Yorkshire on Tuesday 15 April 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 15 April 1729: John Hobson of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), pessimist, believes he is about to die
- 15 April 1779: The actor John Kemble asks a society girl to be quiet during a death scene at York and is hounded by the North Riding Militia
- 15 April 1924: Writing to The Lancet, Clifford Allbutt tells how a nursing hack eliminated (typhoid) thromboses in the Leeds fever hospital in the 1860s
- 15 April 1985: Hervey Rhodes tells his fellow lords how, on the abolition of the Ridings in 1974, Saddleworth was lost to Greater Manchester
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:58-20:04, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 06:18 rise 23:35, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:02-20:09, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 06:23 rise 23:40, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:59-20:10, zenith 13:04
- Moon: set 06:17 rise 23:44, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:03-20:08, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 06:25 rise 23:37, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:00-20:08, zenith 13:04
- Moon: set 06:20 rise 23:39, waning gibbous
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