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 Sunday 22 June 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:28-21:38, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 01:44 set 18:41, waning crescent

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:32-21:43, zenith 13:08
  • Moon: rise 01:49 set 18:47, waning crescent

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:26-21:47, zenith 13:07
  • Moon: rise 01:44 set 18:50, waning crescent

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:35-21:40, zenith 13:07
  • Moon: rise 01:50 set 18:44, waning crescent

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:29-21:42, zenith 13:06
  • Moon: rise 01:46 set 18:46, waning crescent

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ St John Fisher – Beverley-born bishop executed by Henry VIII

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