Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Sunday 6 April 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:19-19:47, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: set 04:47 rise 12:05, waxing gibbous

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:24-19:52, zenith 13:08
  • Moon: set 04:52 rise 12:09, waxing gibbous

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:21-19:52, zenith 13:07
  • Moon: set 04:56 rise 12:03, waxing gibbous

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:24-19:51, zenith 13:08
  • Moon: set 04:49 rise 12:12, waxing gibbous

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:22-19:51, zenith 13:06
  • Moon: set 04:51 rise 12:06, waxing gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Passion Sunday ☆ Carlin Sunday – grey peas softened in water and fried with pepper, salt and butter (Bedell 1847)

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