Now! Then! October 2

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Then!

Yorkshire in history:

2 October 1800: Harry Rowe, Punch and Judy man, trumpeter at Culloden and the York assizes, dies in the York poorhouse
2 October 1880: The Leeds Mercury reproduces a typographical intemperance tree from the 1840s origins of the Band of Hope
2 October 1893: Clifford Allbutt, late of Leeds, now a Cambridge professor, explains to Yorkshire College medics why university life is superior to a purely technical education

Proverbially:

New mean, new mean, I hail thee,
This neet my true love for to see.
Not iv his best or worst array,
Bud iv his apparel for ivery day.
That I to-morrow may him ken
Frev amang all other men.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Heavenly data for Hull:

Sun: 07:04-18:36, zenith 12:50
Moon: rise 06:36 set 18:25, new moon

Heavenly data for Leeds:

Sun: 07:09-18:41, zenith 12:55
Moon: rise 06:41 set 18:30, new moon

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

Sun: 07:08-18:39, zenith 12:54
Moon: rise 06:40 set 18:28, new moon

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

Sun: 07:08-18:41, zenith 12:55
Moon: rise 06:41 set 18:30, new moon

Heavenly data for York:

Sun: 07:07-18:39, zenith 12:53
Moon: rise 06:39 set 18:28, new moon

Red-letter days and other special events:

✝ Leger – Bishop of Autun, eyes and tongue removed in interclerical dispute 🗩 [Farewell to tourists from London, who say:] Sell in May and go away, and come on back on St Leger’s Day

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