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 Friday 2 May 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Dean’t o’ Friday buy your ring,
O’ Friday dean’t put t’ spurrins [banns] in;
Dean’t wed o’ Friday. Think on o’ this,
Nowther blue nor green mun match her driss.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Heavenly data for Hull:

  • Sun: 05:20-20:35, zenith 12:58
  • Moon: set 02:12 rise 08:22, waxing crescent

Heavenly data for Leeds:

  • Sun: 05:25-20:40, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: set 02:18 rise 08:27, waxing crescent

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

  • Sun: 05:21-20:42, zenith 13:01
  • Moon: set 02:24 rise 08:19, waxing crescent

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

  • Sun: 05:26-20:39, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: set 02:14 rise 08:30, waxing crescent

Heavenly data for York:

  • Sun: 05:22-20:39, zenith 13:01
  • Moon: set 02:17 rise 08:24, waxing crescent

Red-letter days and other special events:

    🗩 [To anyone in Skipton calling another a gosling (fool):] May Day’s past and gone,/ Thou’s a gosling and I’m none (Hone 1827)

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