Yorkshire on Monday 5 February 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 5 February 1643: Rioting locals reïnundate Hatfield Chase in protest at flooding and a loss of fishing and fowling caused by Netherlandish colonists and Cornelius Vermuyden’s land reclamation scheme
- 5 February 1649: The Puritan John Sharp of Bradford, on military service at Hull, writes passionately to his “cousin” at York
- 5 February 1691: Approaching 60, Oliver Heywood contemplates his place in the cosmos
- 5 February 1730: News that Cyril Arthington of Arthington Hall has drunk himself to death on the birth of his son and heir
- 5 February 1852: A local poet recounts the fate of some of his 81 neighbours drowned this morning in Holmfirth Flood through the miserliness of the mill-owners
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 07:38-16:51, zenith 12:15
- Moon: rise 04:33 set 11:00, waning crescent
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 07:43-16:56, zenith 12:20
- Moon: rise 04:38 set 11:04, waning crescent
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 07:45-16:52, zenith 12:18
- Moon: rise 04:43 set 10:56, waning crescent
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 07:42-16:57, zenith 12:19
- Moon: rise 04:34 set 11:07, waning crescent
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 07:42-16:53, zenith 12:18
- Moon: rise 04:37 set 11:01, waning crescent
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