Now! Then! March 30

« Yorkshire on Sunday 30 March 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

30 March 1834: Anne Lister seals a surreptitious mock marriage with fellow-landowner Ann Walker during the Easter Sunday service at Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York
30 March 1850: The Independent quotes from a public health report on the old churchyard of what is now Sheffield Cathedral
30 March 1856: Future prime minister H.H. Asquith (3) and his brother lead a procession of children through the streets of Morley to celebrate the end of the Crimean War
30 March 1866: On Good Friday, lost northwest of Jan Mayen in the Arctic Ocean and battered by old sea ice in a terrible gale, the crew of the whaler Diana of Hull stoically awaits death

Proverbially:

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

Now!

Heavenly data for Hull:

Sun: 06:36-19:34, zenith 13:05
Moon: rise 06:48 set 21:36, waxing crescent

Heavenly data for Leeds:

Sun: 06:41-19:39, zenith 13:10
Moon: rise 06:53 set 21:41, waxing crescent

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

Sun: 06:39-19:39, zenith 13:09
Moon: rise 06:50 set 21:43, waxing crescent

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

Sun: 06:41-19:39, zenith 13:10
Moon: rise 06:54 set 21:40, waxing crescent

Heavenly data for York:

Sun: 06:39-19:38, zenith 13:08
Moon: rise 06:51 set 21:40, waxing crescent

Red-letter days and other special events:

✝ Laetare Sunday – “Rejoice ye with Jerusalem; and be ye glad for her, all ye that delight in her: exult and sing for joy with her, all ye that in sadness mourn for her; that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations” ! Mother’s Day, following Catholic, non-US tradition ! Clocks go forward 1 hour at 01:00

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