Yorkshire on Friday 6 November 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 6 November 1628: Henry Best agrees rates with threshers at Elmswell (Driffield)
- 6 November 1667: Cottage smiths of cutlery, scissors, shears, sickles and swords around Sheffield lobby for the expansion of exemptions from the 1662 hearth tax
- 6 November 1786: William Butterworth of Leeds witnesses the “grand pageant” celebrating the demise in July of Duke Ephraim, Efik king of Old Calabar
- 6 November 1830: Bodysnatchers strike at Fulford, York
- 6 November 1903: Percy Broomhead fires his revolver at his neighbour’s house during a defamation dispute
- 6 November 1973: Baron Rhodes of Saddleworth (West Riding) recounts to the Lords a chat with a gamekeeper about the failure of the Tory PM Ted Heath to control the money supply
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: 07:09-16:20, zenith 11:44
- Moon: rise 03:54 set 14:52, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:14-16:25, zenith 11:49
- Moon: rise 03:59 set 14:57, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:15-16:21, zenith 11:48
- Moon: rise 03:59 set 14:54, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:12-16:26, zenith 11:49
- Moon: rise 03:58 set 14:58, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:12-16:23, zenith 11:47
- Moon: rise 03:57 set 14:55, waning crescent
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