Now! Then! August 20

« Yorkshire on Wednesday 20 August 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

20 August 1852: Leeds unveils a statue modelled by someone believed to resemble Robert Peel (RIP)
20 August 1915: The final letter to his father of Private Charles Langrick, 1st/5th Bn., The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment
20 August 1919: Two months after the Treaty of Versailles, the Daily News reports the arrival in a Sheffield garden of a balloon released by German POWs in Skipton

Now!

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

Sun: 05:52-20:26, zenith 13:09
Moon: rise 01:34 set 19:45, waning crescent

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Place-People-Play: Childcare (and the Kazookestra) on the Headingley/Weetwood borders next to Meanwood Park.

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Now! Then! is an almanac portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 936 historical serendipities (752K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,589 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,725 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, Horse, Bradford, poetry, Kingston upon Hull ... Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling and coding Now! Then! The Yorkshire Almanac at bedtime to educate himself about his new home since moving from Hackney to Headingley in April 2021. It will soon be available in printed and e-book editions. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

Toutes ces choses sont passées/ Comme l'ombre et comme le vent: se non è vero, è ben trovato.

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