Yorkshire on Monday 3 August 2026
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:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:17-20:57, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 11:07 rise 22:08, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:22-21:02, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 11:12 rise 22:13, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:17-21:04, zenith 13:11
- Moon: set 11:12 rise 22:10, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:23-21:00, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 11:11 rise 22:13, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:19-21:01, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 11:10 rise 22:11, waning gibbous
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