Now! Then! June 15

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Then!

Yorkshire in history:

15 June 1635: The administration of warrants by the Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby, “the best JP in the land”
15 June 1795: An advert on a chimney sweep’s door at Easingwold
15 June 1876: Henry Taylor, a builder, appears before the Leeds police court charged with three violations of the building byelaws

Proverbially:

Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

Sun: 04:27-21:36, zenith 13:01
Moon: rise 00:23 set 08:18, waning gibbous

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

Sun: 04:32-21:41, zenith 13:06
Moon: rise 00:28 set 08:23, waning gibbous

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

Sun: 04:25-21:45, zenith 13:05
Moon: rise 00:31 set 08:17, waning gibbous

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

Sun: 04:34-21:38, zenith 13:06
Moon: rise 00:25 set 08:25, waning gibbous

York, on earth and in heaven:

Sun: 04:29-21:40, zenith 13:04
Moon: rise 00:27 set 08:20, waning gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

✝ Trinity Sunday ! Father’s Day in the UK and other US-influenced countries – see also 19 March

Entries for Trinity Sunday:

16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday, Parliament and the Scots breach York’s walls and destroy monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower

16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday in the minster on a desperate day during the siege of York by Parliament and the Scots, Thomas Mace hears “the most remarkable singing of psalms anywhere in these our latter ages”

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Now! Then! is an almanac portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 941 historical serendipities (756K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,605 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,772 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, Bradford, Horse, poetry, Kingston upon Hull ... Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling and coding Now! Then! The Yorkshire Almanac at bedtime to educate himself about his new home since moving from Hackney to Headingley in April 2021. It will soon be available in printed and e-book editions. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

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