The sweltering summer of 1976 and how people desperately tried to stay cool

The summer of 1976 should have been our wake-up call

There are many things that remain a strong memory in the British psyche and none less than the infamous summer of 1976.

Amazing photos show Londoners sweating in 1976 heatwave exactly 50 years ago

Temperatures famously soared to 35.9C

The sweltering summer of 1976 and how people desperately tried to stay cool

Over in Rugby, residents even tried a rain dance

Think this heatwave is bad? It's got nothing on the summer of 1976

London’s boiling over — and not for the first time

‘Dried-up rivers and swarms of ladybirds’: Memories of the 1976 heatwave

With a rare red warning now in place for extreme heat, we look back on the record breaking summer of 1976.