 in February '76 for my birthday. It cost £774. What a brilluant summer I had.

Yes remember it very well, tarmac melting on the roads, I got sunstroke bad too

I was 15 in 76 and still remember it well

Went to bridlington for a weeks holiday in June 1976 it was like being abroad beautiful weather and got a superb tan !!

Was 12 in 76 had no water on the estate we lived in redditch Worcestershire all the grass was brown like a desert if it happened nowadays would be complete chaos

I remember the standpipes.

I was 8 years old and i remember it so well thank you for a great journey back in time 👍

I was in BAOR. The standing joke was that the only thing West Germany Exported to East Germany was forest fires. It was truly beautiful. One Captain Nixon of 651 Sqn AAC took me up in the most remarkable helicopter ride of my life, and I still have the shots to prove it. A dream. Beautiful.

We were living in Bath at the time in a flat in one of the old Georgian buildings. It had huge rooms with high ceilings which made it quite cool with all the windows open. The 1976 heatwave finally ended with a massive thunderstorm and flooded roads. It was an amazing summer.

1975 was very dry and hot from mid summer until September, then followed by a drier winter. We had no rain fall on our farm in Devon from the 8th of April 1976 until mis September. Due to the intense heat we would start work at daylight and then stop between mid day and 3pm except when haymaking or harvesting. Grass fields hedges and cliffs were regularly on fire, never seen before or since. No mention of global warming back then!!!!!!!!

We were on holiday with our new baby the tar was melting on the roads stuck to your shoes and car tyres, we just carried on as normal this was in North Yorkshire. Happy Days.

I remember it well Colin & Wifey. I was 19 and being a sun lover spent most of my time sunbathing in Heaton Park when I got chance. Also I still had my mum and dad! So yeah, Happy Days for me for sure.😊🌞

I like the picture of the man with the boller hat ,dipping his feet in the fountain.😃😀😄

I was a waitress in Newquay at the Eliot Hotel. I had the time of my life, made lovely friends, and have wonderful memories.

I was 16 too, I left school on May 28th and cycled from Tilbury in Essex to my Nan's house in Hastings, Sussex for what I realised would be potentially my last ever holiday. I ended up staying there till August when the heat returned to normal - great summer.

Remember well that summer

I was 8. Trunks and bare feet all summer, swimming in streams and piling ladybirds onto clockwork toy boats 🤣😎

Loved it all. I was 8 in 76 and thought I was the only one who remembered the winter.

Remember it well ,best summer holidays from school ever .got sun stroke though lol. All day at beach with one quenchy cup drink and a jam sarnie ,no hat no sun cream .the hallucinations were terrifying 😂

I was 5 and remember this well, when the ice ream van came my mam would buy a pounds worth of 2p ice lollies, they were fricking delicious, the red ones, cherry brandy were my favourite, mam must have made millions of ice cubes. Happy days, happy days

Was 5 just turning 6 in August and loved every minute of it. The soil was so dry it gave us trillions of hours of fun playing mud-bombs at eachother. The good ol' days of hot summers and cold winters and Scotland had a far far better football team than England.

I was in my 3rd year at college in York and decided to take a summer job working in a local iron foundry (Smith's foundry I think which was next to the Foss). The only time I got cool was by sticking my head in the fridge!

I remember it well. I was working in Jersey and the heat was pretty unbearable and I saw fires break out on the headland at Gronez..frightening stuff...

People often forget how blazing the previous summer, 1975, was particularly August of that year. This came after 15 years of summers without any extended heat (and often cold for weeks on end) 1960-1974 were largely atrocious with June 1970 being the only summer month in that period to be significantly above average temperature wise. This made the back to back scorchers of 75/76 such a shock to the system.

Three week "expedition" around France and Spain in the school minibus. Earning a shed load of money clearing rubbish from Knebworth Park and the fields around after the festival headlined by the Stones. A bicycle, a bunch of mates, out hither and thither throughout the rest of the school holidays. What a year to be aged fifteen...

Oh yes. I remember it well. I was pregnant that year with my first child and gave birth on 9th August. I was so brown people thought I was a foreigner ;) I welcomed September, which was still warm but less so... interestingly, I had a son, who was (is) red haired and he hates the sunshine! haha xxx

I had all the windows and doors open in the living quarters and lay naked on the bed. There was no breeze. If you sneezed you got some kind of draught. Luckily I had a very heavy cold.

I remember it well I was 9yrs old that November found ya channel today so I've subscribed 👍

Remember it well i was working outside at the time it was unbearable, Even the local pub run out of beer .

My husband was at Ladybower and was able to walk on the area where the damn had dried up. I was talking about it to a gentleman yesterday who said when the rain finally came both he and his wife just stood outside enjoying getting wet

When you think it was hotter 48 years ago than it is now?????

You know there's a serious problem when Wales is short of water.

I was only 8 years old in 1976, but what a summer !. I lived in Middlesbrough & the 6 weeks summer holiday was awesome. I used to sit on a seat near the main road & see the downtown skyline shimmering in the heat. I also remember those other bizarre phenomenons, such as the Cleveland hills on fire & the ladybirds. Last, but by no means least, was the thundery breakdowns at the end of August. My parents had taken me to Redcar to get some sandshoes for P.E lessons for the new school term. As we came out of the shoe shop, a huge lightning bolt hit the Woolworths store across the High Street &, before we could get back to the car, the heavens opened !. Almost 50 years on, the memories are every bit as fresh

Was working in a factory located in Dursley Glou. Had a glass ceiling. The Co. Mawdsley's Painted the glass over with whitewash.

