Yorkshire on Monday 19 October 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 19 October 1715: Abraham Sharp of Halifax fears for his scientific instruments
- 19 October 1775: Mayor Joseph Outram lays the first stone of Hull’s first dock and customs quay, dooming the town’s walls and commencing its great expansion
- 19 October 1808: William Perigo of Bramley finds that Mary Bateman defrauded him in promising to cure his wife Rebecca’s palpitations, and suspects she died of poisoning
- 19 October 1816: Serenaded by the military, decorated barges leave Leeds for Liverpool to celebrate the completion, after almost 50 years, of the canal uniting east and west
- 19 October 1909: Opening a nurses’ home in Dewsbury, Clifford Allbutt describes their predecessors in the Leeds fever hospital in the 1860s
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:34-17:57, zenith 12:46
- Moon: rise 15:50, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:39-18:02, zenith 12:51
- Moon: rise 15:55, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:39-17:59, zenith 12:49
- Moon: rise 15:58, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:38-18:03, zenith 12:50
- Moon: rise 15:53, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:38-18:00, zenith 12:49
- Moon: rise 15:54, waxing gibbous
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