Yorkshire on Saturday 17 May 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 17 May 1321: Isabella Dayvill, apostate nun, is banished to suffer silence, hunger and punishment at Handale Priory (North Riding)
- 17 May 1602: Michael Steele of Skelton (York) complains to Star Chamber about the following comic playlet, alleging an adulterous affair with his maidservant, Francis Thornton
- 17 May 1823: “Doncaster fertiliser manufacturers imported more than a million bushels of skeletons from Waterloo and other Napoleonic battlefields in 1822”
- 17 May 1828: Joseph Pickles of Wilsden, a Methodist convert, dies, having partially recovered his sight, and helped produce 410 descendants
- 17 May 1833: A great storm is bad for Leeds’s horticulturists and good for its glaziers
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:53-21:01, zenith 12:57
- Moon: rise 01:29 set 07:45, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:58-21:07, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 01:35 set 07:50, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:52-21:09, zenith 13:01
- Moon: rise 01:40 set 07:42, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:59-21:04, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 01:31 set 07:53, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:55-21:06, zenith 13:00
- Moon: rise 01:34 set 07:46, waning gibbous
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