Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

« Yorkshire on Friday 31 October 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

• 31 October 1602: An ailing James Kendall of Grassgarth, Weston (Otley) makes his will
• 31 October 1674: Riding home to Pontefract from Wakefield fair, a sozzled Silvanus Rich enters the River Calder in flood at Wakefield bridge
• 31 October 1684: Mrs Taylor of Brighouse, a Quaker, is buried upright next to her husband and daughter in their garden
• 31 October 1967: First broadcast of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, on the At Last the 1948 Show

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!

Red-letter days and other special events:

✝ Begu – witnessed Hilda’s soul being borne to heaven by angels ☆ All Hallows’ Eve aka Halloween – soul cakes, vegetable candle-holders, costumed danses macabres

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