Yorkshire on Sunday 29 September 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 29 September 1513: Black humour in a report to Venice regarding the arrival at York of the body of James IV of Scotland after Flodden
- 29 September 1684: It being Michaelmas, the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield (in song) deserts his beasts and pound and joins Robin Hood in the greenwood
- 29 September 1704: Deeds, conveyances, and wills in the West Riding must henceforth be publicly registered in Wakefield to be considered valid
- 29 September 1830: Tory Radical Richard Oastler writes that “free” white workers in the Bradford mills are worse off than their enslaved black counterparts in the colonies
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 06:58-18:44, zenith 12:51
- Moon: rise 02:55 set 18:04, waning crescent
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 07:03-18:48, zenith 12:56
- Moon: rise 03:00 set 18:09, waning crescent
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 07:02-18:47, zenith 12:55
- Moon: rise 02:55 set 18:10, waning crescent
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 07:03-18:48, zenith 12:56
- Moon: rise 03:01 set 18:07, waning crescent
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 07:01-18:46, zenith 12:54
- Moon: rise 02:57 set 18:07, waning crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Michaelmas, feast of the Archangel Michael, greatest of angels – associated with the transhumance of flocks down from summer pasture, the making of accounts after harvest
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