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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.

I remember it well, my strongest memories are of trying to keep my son cool as he was a baby that summer and him eating ladybirds when sat on a blanket in the garden as there were so many of them, they were everywhere.

I don't really remember it...........

It was so hot and tiring being pregnant but my son was born after that so it was OK in the end.

I remember it so well because I was studying Chemistry for my Higher exam while lying on a blanket in the back garden listening to the Isley Brothers on the radio 'Summer breeze makes me feel fine / Blowing through the jasmine in my mind'....every time I hear this song it makes me remember that summer.

I remember it well, I went to the beach most days and sunbathed, with no regard for what damage it might do, we were'nt really aware of such things- wouldn't do it now

I remember my little ones just sleeping in their nappies the whole of the summer it was just too hot for PJs

I was 8 in 1976 and can remember being on the swimming club float at the local carnival. The tarmac on the road melted, all the floats were stuck and they had to take us into peoples houses out of the sun and for water.

Shelf-stacking at night in 20+ degree heat and it taking half the time just replenishing the soft drinks alone - then trying to sleep during the day. Nightmare!

I remember eating never ending ice cream on the beach in the Isle Of Wight! And having a belly ache to go with my sun burn!

I remember it well. We lived in a little cottage on the edge of an army range in Surrey which, being peaty, caught fire and burned slowly for days. I was shipped out with our 1 year old daughter to my parents house 60 miles away. We had only just arrived when a neighbour from down the lane phoned and advised DH to return home asap as the wind had changed direction and things were not looking good. So he and my Dad raced back expecting the worst. By then a troop of Ghurkas had arrived with a Green Goddess and were pumping water from the bottom of our garden to the top to keep the fire dampened down. They camped there for over a week and then, miraculously, the rain came. It chucked it down for hours and we entertained 4 soggy soldiers in our tiny kitchen with water pouring through the roof tiles which had just had too much sun and heat and had given up on us! Seems like yesterday but the baby is now 41

I had just given birth to my eldest daughter it was just so hot that summer there was a standpipe in the street and I remember a lot of wasps that year I really did't go out much that year

I was a hod carrier on a building site in Coulsdon surrey when we went back to work after lunch,one of the hoddies reached the bottom of the ladder and collasped.He nearly died,where bye the subbie we was working for decided we would work from 6 am to 2 pm.what a great summer on the lash from 2 pm till we collasped & to do it again the next day bliss (I was only 20).

Trying to keep cool while holidaying in a tin can of a caravan. Cooling our baby down in a large washing up bowl outside in the shade of an oak tree.

it was hot

It was very hot!

I was living in abroad and don't think it was as bad there. I recall family living in England and complaining about the hose pipe ban.

The Big Swarms of ladybirds

I had only been married a year. My husband firm changed the hours to start at 6 am when it was cooler,as a new wife I used to get up and cook his breakfast. Also remember putting washing out and it was dry within a hour,including jeans.

Yes, I certainly remember the heatwave of '76. I was pregnant with my son Paul, he was safely delivered on the 25th June 1976. Also I remember we had a hose pipe ban too.

The roads were melting, people were sunburnt, and I loved it but I kept on fainting!

The year got hotter and hotter from February onwards. We were overrun with ? ladybirds.
It was my first year as a mother. Unbeknown to me it was to be my mothers last. Luckily We spent six hot balmy weeks together. She was able to get to know and enjoy her first grandchild.
The most abiding memory for me is waving goodbye to mum at lime street station. I never saw her again

I just remember it was so scorching hot that we slept with no blankets or sheet on us

Coming home from school and finding a HUUUUGE swimming pool erected in my back garden filled up with water for me to jump in to

I remember simply not being to keep cool, no matter what we tried. And wearing as little as was decently possible! All the children on the street were running round the street and the park in the next to nothing, having water fights and throwing the grass cuttings from the park over each other. The ice cream man that year made a fortune!!