Yorkshire on Friday 18 September 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 18 September 1831: William Wallett, an unemployed Hull clown, sets out to walk from Tickhill to Doncaster for the St Leger in home-made clothes
- 18 September 1858: The Spectator is bowled over by the new Leeds Festival chorus’s singing of the Messiah – “the music text-book of the West Riding”
- 18 September 1880: An elderly reader of the Leeds Mercury recounts in its children’s column a pre-1839 alternative to flogging in a one-room school
- 18 September 1904: Henry Ross of Sheffield kidnaps neighbour Jenny Whitnear’s youngest son and flees to New Jersey, but 30 years later everyone will have questions to answer
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: 06:38-19:12, zenith 12:55
- Moon: rise 15:48 set 21:44, first quarter
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:43-19:17, zenith 13:00
- Moon: rise 15:53 set 21:49, first quarter
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:41-19:16, zenith 12:59
- Moon: rise 15:59 set 21:40, first quarter
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:43-19:16, zenith 12:59
- Moon: rise 15:49 set 21:52, first quarter
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:41-19:15, zenith 12:58
- Moon: rise 15:53 set 21:45, first quarter
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