Yorkshire Almanac 2026

« Yorkshire on Friday 2 October 2026 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

• 2 October 1800: Part of an obituary to Harry Rowe, Punch and Judy man, trumpeter at the Battle of Culloden and the York assizes, who died today, old and ill, in the York poorhouse
• 2 October 1815: Publican George Harwood, late of Beverley, announces his return to Hull and the White Horse, now the Black Horse
• 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:

Dean’t o’ Friday buy your ring,
O’ Friday dean’t put t’ spurrins [banns] in;
Dean’t wed o’ Friday. Think on o’ this,
Nowther blue nor green mun match her driss.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Red-letter days and other special events:

Religion: Leger – Bishop of Autun, eyes and tongue removed in interclerical dispute. Proverbs: [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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