'We had fallen. There was no colour': Stirring words of Virginia Woolf when the UK experienced its first solar eclipse in more than 200 years in 1927 before Britons donned the glasses again in 1999

In 1927, the phenomenon was in full view for millions who either lived in or had flocked to a spot within the path of totality, which ran from Cardigan Bay in Wales to Hartlepool in the north-east.

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