Yorkshire on Friday 17 October 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 17 October 1688: York on the eve of the Glorious Revolution: “an archbishopric without a bishop, a city without a lord mayor, a garrison without a soldier”
- 17 October 1826: Rabbi Phillips of York writes to the Herald accepting an apology from the evangelical Jew-converter (and convert) Joseph Wolff for taking his name in vain
- 17 October 1887: John Hughlings Jackson, late of York, uses recollections of the minster to illustrate the double mental vision manifested by punsters
Proverbially:
Dean’t o’ Friday buy your ring,
O’ Friday dean’t put t’ spurrins [banns] in;
Dean’t wed o’ Friday. Think on o’ this,
Nowther blue nor green mun match her driss.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:31-18:01, zenith 12:46
- Moon: rise 02:42 set 16:50, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:36-18:06, zenith 12:51
- Moon: rise 02:47 set 16:55, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:36-18:04, zenith 12:50
- Moon: rise 02:43 set 16:55, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:35-18:07, zenith 12:51
- Moon: rise 02:47 set 16:54, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:34-18:04, zenith 12:49
- Moon: rise 02:44 set 16:54, waning crescent
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