Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Friday 3 January 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

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: 08:15-15:56, zenith 12:05
  • Moon: rise 10:37 set 20:17, waxing crescent

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:20-16:00, zenith 12:10
  • Moon: rise 10:42 set 20:22, waxing crescent

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:24-15:55, zenith 12:09
  • Moon: rise 10:43 set 20:18, waxing crescent

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:18-16:02, zenith 12:10
  • Moon: rise 10:40 set 20:23, waxing crescent

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:19-15:57, zenith 12:08
  • Moon: rise 10:40 set 20:19, waxing crescent

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