Yorkshire on Sunday 2 March 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 2 March 1665: A sighting of the northern lights at Northowram (Halifax) recalls the eve of the civil war
- 2 March 1797: Tombstone epitaph for George Wilkinson, village crier of Ecclesfield (Sheffield), who died today aged 94
- 2 March 1830: Leeds Corporation prosecutes its own waste contractors, Messrs Kelly, and a Woodhouse Moor landowner, who have been colluding in the illegal dumping of faeces
- 2 March 1867: Anthony Cogan, the (Irish?) keeper of a lodging house, nine pigs, and a donkey, appears before Leeds magistrates, despite the efforts of the Pig Protection Society
- 2 March 1867: Zachariah Barton, “a tall, sanctified-looking man,” appears before Driffield magistrates for “expounding the gospel”
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:44-17:42, zenith 12:13
- Moon: rise 07:32 set 21:34, waxing crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:49-17:47, zenith 12:18
- Moon: rise 07:36 set 21:40, waxing crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:48-17:45, zenith 12:17
- Moon: rise 07:34 set 21:40, waxing crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:48-17:47, zenith 12:17
- Moon: rise 07:37 set 21:38, waxing crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:47-17:45, zenith 12:16
- Moon: rise 07:34 set 21:38, waxing crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Quinquagesima Sunday ✝ Chad of Mercia ☆ Carnival Sunday ☆ Yorkshire regional brass band championships (Huddersfield)
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