Yorkshire on Friday 3 July 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 3 July 1643: The Royalists take Bradford after the Second Siege, but are warned off massacring the inhabitants by a ghost
- 3 July 1761: John Wesley visits an unjustly bankrupted Yarm liquor smuggler in York Castle
- 3 July 1769: Thomas Pennant goes bird-watching at Flamborough Head
- 3 July 1816: Emilia Monteiro (15) of Lisbon dies in the French refugee convent at Heath Old Hall, Wakefield, and is commemorated by a local Liberal doggerelist
- 3 July 1837: The Swan, a Hull whaler, returns from the dead (the ice of the Davis Strait) bearing three whales
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!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:34-21:36, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 08:02 rise 23:23, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:39-21:41, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 08:07 rise 23:28, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:32-21:45, zenith 13:09
- Moon: set 08:03 rise 23:29, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:41-21:38, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 08:08 rise 23:26, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:36-21:40, zenith 13:08
- Moon: set 08:05 rise 23:27, waning gibbous
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