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During amazingly hot weather I vividly remember having to study for 'A' level exams, then finally being able to relax and take full advantage of being outdoors at last.

Summer holiday in Torquay and swarms of wasps.

i remember having to help my mum go fill buckets of water from the stand pipes out on the street as we all had our water turned off as the reservoirs were so low ,but us kids still had fun splashing water at each other from the pipes to stay cool .

I remember it very well. I was studying for my GCEs on a very hot day wearing a halter neck top, laying on my stomach, revising for hours as I lost track of time being the conscientious young girl that I was]. That night my back was red raw & blistered, I couldn't lay on my back for about 2 weeks & I had to keep a soft flanelette sheet bandaged around me. The same day my sister burnt her legs & had a huge blister the size of a tennis ball which got infected & had to be lanced.

Long summer days grooving out in the park; grass turning brown; rivers getting covered in green; blue sky every day from May to August.

INSECTS EVERYWHERE

Sharing bathwater then using it to flush the loo and standpipes in the streets.

Taking my GCEs and then having a nine week summer holiday. Visited Jersey for two weeks, which was glorious.

It was our first summer married we went to Isle of Man it was scorching here but overcast there TYPICAL!!

This was the first time we went abroad leaving standpipes being installed at home!!

I was heavily pregnant and feeling far too hot. The decision to make pastry for a pie for dinner was not a wise one. The butter kept melting on my fingers as I tried to rub it into the flour and when I tried to form it into a ball it just stuck to my palms no matter how much extra flour I used. I suddenly saw red and threw the mess across the kitchen in frustration. Once I'd calmed down of course I had to clear it all up which made me feel even hotter! I can't remember what we had for dinner that night.

I was 14 in 1976. I remember (what seemed like) a never ending hot summer like it was yesterday. My best friend and I cut all our trousers and jeans up into "short shorts" complete with cheese cloth floating tops we thought we were the bees knees. I remember filling an old plastic baby bath with cold water and sitting on the front step with our feet dangling into it to keep cool. When my mam had gone off to work I would put my speakers on the window sill and open the window wide listening to Elton John and Kiki Dee singing "Don't go breaking my heart", Abba's "Dancing Queen" and my favourite Candi staton "Young hearts run free".... which we did.

Yes, I remember it as a magical summer. My children were 4 & 5, a magical age. We lived in a seaside town and were out to the beach and in the sea, with friends and their children as much as posdible.

Remember DH rigging a hosepipe from the bath outlet, across the outhouse roof and onto the vegetable garden because of the hosepipe ban.

I went on holiday with my boyfriend, ooh la la. We went to St Ives and spend a blissfully happy 10 days.

We too had standpipes and remember the unbearable heat in our little terraced house! Sometimes the queue for water was good natured and cheerful, but as the summer wore on Mums got edgy and tired! The army also delivered large bottles of water.

Now when we camp in Spain and buy water in similar size bottles I smile at the changes in our life!

I was 26 years old in 1976, I had married at 18 years old, so remember it well.

Ahh 1976 was a very good year, my husband, of almost 40 years, proposed to me on by the beautiful Lake Windermere (which had a lot less water in because of the drought!!) we were both 19 years old and very much in love. Sweet memories are made of this.

DH built a garage, brick by brick, in the back garden....never having before done any brick-laying. What a hero!

Camping with a group of young people in Derbyshire and playing rounders on the bed of a dried up reservoir near Ladybower

This was the summer I took my GCE's -terrible results but had a fantastic sun tan!

Coming home from work stripping off and catching the last of the sunshine in the garden. Summer evening parties wearing a long dress (I loved that dress, different shades and patterns in red ) and sitting outside drinking. (Can we gloss over the passing out in the strawberry patch, please.) By the end of the year I was pregnant as well and completely off alcohol anyway.

I was just pregnant with DS2 and suffered morning/afternoon/evening sickness ! Wasn't too pregnant to strip down to tshirt and knickers in the back garden playing with the kids and a hose though! Great fun!

Doing exams in school and finding it very hard to concentrate as i wanted to be outdoors!

I was heavily pregnant, with a toddler and found it so difficult. Would have loved it at any other time!

I was revising for A levels- in a bikini in the back garden.

The brick in the cistern to save water and syphoning the bath water out of the window to try and keep the struggling vegetable plants watered.