Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Sunday 27 April 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

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

New mean, new mean, I hail thee,
This neet my true love for to see.
Not iv his best or worst array,
Bud iv his apparel for ivery day.
That I to-morrow may him ken
Frev amang all other men.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:31-20:26, zenith 12:58
  • Moon: rise 05:06 set 20:34, new moon

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:35-20:31, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 05:11 set 20:39, new moon

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:32-20:33, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: rise 05:07 set 20:41, new moon

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:36-20:30, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 05:11 set 20:37, new moon

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 05:33-20:30, zenith 13:01
  • Moon: rise 05:08 set 20:38, new moon

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ The Octave of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, aka Low Sunday or Quasimodo

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Place-People-Play: Childcare (and the Kazookestra) on the Headingley/Weetwood borders next to Meanwood Park.

Music from and about Yorkshire by Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder.

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