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Robin Leadbeater
Participant

Sadly eclipse day was cloudy, but Gigglewick got it!

As a girl of 7, my mother lived in rural Lancashire a few miles along the track from Giggleswick and recalled the 1927 eclipse. She remembered the chickens rushing back into the hen house thinking night had fallen !