It was 1999. I slept outside on the grass the night before, down at Lizard's Point. Where I was, the weather was also great and got a clear view of the eclipse which was fantastic.
I checked the family video, and it was actually fairly overcast on Dartmoor, with just some brief and tiny breaks in the cloud — enough to see the total eclipse, but not the sun's corona.
I suspect my dad would have been reluctant to drive all that way, but I'm glad he did.