Yorkshire on Friday 30 January 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 30 January 1410: Henry IV acts against salmon poaching in Yorkshire
- 30 January 1650: Alderman Hoyle of York hangs himself at Westminster on the first anniversary of Charles I’s execution, inspiring John Cleveland to verse
- 30 January 1709: Charles Boswell, king of the gypsies, is buried at Rossington, Doncaster
- 30 January 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells her old schoolmistress, Margaret Wooler, that Emily’s railway investment strategy may be unsustainable
- 30 January 1934: The wife of the Vicar of Weston, near Otley, has a nocturnal premonition of the death of the composer Frederick Delius
- 30 January 1978: A Cumbrian Evensong is rescheduled to accommodate All Creatures Great and Small
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: 07:48-16:40, zenith 12:14
- Moon: set 06:51 rise 13:01, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:53-16:45, zenith 12:19
- Moon: set 06:56 rise 13:05, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:55-16:41, zenith 12:18
- Moon: set 07:02 rise 12:57, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:51-16:46, zenith 12:19
- Moon: set 06:52 rise 13:09, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:52-16:43, zenith 12:17
- Moon: set 06:56 rise 13:02, waxing gibbous
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