Yorkshire on Friday 21 February 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 21 February 1688: On Shrove-Tuesday, cock-throwing York apprentices break a Catholic window, and the militia intervenes, torturing citizens and violating their civic rights
- 21 February 1718: Elizabeth Hodgson and William Reeston are excommunicated in St. Augustine’s, Hedon for having an illegitimate child
- 21 February 1835: The Spectator summarises the respective preoccupations of Leeds’ Tory and Whig establishments – partying, and preventing implementation of the child labour provisions of the Factory Act
- 21 February 1853: Henry Warrass (14) dies like his fellow-Sheffielder, the infanticide Alfred Warrington
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: 07:04-17:24, zenith 12:14
- Moon: rise 03:05 set 09:30, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:09-17:29, zenith 12:19
- Moon: rise 03:11 set 09:35, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:10-17:26, zenith 12:18
- Moon: rise 03:16 set 09:27, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:08-17:30, zenith 12:19
- Moon: rise 03:07 set 09:38, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:08-17:27, zenith 12:17
- Moon: rise 03:10 set 09:31, waning crescent
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