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A scorching summer: The Heatwave of 1976 in 25 photos

The early morning sun shines down on these tennis fans at Wimbledon on July 3, 1976

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Ben Craske

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With UK temperatures soaring and today set to be the hottest day of the year so far, today we are stepping back in time to another sweltering summer - the heatwave of 1976.
The Empire Theatre, Wisbech, an Art Deco gem of a building, barely altered since it opened in 1932.

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90th birthday for historic Art Deco theatre

John Elworthy

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A cartoon of Percy Sekine by London Evening Standard cartoonist Jak - who Sekine trained.

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Archive material of half-Japanese British war time airman at Ely auction

John Elworthy

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Gothic House, Cottenham, which was subject of enforcement action four years ago

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'Bubble wrap' Gothic House an eyesore say villagers

John Elworthy

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The Queen arriving for Maundy Money distribution, missiles through Mepal and the black out in Cambridgeshire

Ely Cathedral

Maundy Money, jam factory, baby's death and Mepal missiles

John Elworthy

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XH648 in the Conservation Hall at IWM Duxford, where it was last in 2016 before work began on the aircraft in Hangar 5.

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Last remaining Victor aircraft of its kind to be displayed at IWM Duxford

Alan Davies

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Jolly |Anglers

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‘Moral sewage’, Soham’s first car, firefighter breaks his glasses and...

John Elworthy

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archives compilation

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Waiting for a train at Chatteris - and rising cost of fares from Ely

John Elworthy

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The party from the Fens that went to see war ravaged Europe in 1920

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'Utter impossibility of conveying an adequate idea of the ruin' left by war

John Elworthy

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The infamous spaceship Mcdonalds aka Megatron near Alconbury. 

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7 things you could do in Cambs in the 90s that you can’t do now

Rosie Boon

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