Yorkshire on Friday 4 July 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 4 July 1604: The daily timetable for Cicely Sandys’ university at Ripon is approved today by Queen Anne of Denmark
- 4 July 1829: The first London buses commence service from the Yorkshire Stingo, New Road to Bank
- 4 July 1838: 26 girls and boys drown trying to escape via a tunnel from flash flooding in Huskar Colliery, Silkstone, Barnsley, after the steam lifts fail during a rainstorm
- 4 July 1858: Incipient water-baby Tom arrives at Malham Cove, discovered today by Charles Kingsley
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: 04:35-21:35, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 00:30 rise 15:36, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:40-21:41, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 00:35 rise 15:41, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:34-21:44, zenith 13:09
- Moon: set 00:32 rise 15:43, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:42-21:38, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 00:36 rise 15:40, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:37-21:40, zenith 13:08
- Moon: set 00:33 rise 15:40, waxing gibbous
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