Yorkshire on Friday 24 July 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 24 July 1761: Jonas Rushford (14) of Bradford tells a perhaps envious John Wesley how the Skipton magician Timothy Crowther helped him find a missing man
- 24 July 1766: Hats off for Jesus at Pateley Bridge
- 24 July 1771: Actor-manager Tate Wilkinson opens Puritan Leeds’ first proper theatre with comic impressions of leading Methodists
- 24 July 1926: “Leeds Corporation’s clean air strategy focuses too much on buildings and not enough on people”
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: 05:01-21:14, zenith 13:07
- Moon: rise 18:07, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:05-21:19, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 00:02 rise 18:13, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:00-21:22, zenith 13:11
- Moon: rise 18:18, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:07-21:17, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 00:04 rise 18:09, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:03-21:18, zenith 13:10
- Moon: rise 18:12, waxing gibbous
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