Yorkshire on Thursday 25 December 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 25 December 1066: Archbishop Ealdred of York crowns William the Conqueror at Westminster, Archbishop Stigand of Canterbury being excommunicated
- 25 December 1866: Starving amidst Arctic ice, and with Captain Gravill on his deathbed, the crew of the Diana of Hull celebrate a “horrible mockery of the spirit of an English Christmas”
- 25 December 1916: I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and other carols and mummery
- 25 December 1923: Winifred Stansfield of Balby (Doncaster) gets her doll
- 25 December 1963: Tolkien recalls the genesis of Lúthien and Beren in 1919, as Edith danced amidst ‘hemlocks’ at Roos in Holderness
- 25 December 1985: The last Christmas of John Braine, Bradford-born author of the “angry young men” bestseller, Room at the Top
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:16-15:46, zenith 12:01
- Moon: rise 11:11 set 21:51, waxing crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:21-15:51, zenith 12:06
- Moon: rise 11:16 set 21:56, waxing crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:24-15:45, zenith 12:05
- Moon: rise 11:16 set 21:54, waxing crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:18-15:53, zenith 12:06
- Moon: rise 11:15 set 21:57, waxing crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:20-15:48, zenith 12:04
- Moon: rise 11:14 set 21:54, waxing crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Christmas Day ! Frumenty (hulled wheat boiled in milk, seasoned with cinnamon and sugar, and perhaps messed with fat venison or fresh mutton) and Yule-log (Bedell 1847) 🗩 I wish you a merry Kessenmas an’ a happy New Year,/ A pokeful o’ money an’ a cellar-full o’ beer./ A good fat pig an’ a new-cauven coo;/ Good maisther an’ misthress, hoo do you do? (Moorman 1916) 🗩 Now, seeing that players do not go abroad,/ Nor yet fine musicians we may not afford;/ Instead of both these, let our pastime and mirth/ Be ever rejoicing in our Saviour Christ’s birth (Kaye 1827) 🗩 [Sung by common folk on the streets after the Christmas Day service:] Ule, Ule, Ule, Ule,/ Three puddings in a pule,/ Crack nuts and cry “Ule” (Blount 1670)
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