Yorkshire on Monday 19 August 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 19 August 1641: Henry Best of Elmswell (Driffield) begins to harvest mixed grain, and gleaners wait in the wings
- 19 August 1728: An elderly gamekeeper at Pilley recalls the extrajudicial execution of a Dodworth man on the orders of young Sir Francis Wortley during the Civil War
- 19 August 1767: The will of James Bean of Aldbrough (Holderness), proved today, frees and provides for his ‘mulatto’ daughter Nancie on Jamaica
- 19 August 1817: An encounter with John Oates of Halifax, autodidact optician
- 19 August 1826: The Leeds Mercury responds to requests from readers for cricket reports
- 19 August 1849: The last bull-baiting at Lydgate Wakes, Saddleworth
- 19 August 1931: Lawrence Ennis of Dorman, Long & Co. of Middlesbrough, producer of steel and bridges, supervises closure of the arch on Sydney Harbour Bridge
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 05:46-20:23, zenith 13:04
- Moon: set 04:43 rise 20:40, full moon
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 05:51-20:28, zenith 13:09
- Moon: set 04:48 rise 20:45, full moon
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 05:47-20:29, zenith 13:08
- Moon: set 04:42 rise 20:47, full moon
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 05:51-20:26, zenith 13:09
- Moon: set 04:49 rise 20:44, full moon
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 05:48-20:26, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 04:45 rise 20:44, full moon
Red-letter days and other special events:
- 🗩 Blest be the day when Christ was born,/ We’ve getten mell [the last sheaf] of [X’s] corn,/ Well bun [bound] and better shorn./ Huzza, huzza, huzza! (Henderson 1866)
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