Yorkshire on Saturday 20 June 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 20 June 1633: The Corporation of Hull issues the technical and commercial specifications for the construction of its new ‘Council House’
- 20 June 1681: A Leeds court hears of the enslavement by North African pirates of the son of Alderman Foxcroft
- 20 June 1795: The London painter Joseph Farington hears from a solicitor the details of the slavery-financed will of Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood and builder of Harewood House
- 20 June 1817: Lines spoken by the actor Alexander Cummins at the Leeds Theatre are enacted sooner than he might have wished
- 20 June 1825: The Wool Combers and Weavers Union of Bradford, meeting at the Roebuck Inn, signs off a poster condemning the anti-strike petition issued by the employers, meeting at the Sun
- 20 June 1881: John Tutin of Hull visits Hart-leap Well, the subject of Wordsworth’s anti-hunting poem
- 20 June 1887: An infant Arthur Ransome celebrates Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee at Wold Newton
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:27-21:38, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 00:27 rise 11:20, waxing crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:32-21:43, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 00:32 rise 11:26, waxing crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:25-21:47, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 00:32 rise 11:23, waxing crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:34-21:40, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 00:31 rise 11:26, waxing crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:29-21:42, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 00:30 rise 11:23, waxing crescent
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