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# 12th August 2026: Solar Eclipse Special
- URL: https://www.paperweightmag.com/12th-august-2026-solar-eclipse-special/
- Published: 2026-08-16T10:02:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-16T10:02:22.000Z
- Description: Breathtaking images of crowds across Great Britain coming together to view the most complete solar eclipse since 1999.
- Author: Sunday Paperweight
- Tags: Darkroom

Usually *Darkroom* brings you the photograph of the week, as chosen by Paperweight's picture editors. The fragmented nature of our media makes shared cultural moments rarer and rarer, so this week, to celebrate the solar eclipse - and everyone coming together to see it - we've selected twelve of the best:

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The partial solar eclipse stage, seen from Stone in Staffordshire as crowds gathered on the Common to see the rare celestial phenomenon. Credit Ian Knight/Alamy Live News

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Waiting for the solar eclipse from Blackpool Beach, Lancashire. Credit: Kevin Walsh

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People gather in central London to watch the solar eclipse, using eclipse glasses and cameras, during the rare astronomical event. Credit: Martijn Heemstra

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People watching the solar eclipse at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, the first total solar eclipse visible over mainland Europe since 1999\. Credit Yui Mok/PA Images

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The grooms at a wedding watch the solar eclipse at Alpheton in Suffolk. Credit: Jordan Pettitt/PA Images

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A person uses a telescope and white card to watch the solar eclipse on Southend Observation Tower in Southend-On-Sea, Essex. Credit: Lucy North/PA Images

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A large group of revellers pack the summit of Glastonbury Tor in Somerset as they gather next to St Michael’s Tower. Credit: Graham Hunt

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People watching the solar eclipse at Westward Ho! Beach, North Devon. Credit: Mr Riley

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The partial solar eclipse from Crosby beach with Anthony Gormley’s **Iron Men* in the foreground. Credit: Dilantha Dissanayake/Alamy Live News

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People enjoy the solar eclipse on Primrose Hill on another hot day, in a year of many so far, in sunny weather as the latest heatwave builds up in London. It is the most complete solar eclipse since 1999 with a totality of around 90%. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News

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A group of friends enjoying the solar eclipse in their glasses. Hundreds of people gathered on the King's Steps to enjoy the partial solar eclipse in Margate, Kent. Credit: Krisztian Elek/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire.

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Crowds gathered in Oxford's South Park to view the solar eclipse, using special glasses, cooking colanders, and pinhole cameras made of cardboard boxes. Serious viewers took telescopes fitted with special solar filters. Credit: Rod Harbinson/ZUMA Press Wire.

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