Yorkshire on Sunday 5 May 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 5 May 1546: Sir Henry Savile invites William Plumpton to a cockfight at Sheffield between Derbyshire, Lancashire and … Hallamshire
- 5 May 1601: Margaret Hoby of Hackness (Scarborough) spends the day praising the Creator and pondering the grotesque defects of one of His creations
- 5 May 1732: William Lindley of Dodworth recalls how charcoal burners would cheat coal merchants at the time of the Restoration
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 05:14-20:41, zenith 12:57
- Moon: rise 04:21 set 17:13, waning crescent
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 05:18-20:46, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 04:26 set 17:18, waning crescent
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 05:14-20:48, zenith 13:01
- Moon: rise 04:24 set 17:18, waning crescent
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 05:20-20:44, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 04:26 set 17:18, waning crescent
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 05:16-20:45, zenith 13:00
- Moon: rise 04:24 set 17:16, waning crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Rogation Sunday – God is asked to bless crops and farmers, and the Headingley Gallimaufrians and others beat their parish bounds
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