General Chat

We were living in Hampshire and getting ready to move back to Germany for the 2nd time (Army family). I just remember the long hot days and nights and trying to pack up all our worldy goods in between trying to keep cool. Love and Peace Marianne.x

i was pregnant and had my daughter in jan 77.Very uncomfortable for me Annie

I remember being at school for 8:30 and finishing at 12:30. Then we would go to King Georges open air swimming pool. Julie

Kids were 4 and 2. Just remember trying to keep them cool and filling the paddling pool with the bath water, syphoning it from upstairs to the pool in the garden with the hose. Linda

All I can remember about it was having a great holiday in Torquay with my wife and children! Davex

I remember waking up every day to glorious sunshine. We had a large garden and paddock and the grass was totally brown. We had a pony (rescued from the nackers yard, hubby driving by saw him, paid over the odds and brought him home, bless) so we had to go round paying over the top prices for hay in the middle of summer. When I came home from work Id strip off (very secluded in country) and hubby would spray the garden hose on me. It would be warm water where it had been laying in the hose all day. We had a brilliant summer, just married, no kids, double salaries and lots of outings!

I was being born! Height of the season (July)! My poor mother! Pat

Met the man who was to become my future husband. It was at a party. I was sitting in the garden with a crowd of college mates. When it got a bit dark and chillier and they began to leave I went inside, where Mel was making coffee. He kissed all the girls goodbye, including me - and then took another girl home! We met at the same house 8 months later and have been together ever since. But at the time, I just wrote him off and spent the summer working at the Dept of Health & Social Security in Croydon. I remember going home every afternoon and sticking my feet in a bowl of cold water! nell

I was 8 during the summer of 1976, I can remember spending the school holidays with my Nan & Grandad as Mum & Dad were at work. We spent a lot of time at the park and as it was hot I spent most of the time in my swimming costume. When we got home on one day I was so badly sunburnt I can remember lying on Nan's bed while she covered me from head to foot in calamine lotion, My Mum was horrified when she got in from work that Nan hadn't made me cover up in a t-shirt or put on suntan lotion. Michele

I went to stay with my friend in Uxbridge and her parents took us to Hampton Court gardens, you could see through the hedges of the maze as it was so dry. The week after we were on our annual boating holiday on the Thames and we were not allowed to use a lock until there were enough boats to fill each one. I can also remember melting on the hottest day of the year in the New Forest - everything was brown and tinder dry - think they had a few fires that year.

Caught chickenpox!!! AL

We went to live in Cyprus, where it was hotter!!

i was 13, and all i can remember was what a fun summer i had, lovely weatherwise... unfortunately i cannot even remember a water shortage... was there one in the north west? bearing in mind our water company got its water from the river Dee (Chester waterworks as it was then)

I was only 20 months old so not really sure if this memory would be from then or not - but I do remember one summer where my and my big brother were always bathed together and then when we were finished my mum used to put all the bedsheets in our bath water and we'd have to stamp up and down on them.

Hi Cherry, I think up North we survived the drought but, I certainly did not escape the intense heatwave.........I had to walk to work every day, took half an hour.........by the time I had done a week in the heat............I was blistered beyond recognition, and spent the next two weeks in agony, unable to bear anything next to my skin...........never could sunbathe lol, just go red and blister. That's certainly one hot summer I will remember! Jen

Tee Hee Blue, so you were one of the band of ruffian stock car racing afficionados who used to upset the locals, pmsl The meets were held in the next field to ours. We thought it was great and the kids and their mates had a ringside view without even having to pay! However the local farmers got browned off big time with their cattle being spooked due to the noise and it was stopped! I guess you would've got rid of the dust in your throat at the Cross in Hand Inn at the end of the road or perhaps you went a mile down the road to the Blackboys Inn? Cherryxx

Hiya Cherry, I was 13, remember walking to school already boiling at 8am, we had lots of lessons outside in the grounds I think. we had to use the standpipes - I remember where it was, but not much else about it - I expect mum sorted it all while I was at school! would have spent the summer hols sitting in the shade in the garden with the transistor radio on!! can't remember where we went on holiday - would probably have been Clacton or Cliftonville - nothing exotic! Maz. XX

Not much I wasn't around til 1978 and there were a lot of us born that year.....musta been sumat in d water back in '77!!! LOL

Daughter was only one at the time,OH worked in the mornings and we spent most afternoons on the beach at Frinton....Have lovely cine film of that year.......

Used to come back from work and get straight into a bath of cold water..........!