1976
- Thread starter GTB
- Start date
Yep apparently birth rates fell dramatically in 77 and a lot more girls were born than boys
- Location
- Ceredigion
Carting small bales back from Cambridgeshire with the TK , NFU lads went on a baling frenzy and left bales everywhere that no one wanted, farmers were begging me to get them gone , the night before rain was forecast I stayed up all night spreading Nitram , cows lived off straw most of the winter
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Funny you should say that......
A friend of mine texted me to say that he had seen this thread, but as he wasn't born until 1977, he had missed out on it.
I told him he had missed out on the loveliest summer there ever was. I was 16 and that it was the year that everybody wore less clothes to keep cool. The side effect obviously being that especially the women were a lot more revealing as to their shape and sizes etc etc! I told him that I was reasonably certain that this "wearing of less clothes" may well have caused an increase in promiscuity! (Say no more!!!)
My friend then went on to tell me that I could be right and that he was sat in the pub recently with a group of his friends and that they all shared the same birthday within a very few days of each other, being around September 25th.
I burst out laughing because I'd quickly worked out that they must all have been conceived around Christmas 1976.
It had been raining for 3 months solid by then!
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
More to do with "the pill" I should think. Not that many years before.
I 60's iconic film "Alfie" is a shocking reminder of life before
- Location
- Warwickshire
My brother was born in April 77, I wonder if that was because of an early finish to harvest ?
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
That must be a result of the Christmas 1976 no1 being "When a child is born" by Johnnie Mathis. Must have got all that luurve going....
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I must admit I felt a little uncomfortable watching it
i like his default shot of the traffic cone, after hes been caught looking at a certain area!!!!
- Location
- Northumberland
Lynyrd Skynyrd at Knebworth!
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- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Are you my long lost brotherThe big difference between 1976 and now is that I have aged a bit
In '76 the dry summer was great ---- we sat by the lake drinking cider and swimming when we got a bit hot . Gone down hill ever since I reckon
Now I've gotten a responsible attitude and too much cider gives me a hangover or sends me to
Same here, remember helping cart some early hay and there was snow in the hills in the middle of June
Old Boar
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- Location
- West Wales
I think I still have those shorts....
Photos? ??I think I still have those shorts....
- Location
- Cambridgeshire
1976 crops were appalling I spent all day on Claas senator cutting spring barley to fill one ten ton Bedford lorry!
But I was 19 at the time the weather was hot,the girls were hot,and the water was warm what a summer ,
Later in the year potatoes were hard currency £ 6 a bag .
always had a bag in the boot ,average wage on a farm was around £ 20-25 for a 40 hr week to give you an idea of values
But I was 19 at the time the weather was hot,the girls were hot,and the water was warm what a summer ,
Later in the year potatoes were hard currency £ 6 a bag .
always had a bag in the boot ,average wage on a farm was around £ 20-25 for a 40 hr week to give you an idea of values
Penmoel
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We had moved into the farm at easter and with little livestock most of the place about 120 acres was to be made into hay, finished my A levels n 18th of June and my brother had cut about 60 acres for small bale hay, we cut the rest down. The old boys who had the farm before said we were mad, "cut a field at a time and finish each one", weather came and was on our side , hardest bit was getting the bales tight enough. We bought a brand new MF baler , which is still with us now, bloody thousands of small bales to carry though early in the morning and late at night.
- Location
- North Somerset.
I remember the following year autumn and winter saw a shortage of fodder and that Phillips Slaughterhouse at Norton Malreward was flat out killing cattle, many of which were not finished because there was not enough grub around.
In the summer of '76 I went camping in Devon and struggled to drive pegs into the baked ground.
Ground grazed bare and branches from high hedges being dropped to give stock a bit of greenery.
A bit like the winter of '62/63 I have been waiting for a repeat with some trepidation now I have the responsibility for decisions about the stock n the farm!
In the summer of '76 I went camping in Devon and struggled to drive pegs into the baked ground.
Ground grazed bare and branches from high hedges being dropped to give stock a bit of greenery.
A bit like the winter of '62/63 I have been waiting for a repeat with some trepidation now I have the responsibility for decisions about the stock n the farm!
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Perving like that would get u locked up nowI must admit I felt a little uncomfortable watching it