Yorkshire on Friday 12 April 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 12 April 0627: In a triumph for his Kentish wife, Edwin of Northumbria is baptised on Easter Sunday by Paulinus, in the latter’s wooden oratory on the site of York Minster
- 12 April 1706: The first four-day stage coaches from York to London and vice versa depart from the Black Swan in each city
- 12 April 1875: The Times tells how the ventilation tubes patented by Martin Tobin, a retired Leeds merchant, have ended air pollution in the borough’s police court
- 12 April 1924: The Bloomsbury Group’s Amabel Williams-Ellis finds little art for art’s sake in Leeds
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!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 06:04-19:59, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 00:32 rise 07:21, waxing crescent
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 06:09-20:04, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 00:38 rise 07:26, waxing crescent
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 06:06-20:04, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 00:43 rise 07:18, waxing crescent
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 06:09-20:03, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 00:34 rise 07:29, waxing crescent
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 06:07-20:02, zenith 13:04
- Moon: set 00:37 rise 07:23, waxing crescent
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