Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Wednesday 28 May 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:38-21:18, zenith 12:58
  • Moon: rise 04:53 set 23:57, waxing crescent

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:43-21:23, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 04:58, waxing crescent

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:37-21:27, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: rise 04:49, waxing crescent

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:45-21:21, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 05:01 set 23:59, waxing crescent

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:40-21:22, zenith 13:01
  • Moon: rise 04:54, waxing crescent

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Ascension Eve ! Planting of the Penny Hedge (Horngarth), Whitby

Entries for Ascension Eve:

  • 25 May 1870: An Ascension Eve performance for tourists of the Whitby Penny Hedge ritual

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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 941 historical serendipities (756K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,606 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,772 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, Bradford, Horse, 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.

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