Yorkshire on Sunday 3 August 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 3 August 1846: Aged one month, Frances Jane Campbell becomes the latest Leeds victim of the opiate epidemic
- 3 August 1873: Eight years after the end of slavery in the United States, the Fisk Jubilee Singers sing spirituals in a crowded Hull street
- 3 August 1874: The mayor of Grassington addresses the humorist and miner Thomas Blackah and the other eight Pateley Bridge antiquarians during their summer outing around Craven
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:17-20:57, zenith 13:07
- Moon: rise 17:09 set 23:38, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:22-21:02, zenith 13:12
- Moon: rise 17:14 set 23:43, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:17-21:04, zenith 13:11
- Moon: rise 17:20 set 23:35, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:24-21:00, zenith 13:12
- Moon: rise 17:11 set 23:46, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:20-21:00, zenith 13:10
- Moon: rise 17:14 set 23:40, waxing gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ☆ Feast of St Wilfrid, Ripon
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