Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Friday 21 March 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Dean’t o’ Friday buy your ring,
O’ Friday dean’t put t’ spurrins [banns] in;
Dean’t wed o’ Friday. Think on o’ this,
Nowther blue nor green mun match her driss.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:58-18:18, zenith 12:08
  • Moon: rise 02:02 set 08:02, waning gibbous

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:03-18:23, zenith 12:13
  • Moon: rise 02:08 set 08:06, waning gibbous

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:01-18:22, zenith 12:12
  • Moon: rise 02:14 set 07:58, waning gibbous

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:03-18:22, zenith 12:12
  • Moon: rise 02:04 set 08:10, waning gibbous

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:01-18:21, zenith 12:11
  • Moon: rise 02:07 set 08:03, waning gibbous

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