"It was quite high in the sky so there was no hint of red.

That's not how it works. The red/brown colour when the moon is eclipsed is because it's still getting some light from the sun shining through the earth's atmosphere, and that's red light for the same reason we get red light at sunset. The higher in the sky the more noticeable the effect would have been, if anything.

If you saw the full eclipse - ie when the crescent of light had gone, then if you didn't see the whole moon as a brownish or reddish disc, that would have been because there was some cloud that was masking it, because there is not much light involved. Or it might have been the "light pollution" from street lights and city lights and so forth.

What we in England wouldn't have got, and what some other people might have, is the way that when the moon is blotted out, all the fainter stars, that had been masked by its light, suddenly pop out into view. But the "light pollution" does for that.