Great summer! iiI too remember the ,ladybirds. We were on the beach an a swarm of them covered us and our ice Creams!

i remember them both,

Lost my favourite budgie to the heat was wounded over it for months

remember it well, i was 15 the barn field s grass had gone brown and the soil was cracked in places i could get my hand down to my wrist ,yet last autumn and winter you could sink the same depth in your wellies in places

the temperature in Scotland has dropped by 1.02.5,c, since then in England and Scotland we haven't had a UK-wide heatwave like 1976 since 12. years

i remember it, grandma died 3rd august day before my 8th birthday.

It seems like now every weather event, hot or cold is seen as new and unprecedented , quickly attributed to climate change.

working at brean summerset during those very hot 8 weeks' it bleached my hair & we got invaded by millions of ladybird bugs that bit you , but the days was great ............

I can remember it well, colin, it was the year i left school on a friday and started work on the monday at a electronics factory in My home town of Torquay Devon where i still live ,

I was 14 in 76 and spent 2 weeks in the summer with the boy scouts camping in South Glamorgan.... we helped the firemen put out dozens of heathland fires, that was also the yr southend on sea pier burnt down.

Wimbledon with Borg blazing never ending heat

This was the summer I left school and started work, my employer had me rearranging and re folding baby clothes, all day in a building with a glass roof. Within the first week I became very ill with heat stroke, and she sacked me for not turning up to work.

1976. The year my second child was born. The heat was unbearable and it scorched the earth. People enjoyed it for a little while, but it was actually concerning when it went on and on with no seasonal changes. The children had to have a tent put up so that they could play in the scorched garden.

My older brother was born then mate and contracted meningitis and ended up in hospital over the winter. It was the hottest year but the snow that followed was as told my mother worst she’d ever seen 👍🏻

I remember it vividly. I was about to give birth to my 3rd baby. It was so hot you couldnt breath....

I was 6 in '76. I don't recall water shortages or anything although I suppose there must have been some?

I was 21 and married my Romeo that summer here in Maine and it was a very hot hot day in many ways

I remember it very well

I was 25 or 26 at the time lived in Southampton no water shortage there as all our water came from boreholes

Did we have a greenfly summer and a ladybird one that followed? I remember sitting outside during our factory breaks and getting covered in them.

Remember the pavements melting?

My father died in July 76 ( aged 45 yrs) of a coronary, and I,ve got little doubt that this heat wave was a contributory factor.

I was 24 and working on building sites in 1976 and those ladybirds were a nuisance . They landed on your skin and bit. Something great for us blokes back then ,does anyone remember the hotpants fashion ? the girls wore a lot of those during the heatwave.

Ido i rember swimming in the reservoir and river just to cool off . Nights with the eindowswide open . Slideing down grassy hills on cardboard sheets . My mate came off and cut his back upreally bad.but it was such fun

I was living in a tiny bedsit on the second floor of what would be called an HMO now, I had a gas powered 'fridge which broke down and the landlord refused to repair or replace it! I soon moved out of that dreadful property, and got married.

I remember the Summer of 76. I still say it has yet to be beaten. Remember the Ladybird invasion that year? And I remember the tankers ferrying water from up here down South too. I remember watching the Thunderstorms in September when the drought broke too. They were awe inspiring!

I was 13, missed it as I was in Magaluf all summer!

I was 13 at the time and remember my dad taking us up to the Derwent reservoir up Consett way, it was amazing to see it so low. The ladybird problem I hadn't heard of, what I heard on news items was the opposite, Greenfly was the problem because there wasn't enough Ladybirds which are Greenflies natural predators. I remember the summer of 1977 was a wash out

I was 29 in 1976. Played a round of golf mid July! After 9 holes l hit the bar and had a can of cold Shandy! Wrong move!! Got massive stomach cramps and keeled over! Not good!

It was a good time to ride a motorcycle but you had to park your bike in the shade otherwise you would get a burnt bottom when you rode off .

was that globle boiling

Global warming my arse it’s weather and unpredictable, forecasters never get it right😂👍🏻

started work in this year

Was in brecon then pot holing

No chem trails then......

@4:30 The North Reservoir, at Staines on Thames.......

On a vsit to Hunstanton ladybirds covered the pavements it was impossible not to tread on them.

lol one failed o level student....home was at Barton-on-sea, beach 5mins away, er revising?? ice cream man asked if I was trying to change my nationality....

Every pic black and white ??? Colour was very much the norm

Thank goodness just stop oil and there fellow tree huggers weren't around then 😏they would be having kittens

I was 20, grouse beating behind family farm in Perthshire. That was some heat. The gamekeepers all wore tweed plus fours. A lot of us smoked but were very careful to extinguish the butts 😂 it was I think 92 Fahrenheit. The weather broke one night with a spectacular thunderstorm, multiple lightning bolts to the north. The beaters had great fun and I had lost a stone by the end of the 6 weeks. The shooters were paying a fortune and transported from Gleneagles each day, I think we had a better deal, £7 per day and too tired to spend it