Yorkshire on Wednesday 1 January 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 1 January 1151: Monks from Fountains move into the half-finished mud predecessor of Meaux Abbey (ER), built for them by Count William the Fat
- 1 January 1680: The preacher Thomas Sharp compares New Year revellers in Leeds to the pagan Jews in Babylon
- 1 January 1726: Heavy snow stops the post and kills parson William Baines of Dronfield at Froggatt Moss
- 1 January 1735: Silkstone parish sends the presumably destitute James Lindly (7) as a servant to John Hobson in Dodworth
- 1 January 1845: Approaching death, the Rev. Samuel Redhead, Vicar of Calverley (Bradford) writes in his diary of his hopes for the year
- 1 January 1873: Sophia Constable (11) is given a 51-month custodial sentence for being party to the theft of a loaf from Francis Mackintosh at Whitby
- 1 January 1891: Eleven snowflake girls are burnt to death during a school entertainment at Upper Wortley (Leeds)
- 1 January 1916: A newly published New Year’s Day first-foot verse tells Yorkshire readers that God helps those who help themselves
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:16-15:53, zenith 12:05
- Moon: rise 10:02 set 17:17, waxing crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:21-15:58, zenith 12:09
- Moon: rise 10:08 set 17:22, waxing crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:24-15:52, zenith 12:08
- Moon: rise 10:12 set 17:15, waxing crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:18-16:00, zenith 12:09
- Moon: rise 10:04 set 17:24, waxing crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:20-15:55, zenith 12:08
- Moon: rise 10:07 set 17:19, waxing crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Circumcision of Jesus ! New Year’s Day 🗩 Heave a si, shed a tear,/ Fer heze gone hez t’oade ‘ear,/ Yes heze fled, fled fer ivver,/ Ta return ah nivver, na nivver,/ Nivver, Nivver./ Bud throo his deth yan cums to life,/ An’ may hiz days be’y free fra strife;/ May ills be’y wi’ him nivver,/ Bud peace and joy fer ivver,/ Ivver, Ivver (Blackah 1874)
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