My Teenage Diary June - Sept 1976 - the videos

I have made a series of videos, on Tik Tok and Instagram, talking through my diary pages from various days from the summer of 1976, asking What Were You Doing 50 Years Ago?

I hope you enjoy these, they've been fun to do.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Romeo & Juliet (Colour)	Romeo & Juliet (bw)	Richard The Third (Colour)	Richard  The Third (bw)
Shakespeare Omnibus	Findlay  Macbeth	Prince of  Denmark Street	Midsummer Night's  Dream Team
Tales From Bible (Col)	Tales From Bible (bw)	Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories	Space Elain
Book Of Esther	Who Notes	Shakespeare comic	Kids Comics Annual 2027
Kids Comics Annual 2026	Kids Comics  Annual 2025	Socks Do Shakespeare	Colouring Books

Rain - August 28th & 29th 1976

 

From which we can conclude it rained a lot on the last weekend of August 1976. However I seem to have managed to cycle to an airshow with Nick & Kev on the Sunday, got a puncture, then failed to wait for them to return with a bike pump, which shows a great lack of faith and trust on my part. I have, of course, no memory of this incident and I doubt they do either.

My Records For The Day come from Ken Dodd and The Beatles, which must have something to do with those "40 Years Of TV" programmes they were running at the time.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Romeo & Juliet (Colour)	Romeo & Juliet (bw)	Richard The Third (Colour)	Richard  The Third (bw)
Shakespeare Omnibus	Findlay  Macbeth	Prince of  Denmark Street	Midsummer Night's  Dream Team
Tales From Bible (Col)	Tales From Bible (bw)	Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories	Space Elain
Book Of Esther	Who Notes	Doctors Who? Colouring	Sweet Smell Of Sockcess
Kids Comics Annual 2026	Kids Comics Annual 2025	Socks Do Shakespeare	Colouring Books

Action comic eviscerated - 12th & 13th August 1976

Action comic, the British version, is the subject of history books now. It got banned, questions were asked in the house, it was ground breaking, and it lead directly to 2000AD comic the following year. If you've got original copies, they're quite collectible. Not, however, if you cut the picture off the front cover and stuck it in your diary, which is what I've done here. That is an amazing image by Don Lawrence, and I perhaps should have left it where it was, but somehow I thought posterity would prefer it being sliced out and doodled around by me.

Page two of this spread is fun, try turning the page on its side to read it. See, not as easy as you thought. That's why books are better than computers and phones, the end.

My Records For The Day came from Lou Rawls, Dave Edmunds, and Jan & Dean. I was ever eclectic in my tastes. Was I hell as like, I just regurgitated whatever had been on Radio 1 that day.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Romeo & Juliet (Colour)	Romeo & Juliet (bw)	Richard The Third (Colour)	Richard  The Third (bw)
Shakespeare Omnibus	Findlay  Macbeth	Prince of  Denmark Street	Midsummer Night's  Dream Team
Tales From Bible (Col)	Tales From Bible (bw)	Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories	Space Elain
Book Of Esther	Who Notes	Doctors Who? Colouring	Sweet Smell Of Sockcess
Kids Comics Annual 2026	Kids Comics Annual 2025	Socks Do Shakespeare	Colouring Books