Yorkshire on Saturday 12 April 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 12 April 0627: In a triumph for his Kentish wife, Edwin of Northumbria is baptised on Easter Sunday by Paulinus, in the latter’s wooden oratory on the site of York Minster
- 12 April 1706: The first four-day stagecoaches from York to London and vice versa depart from the Black Swan in each city
- 12 April 1875: The Times tells how the ventilation tubes patented by Martin Tobin, a retired Leeds merchant, have ended air pollution in the borough’s police court
- 12 April 1924: The Bloomsbury Group’s Amabel Williams-Ellis finds little art for art’s sake in Leeds
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:05-19:58, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 05:49 rise 19:46, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:09-20:03, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 05:54 rise 19:51, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:06-20:04, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 05:51 rise 19:51, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:10-20:02, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 05:54 rise 19:50, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:07-20:02, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 05:51 rise 19:49, waxing gibbous
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- £ Headingley Farmers’ Market
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