We want to hear from YOU: Britain is braced for an unprecedented heatwave with temperatures soaring - but we want to know what it was really like during 1976's famous heatwave.

The record for the hottest June temperature of 35.6C was set in 1976 in Southampton

26 June 1976: Paramedics are called out to over 40 fainting cases in Leeds, while overheating cars cause huge tailbacks

We want to hear from YOU: Britain is braced for an unprecedented heatwave with temperatures soaring - but we want to know what it was really like during 1976's famous heatwave.

The previous top temperature of 35.6C, set during the legendary ten-week heatwave, was surpassed when the mercury reached 36.1C in Gosport, Hampshire..

This week as high temperatures send Britons flocking to beaches, parks and beer gardens, thoughts turn to the most famous heatwave of all - the Summer of 1976.