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 Sunday 9 February 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 07:29-17:01, zenith 12:15
  • Moon: set 06:37 rise 12:46, waxing gibbous

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 07:34-17:05, zenith 12:20
  • Moon: set 06:42 rise 12:51, waxing gibbous

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 07:35-17:02, zenith 12:19
  • Moon: set 06:48 rise 12:42, waxing gibbous

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 07:33-17:06, zenith 12:20
  • Moon: set 06:38 rise 12:54, waxing gibbous

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 07:33-17:03, zenith 12:18
  • Moon: set 06:42 rise 12:47, waxing gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

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