Yorkshire on Sunday 11 January 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 11 January 1825: American comment on William Hirst of Leeds’s revolutionary and controversial labour-saving improvements to spinning and stubbing machines, patented today
- 11 January 1900: An explosion injures half the shift and kills four at the Leeds Steel Works, Hunslet
- 11 January 1906: Joseph Wright, Oxford professor of comparative philology and ex-donkey-boy for a Shipley quarry, discusses self-interest at the opening of Windhill Library
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:11-16:06, zenith 12:09
- Moon: rise 01:22 set 10:56, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:16-16:11, zenith 12:14
- Moon: rise 01:28 set 11:00, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:19-16:06, zenith 12:12
- Moon: rise 01:29 set 10:57, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:14-16:13, zenith 12:13
- Moon: rise 01:26 set 11:02, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:15-16:08, zenith 12:12
- Moon: rise 01:26 set 10:58, waning crescent
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