No air conditioning or chilled drinks cabinets, the British people had to think of more inventive ways to cool down...
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| 1st July 1913: Men cover their heads with newspapers to protect them from the summer sun. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) |
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| August 1919: London schoolboys relax in the park during a heatwave. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) |
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| 20th September 1926: A group of friends cooling off in Mill Weir, Berkshire during a heat wave. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) |
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| August 1930: A water cart man turns the water main on a group of boys to help them cool off in a street in Westminster, London during a heatwave. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) |
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| 19th August 1932: A bus conductor wipes the sweat from his face as he climbs the stairs to collect fares from the top deck of his bus in Trafalgar Square during a heat wave. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) |
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| July 10, women on Blackpool promenade during a heatwave. One wears a divided skirt and the other a straight skirt, both over swimwear. The middle one has a ‘copy’ of the Letty Lynton dress made popular by Joan Crawford in the film of that name. Adapted for the mass market the triple row of frills at the hem are matched by frills at the shoulder forming cap sleeves. (Photo by E Dean/Getty Images) |
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| August 26, 1933. A group of people take refuge from the heatwave with a hose-pipe shower in their garden pond, Streatham, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) |
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| circa 1935: A bus driver and conductor stop for a water break during a heatwave in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) |
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| 1935. A group of children having a hose-down from firemen during a heatwave in London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
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| 27th July 1935: Pupils have a lesson in the open air in the shade of a tree at Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, during a spell of hot weather. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) |
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| circa 1935: Typists working on a Cardiff roof-top during a heatwave. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) |
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| 23rd July 1936: Welsh quarrymen work in their vests during a heatwave in Abercarn, Monmouthshire. (Photo by Richards/Fox Photos/Getty Images) |
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| June 1936: A worker distributing blocks of ice for the Pure Ice company during a heatwave. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) |
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| 29th August 1936: St John’s Ambulancemen handing out oatmeal drinks in the heat at the football match between West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur at Upton Park. (Photo by E. Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) |
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| A teenage girl cooling off in the Serpentine during the Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park, London, 5th July 1969. (Photo by Reg Burkett/Express/Getty Images) |
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