31 December 1733: John Hobson reviews a pleasant but surprising December
John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:
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There has been very fair open weather this month; no frost or snow; some wind as warm as April; primroses sprung in the hedges; flowers in the garden; such a season has not been known in the memory of man.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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There has been very fair open weather this month; no frost or snow; some wind as warm as April; primroses sprung in the hedges; flowers in the garden; such a season has not been known in the memory of man.
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