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 Tuesday 4 March 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:39-17:46, zenith 12:12
  • Moon: rise 07:56, waxing crescent

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:44-17:51, zenith 12:17
  • Moon: rise 08:01, waxing crescent

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:44-17:48, zenith 12:16
  • Moon: rise 07:56, waxing crescent

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:43-17:51, zenith 12:17
  • Moon: rise 08:02, waxing crescent

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:42-17:49, zenith 12:15
  • Moon: rise 07:58, waxing crescent

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Shrove Tuesday ! Pancake Tuesday bells in Bingley, Richmond and Scarborough ! Pancakes cooked in bacon fat from yesterday (Bedell 1847) ! Scarborough Shrovetide Skipping Festival 🗩 It’s unlucky ta go abaght borrain a fryinpan a pancake Tuesday (Rogers 1855)

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