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 Thursday 24 April 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:37-20:21, zenith 12:59
  • Moon: rise 04:35 set 15:48, waning crescent

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Water level in Meanwood Beck at Monk Bridge: 0.29m (within normal range, highest recorded level 1.93m on 6 May 2024) (EA)
  • Sun: 05:42-20:26, zenith 13:04
  • Moon: rise 04:40 set 15:53, waning crescent

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:38-20:27, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 04:40 set 15:51, waning crescent

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:43-20:24, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 04:39 set 15:53, waning crescent

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:40-20:24, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: rise 04:38 set 15:51, waning crescent

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ! Mark’s Eve – young women walk round churches scattering seed and chanting “Hempseed I saw/ He that must my true love be,/ Come after me and maw,” whereupon their true love appears(Carr 1828)

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