Social History Weather. Drought. Northamptonshire, England. pic: 5th July 1976. A young local girl puts her hand into the deep cracks in the dried-up Pitsford Resevoir, Northants, where the water level had dropped to danger point. The resevoir which supp

Social History, Weather, Drought, Northamptonshire, England, pic: 5th July 1976, A young local girl puts her hand into the deep cracks in the dried-up Pitsford Resevoir, Northants, where the water level had dropped to danger point, The resevoir which supplies over four million people in the East Midlands, was in one of the areas experiencing the worst drought in England in 300 years (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)