Yorkshire on Monday 16 February 2026
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:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:16-17:14, zenith 12:15
- Moon: rise 07:15 set 15:57, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:21-17:19, zenith 12:20
- Moon: rise 07:20 set 16:02, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:21-17:16, zenith 12:18
- Moon: rise 07:23 set 15:57, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:19-17:19, zenith 12:19
- Moon: rise 07:18 set 16:03, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:19-17:17, zenith 12:18
- Moon: rise 07:19 set 15:59, waning crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- Religion: Shrove Monday. Customs: Collop Monday – fried eggs served on collops (bacon) (Bedell 1847).
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