Remember it well as a kid in the 6 weeks holiday .
Everyday it was 30 degrees for just about the entire summer holiday .
I can recall one of my jobs was to go and fill two buckets of water from the stand pipes every morning before disappearing for the day playing cricket with my mates .
We'd moved on to a proper corky by this time , soft balls were for kids and we were above that apparently .
Said corky was an oval shaped thing and had probably had around a thousand games under its belt at various levels of cricket , the seam had completely disappeared and the cherry was well on it's way to resembling a sort of brown colour .
No pads , no gloves , this was 1976 after all although we did have a decent bat given to us by a bloke who played for Darton and had bought a new one .
You needed bottle and application to keep your wicket on a baking hot uneven pitch , the truth is it could be a terrifying experience if some of the older lads were bowling .
My old man provided the wicket keeping clubs courtesy of the stores at work , thick boiler man's gloves , they were perfect for the job .
Happy days and not a computer in sight .