Memories of 1976

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  1. Gimson&theBarnsleys

    Gimson&theBarnsleys Well-Known Member

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    Man it was hot.
     
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    Watching the best cricket team I've ever seen, West Indies, play England that Summer. Ladybirds everywhere. Barnsley selling Mick Butler, Bobby Doyle, Anton Otulakowski & Martin Gorry. Barnsley signing John Saunders, Brian Joicey, Graham Felton, Graham Pugh & Neil Warnock. Watching a neighbour doing her very impressive version of the car washing scene from Cool Hand Luke.
     
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    Iley out !
     
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  4. Gimson&theBarnsleys

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    Car scenes like that must have been going on all over the Barnsley area because apart from it being hot that's about the only other thing I remember about 1976. Ohh and swimming in the perch pond at Cortonwood - it was like Benidorm up there.
     
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    Exactly!

    :D
     
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    Still makes me smile after all these years. I found it very educational.
     
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  7. Gimson&theBarnsleys

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    Was it a Cortina with a vinyl roof? :)
     
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    It was an old mini van

    Pardon me for a while whilst I reminisce.:D
     
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    Re: It was an old mini van

    Be careful, you don't want to be getting soap suds in your eyes.
     
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    Standpipes (for emergency water) installed on streets. We laid a wreath on the one installed on Granville Street at the end of the year when it hadn't been used for its purpose. We had only used it as a target for hoops and kicking a ball at! Oh those were the days.
     
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    It wouldn't last two minutes these days - not with that lot that live on there now :)
     
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    Yup, I too remember the standpipes being installed on our estate. Fortunately we never had to use them, although it might have been exciting when I was so young.
     
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    I can't remember much about the summer of 1976 (I was only 5), but I seem to remember a really cold winter that year. Lots of snow. Or am I mixing that up in my tiny mind?
     
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    It was so hot in the summer that dogshit on the pavements turned white in the heat! Never seen that since then.
     
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    White dogshit was common before the 70s...must have been a diet thing...
     
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    I remember a stand pipe breaking and a patch of grass behind where we lived being temporarily flooded. Myself, Ponty and loads of other kids took the opportunity to turn it into a giant paddling pool. I also remember the ladybirds and them biting my dad - we could see them coming in over the sea. 76 is probably the first summer I really remember properly and in great detail.
     
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    Playing cricket all summer on the school field and swimming in the dearne darn Hoyle Mill...
     
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    I was born
     
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    So for you it was mostly wet n warm but very dark ;)
     
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