The Day The Sun Went Out

Accounts of the 1927 solar eclipse as seen from Yorkshire and the Pennines.

by John Billingsley

June 29, 1927, saw the last total eclipse of the sun to be visible in England. Northern Earth editor John Billingsley's booklet goes into the social, folkloric and esoteric aspects of the eclipse experience then and now, and explains:

• how solar eclipses occur
• how past cultures have explained and responded to solar eclipses
• preparations leading up to the 1927 eclipse
• how different places experienced the eclipse
• personal experiences of the total eclipse, including psychic and end-worldist experiences

Illustrated and referenced, this is the only account available of the 1927 total eclipse of the sun, the first visible in Yorkshire since 1023 and the first visible in Britain since 1724!

Copies are available @ £2 inc. p&p from John Billingsley, Northern Earth, 10 Jubilee Street, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 5NP. Please make cheques payable to John Billingsley