Yorkshire on Monday 14 December 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 14 December 1832: On election day following passage of the Reform Act, the magistrate Thomas Bosville has troops fire on radical rioters outside the Tontine Inn, Sheffield, killing five
- 14 December 1866: At quarter to five in the morning, the signal bell rings and a voice calls out from the depths of Oaks Colliery (Barnsley), tomb to 361 men and boys in the last day and a half
- 14 December 1892: Experts tell the High Court that electromagnetic interference from Leeds’s 1891 overhead electric tramway to Roundhay – the nation’s first – has brought down the local telephone service
- 14 December 1926: 11 days after Agatha Christie’s disappearance, her (adulterous) husband and the police find her concealed in plain sight at the Harrogate Hydropathic
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:09-15:42, zenith 11:55
- Moon: rise 11:27 set 21:10, waxing crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:14-15:47, zenith 12:00
- Moon: rise 11:32 set 21:15, waxing crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:17-15:41, zenith 11:59
- Moon: rise 11:34 set 21:11, waxing crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:11-15:49, zenith 12:00
- Moon: rise 11:31 set 21:16, waxing crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:13-15:44, zenith 11:58
- Moon: rise 11:31 set 21:12, waxing crescent
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