I was 9 years old and in Hastings watching in awe

I've got this on both vhs & dvd, brings back memories, and, quoting VHS, it does show my age!!!

I was on a P&O ferry mid channel where we had clear skies, I was very lucky, right time right place along line of totality. Had three pints before totality, never forget the experience.

My wife and i came together in a car park for the first time on this day...... i have not seen light since 😂

Thanks for posting. I saw this on CNN in the US, Richard Blystone was in England and Leon ? was hosting back from Newsdesk back here. I was very excited and now the US is getting ready for the total eclipse next summer. I cant wait.

Just to add watching this 21 years later just how absolutely gorgeous phillipa forrester was .

'Now seen for the first time in Britain in more than 70 years, and l-i-ve from Cornwall.' no signal detected

I actually remember Michael Buerk making that slight error right at the start!

Cheers mate...been looking for this programme in it's full length...remember watching this live and laughing at the cock-up at the beginning lol.

Thanks for posting! I remember this when it was on TV

I wish I could find the footage from this eclipse where one could see the shadow of the moon traveling across the sea. It was extraordinary.

i came here to watch the eclipse... but got distracted by how bangable philippa was throughout the whole thing ;) :P

I remember Patrick Moore being really pissed off because it was really cloudy in Falmouth and he couldn't see the corona or the diamond ring!

Amazing watching this as i was on that Beach and saw Phillipa and those owls, i was looking for myself the whole time but it wasn't quite 4k quality back then was it

Saw the actual eclipse down here in Cornwall that day, we were lucky.

I remember seeing this total eclipse it was absolutely stunning.

I was working at an Army Barracks and we were allowed to go out side and watch it! What an amazing Birthday gift! Everything went dark and The light started to come back. The light shown on a £1 coin. I was so skint! And I really fancied chocolate! That £1 coin bought me the best two choco bars of my life! I probs should have kept that pound lol

I went down to Dartmoor to watch it. it was crazy seeing the shadow crossing the distance .

Jeez 1999 was all high tech looks like 70s-80s

Now on B B C ONE Wales, seen for the first time in Britain in more than 70 years and live from Cornwall, one of nature's greatest spectacles a Total Eclipse presented by Michael Buerk. Vocals by Microsoft Sam. Most of the BBC Nations announcers declared their different scripts.

I was 6 years old and I was on a open top bus in Stratford upon Avon.

I still keep all my vhs tapes and digitalised many

38:01 Same with Telford where I am. in 1927 Telford got 98.75% blockage

At the time, I was in London and saw the partial eclipse.

Stood on Cape Cornwall ahead of a bicycle LEJOG and just like 500 other intrepid souls saw jack shit , OK it went eerily dark for 2 minutes but it goes dark every day for much longer , it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and good old Blightys' weather conspired to deprive us of this phenomenally rare natural event Sods law as i recall an hour later the sun came out ,Anyone planning to watch the next and only one in 21st century , the date is 23 rd September 2090 so if you're over 25 today sadly you've very likely once again to miss out , to quote Bob Dylan ,' blame it on a simple twist of fate' .

i was in a gazelle helicopter over the clyde during this eclipse, what a sight it was :)

From where I was living at the time of the August 11th 1999 eclipse I did see the partial eclipse (about 60% partial). I did have this programme recorded on tape only to later record another programme over the top. Although I missed the actual moment of the partial eclipse of March 20th 2015, as it was earlier in the morning, I did see the Moon's shadow. Sky News had a camera looking inland (and they showed it twice and in real time) and it was showing the Moon's shadow coming in. I guessed that it took at least 20 seconds to go from daylight to darkness, 2 minutes and 15 seconds during totality and another 20 seconds go from darkness back to daylight.

I was born in 2004 wish i saw that :(. 1990s are the good times

Back in the day when the Corona wasn't a virus or even a bottle of pop .

I believe that over where I was living at the time of the March 20th 2015 eclipse, it was about 80%. As I mentioned in my last post, I missed the actual moment of the partial eclipse but I did see the Moon's shadow. I did try the pinhole projection method to try and view the eclipse but with very little success whereas during the eclipse of August 11th 1999, I tried this method and had a clear image of the partial eclipse.

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Dr Mark Porter, Jamie Theakston *and* Philippa Forrester....just in case there was any doubt this was the 1990s...lol!!!!!

very sadly the Astronomer in the studio John Parkinson passed away in 2012

Twenty Three years ago to the minute......🌞+🌚

This is quaint isnt it. lm worried we will get Dara Ó Briain and Brain Cox for the America Eclipse

I swear I watched this or either itv show...

Nope crowd size looks about normal for August in Cornwall!

It’s 20 years ago.

Coming up for 22 years since this happened. What’s happened in your life since?

1hr41mins. Michael Burke. Say no more. 😄

28:30 Moon on a Stick

1:41:36 😂 #innuendo