The year when everything changed not only for me personally but for the film industry in general. Comedian Leslie Crowther brings a smile. Early in the year I had watched For the film industry one movie changed everything that summer.
Was 1975 really that warm and wonderful?
The price of new potatoes rises to its highest-ever figure, topping £200 a ton. At the end of chapter three he mentions the Cinderella-summer of 1975: as good as 1976 but banished to the scullery of our meteorological memories.
JUNE.
Original list. The summer of 1975.
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This delayed the harvest of some late crops and the drilling of winter cereal. Roads to the coast are crowded in the afternoon - though, in some places, traders say business is fairly quiet, with visitors seemingly on an economy drive!
For three solid hours I sat there and watched without a single visit to the bathroom (which was amazing considering I was a three visit …
Trouble is, few of us recall it. A container holds an average of 18 tons.
The start of June was extraordinary, it was cold, there were frosts and there was snow.
It starts to melt at Geest Shipping Line's depot. "Picking should have started during late October but what with snow in June I don't expect we will start this year's harvest until November," he said. The summer and autumn of 1975 were very dry, and the winter of 1975–76 was exceptionally dry, as was the spring of 1976; indeed, some months during this period had no rain at all in some areas. Over the whole area, there was measurable rainfall on only seven days. Things didn't start promisingly. Autumn 1975 was fairly dry, and winter was mild - with way too little rain to replenish reservoirs. On the 8th, flames at Bromeswell, near Woodbridge, "spread as fast as a man could run" as they destroy a quarter-mile belt of gorse and trees. A movie came out that was so popular it was the first to gross $100 million and would play from its summer opening all the way until Christmas where the film would find new life in second run opening at more suburban theaters. In many places, the temperature hit or exceeded 80F on 12 days and 70F on 26 days.
The drought was at its most severe in August 1976 and in response parliament passed the Drought Act 1976.
But more and more suburban mall theaters were getting the same first run films and since there were so many being released these theaters were either building three-four screen theaters or original singles were being cut into two and three theaters while drive-ins continued to thrive. By August 4, East Anglia is sweltering during another day of tropical temperatures, with the mercury (did we still use mercury 45 years ago?)
Met Office scientists said rainfall in England and Wales from 1971 to 1975 was the lowest for a five-year spell since the 1850s. In Suffolk, glorious sunshine greets tennis players at the 79th East of England Championships at Felixstowe, though heavy showers interrupt the second day of play.
At Colchester, the garrison admits it started the Fingringhoe fire - in order to create a firebreak before USAF personnel from Northamptonshire tried out flammable grenades. Click the link in the orange box below for details.
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