BBC Total Eclipse End Credits, 11th August 1999

[dave46563]

@channel4squares aww dude...if there is any chance you could post up the opening title? if i remember it was some pretty cool graphics showing the earth and an eclipse. be real greatful if you could.

[swiggsy1994]

thumbs up if anyone is cornish and saw this

[herbal1971]

My friend and I had planned to drive to Land's End from Nottingham but she'd been drinking and we argued and so drove home after we'd gone about 4 miles. :))

I'd known about the eclipse happening since the early 80s so always wanted to be there for it. Thankfully, for me, it was cloudy so didn't miss it. I'll just have to travel further afield next time. :)

[EllenRebecca3]

Why does no one EVER hold the camera still while taking shots of this spectacle??!

[Moonsorrow84]

I saw it from Hastings!

[Scrabbler27]

I was at home in England when the Eclipse took place. I was 19. I taped it down on tape and I have still got it in my bedroom but never watch it. I'm keeping it forever for memory sake!

[lange838]

@Scrabbler27 That's pretty lucky cuz it happened on England that day

[kpbtm]

I was in Edinburgh, at the festival. Our company was given the morning off (we cancelled 2 shows, I think) to observe the eclipse.

We were standing on the Monument, and although I think that there was some cloud cover, I can definitely remember making out the shape of the moon encroaching on the sun's outlines through my "viewing filter" (actually my t-shirt, worked great).

Pretty remarkable.

[lerpwlambyth]

I've got this recorded on VHS somewhere. I remember Michael Buerk making an almighty cock-up right at the beginning of the programme, haha.

[Visonu]

I lived in Huddersfield but we didn't get this eclipse

[SonicGeneration]

that makes no sense. i live in leeds and i saw this eclipse.

[dave46563]

Does anyone have the start or the whole of this show??

[dave46563]

I remember this. I had finished my GCSE exams a few weeks before and I was chilling out in the garden ready for college in September. I live in Swansea and we had about 96% totality on the south coast of Wales. I'll never forget it.

[kimosaaaabe]

i was relaxing outside waiting for a job interview, not quite totallity, weird....

[rossgunn10]

god i remember this was in glasgow in scotland think we had about 70 percent totality there was scary tho as it got quite cold and early will remember it tho once in lifetime experiance they say

[Thesurus02]

I was riding my bike when it happened. It was a sunny day but then everything started going dark. I marveled at the sight but also a bit scared because I thought the weirdos were lurking about at the time so I raced back home. Still it was marvelous. I wish I had a camera :)

[RobinCarmody]

Of course, Westcountry (a few weeks away from *that* rebranding) did their own coverage as an optout and tried to interest the network in it, but they didn't succeed seeing how the BBC would be covering it at exactly the same time (although apparently Network Centre said sorry after seeing their coverage).

Where I lived and live (Dorset coast) it was almost but not quite total, and I had the Applemask-esque experience of ravens dramatically flying past like it was Moondial or something.

[Halfbricktv2]

I remember this iconic day clearly. It was still the summer holiday's and me and my friend were lying out my back garden watching it.

[Applemask]

I experienced it in my garden. It was great, birds were flying around going WHAT THE HELL, the cat was standing on the shed and yowing her head of and the dog was just running around looking for the sun.

[dacrlit]

My dad has just informed me that we were nearer Menherion.

[dacrlit]

I was near Carn Brea, when the Total Ecilpse happened.