Yorkshire on Sunday 19 May 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 19 May 1147: An expedition leaves Fountains Abbey to found Barnoldswick (WR/Lancs), predecessor of Kirkstall Abbey, as told by one of the colonists
- 19 May 1804: A woman is sold for the second time at Leeds market
- 19 May 1812: An Anglican Whit walk encounters a Nonconformist one at “Briarfield” (Birstall), amid Luddites and wars with France and the US, in the imagination of Charlotte Brontë
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 04:50-21:05, zenith 12:57
- Moon: set 03:28 rise 16:35, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 04:54-21:10, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 03:33 rise 16:40, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 04:49-21:13, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 03:31 rise 16:40, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 04:56-21:08, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 03:33 rise 16:39, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 04:51-21:09, zenith 13:00
- Moon: set 03:31 rise 16:39, waxing gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Whit Sunday or Pentecost – descent of the Holy Spirit upon Mary and the Apostles in Jerusalem
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