Yorkshire on Sunday 13 October 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 13 October 1769: The poet Thomas Gray walks from Malham (“Maum”) to Gordale Scar and is horrified at the sight
- 13 October 1855: The Mercury publishes a letter from a chemist claiming that Leeds’s bakers adulterate their bread with a poisonous whitener
- 13 October 1863: After a long and acrimonious strike, Henry Briggs, co-owner of Methley Junction Colliery, receives a letter
- 13 October 1967: Barbara Castle visits the M62 construction site and ponders regional development via road-building
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 07:24-18:10, zenith 12:47
- Moon: set 01:07 rise 17:04, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 07:29-18:15, zenith 12:52
- Moon: set 01:12 rise 17:09, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 07:29-18:12, zenith 12:51
- Moon: set 01:06 rise 17:11, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 07:28-18:15, zenith 12:51
- Moon: set 01:13 rise 17:07, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 07:27-18:13, zenith 12:50
- Moon: set 01:09 rise 17:08, waxing gibbous
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