Yorkshire on Sunday 6 December 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 6 December 1794: London painter Joseph Farington gets gossip from a pupil about colleague William Hodges’ visit to Walter Fawkes at Farnley Hall, some years before Fawkes met Turner
- 6 December 1811: Sydney Smith to John Murray on “the privileges of the North”
- 6 December 1828: Tombstone epitaph for Joseph Batty (32) of Mortonley, who today fell into a coal pit 75 yards deep
- 6 December 1853: The Rev. Heslop of Forcett (Richmondshire) writes in the old style to his protégé John Pick Allison regarding the death of the latter’s uncle, and suspicions of legacy-hunting
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:00-15:44, zenith 11:52
- Moon: rise 05:40 set 13:40, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:05-15:48, zenith 11:57
- Moon: rise 05:46 set 13:44, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:08-15:43, zenith 11:55
- Moon: rise 05:49 set 13:39, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:03-15:50, zenith 11:56
- Moon: rise 05:43 set 13:46, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:04-15:46, zenith 11:55
- Moon: rise 05:45 set 13:41, waning crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- Religion: Nicholas of Myra (Santa Claus) – children, sailors, repentant thieves, bringer of gifts.
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