Yorkshire on Sunday 16 February 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 16 February 1114: The morbidly obese Archbishop Thomas II of York ignores medical advice and dies chaste, unlike an 18th century successor
- 16 February 1789: Thomas Paine writes to Thomas Jefferson telling of the “revolutionary” iron bridge being built to his design by the Walkers of Masbrough (Rotherham)
- 16 February 1886: Clifford Allbutt explains to James Crichton-Browne why three years later he was to trade a lucrative medical consulting career in Leeds for a less well paid Commissionership in Lunacy in London
- 16 February 1909: Clifford Allbutt, supporting George Bernard Shaw’s proposal that medicine be socialised, gives a Yorkshire example of a physician drawn by vocation, not money
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:15-17:15, zenith 12:15
- Moon: set 08:22 rise 22:00, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:20-17:19, zenith 12:20
- Moon: set 08:26 rise 22:05, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:21-17:16, zenith 12:18
- Moon: set 08:24 rise 22:05, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:19-17:20, zenith 12:19
- Moon: set 08:27 rise 22:04, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:19-17:17, zenith 12:18
- Moon: set 08:24 rise 22:03, waning gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Septuagesima Sunday
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