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 Saturday 9 August 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:28-20:45, zenith 13:06
  • Moon: set 05:08 rise 21:05, full (grain) moon

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:33-20:50, zenith 13:11
  • Moon: set 05:13 rise 21:11, full (grain) moon

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:28-20:52, zenith 13:10
  • Moon: set 05:08 rise 21:12, full (grain) moon

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:34-20:48, zenith 13:11
  • Moon: set 05:15 rise 21:09, full (grain) moon

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:30-20:49, zenith 13:09
  • Moon: set 05:11 rise 21:09, full (grain) moon

Red-letter days and other special events:

    £ Headingley Farmers’ Market ☺ Blest be the day when Christ was born,/ We’ve getten mell [the last sheaf] of [X’s] corn,/ Well bun [bound] and better shorn./ Huzza, huzza, huzza! (Henderson 1866)

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Place-People-Play: Childcare (and the Kazookestra) on the Headingley/Weetwood borders next to Meanwood Park.

Music from and about Yorkshire by Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder.

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