Summer of 1976 and Climate Change
The Summer of 1976 saw an exceptional drought and heat but today’s summers are far worse
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1976 – 50 years ago in Britain
I turned 13 years of age in 1976 and was at secondary school in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. Let’s look back at a year when we experienced a never ending summer with a resulting drought. Before that, Prime Minister Harold Wilson suddenly resigned for reasons that didn’t seem very obvious. He’d just won election only two…
Notting Hill carnival ends in riot
In the late 1970s, every year at the Notting Hill Carnival ended in a riot reflecting poor relations between the Metropolitan Police and black youth