The Summer of '76
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I was an apprentice at RAF Cosford. The day the heatwave broke I was at the Wrekin Gliding Club hangar, showering in the run-off from the overflowing gutters, then rode my motorbike, stark naked, over the airfield to the CADF building in the middle, with lightning crashing all round.
Oh to be nineteen again!
Oh to be nineteen again!
I was 8 (nearly 9) and spent the entire 6 weeks with my parents in their caravan in Wales. I was a deep shade of brown with almost white hair. Spent a lot of it in the sea with our inflatable dinghy.
I have loads of pics that Dad took. It was one of those idillic times I'd give anything to relive.
I have loads of pics that Dad took. It was one of those idillic times I'd give anything to relive.
Oh yes I remember the good old 70's with my dads Hillman Hunter that we couldn't use at weekends because that is when he was fixing it. I also remember those real itchy blankets in winter with frost on the inside of the single glazed wooden framed glass. Th toilet was down the garden so t night you either froze, well actually you wouldn't freeze because you would always tread on something in the garden that made you dance or you used the bucket. Come to think of it I also remember the tin bath that got put in front of the fire where you would quite literally be burning on one side while freezing on the other, oh those were the days.
E31Shrew said:
Got posted to RAF Brawdy for the whole summer. Had to lie around on the airfield all day taking airframe numbers for a FOD. Survey ( Foreign object damage! )
18 years old and not a a care in the world
Six year old and spent the summer keeping cool in the sea at Newgale. IIRC 76 was a bad year for Brawdy as they lost 3 or 4 Hunters. I saw one of the crashes but I think that was in the autumn half term rather than the summer.18 years old and not a a care in the world
I was four. I remember moving from what was a grotty ground floor flat to a housing estate. It seemed like a massive place.
No outside loo at the new house was a let down though. Saying that, with the weather like it was, an outside loo might not have been ideal.
One legacy of the summer was all the kids being banned from playing on some derelict ground due to a massive rise in the amount of Adders seen there. That ban stretched for years, until they built on it!
No outside loo at the new house was a let down though. Saying that, with the weather like it was, an outside loo might not have been ideal.
One legacy of the summer was all the kids being banned from playing on some derelict ground due to a massive rise in the amount of Adders seen there. That ban stretched for years, until they built on it!
12 years old, but remember 1976 with vivid memories
2 weeks holiday in a caravan on the River Blackwater, spent every day fishing without a car in the world.
Trip down in the family VW Beetle was fun, as every time we stopped it ended up with a serious fuel evaporation issue, and the old man had to get out and suck fuel up to the carb.
Also recall it bought parts of the rail network to a halt with buckled rails.
Used to stand by the side of the road and wait for a lorry or bus to pass by just to get a bit of a breeze!!!
2 weeks holiday in a caravan on the River Blackwater, spent every day fishing without a car in the world.
Trip down in the family VW Beetle was fun, as every time we stopped it ended up with a serious fuel evaporation issue, and the old man had to get out and suck fuel up to the carb.
Also recall it bought parts of the rail network to a halt with buckled rails.
Used to stand by the side of the road and wait for a lorry or bus to pass by just to get a bit of a breeze!!!
The summer of my 'A' levels! I remember doing all the exams in, what felt like, an oven! Great summer before Uni - borrowed the gf's parents caravan to go bonking . . . . . err . . . . I mean camping for weeks on end! GF's Mother was so naive but her old man wasn't so. Just as I left for Uni at the end of that summer my old man said his farewells and finished off with the following words I'll never forget - "I'm amazed you've got any energy left to make it to University". Brilliant days.
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