Yorkshire on Sunday 4 May 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 4 May 1643: The Royalists take Rotherham and begin a search for the preacher John Shawe
- 4 May 1698: In intense cold and lacking fodder, farmers at Halifax feed gorse to their livestock
- 4 May 1807: Lord Milton welcomes 10,000 to his 21st birthday barbecue at Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, during his campaign to be elected MP for the Whigs
- 4 May 1818: At a Radical meeting at Lydgate (Saddleworth, WR/GM), Samuel Bamford proposes giving the vote to women
- 4 May 1913: Leonora Cohen, Hunslet’s window-breaking suffragette, tells a May Day meeting on Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, that arson will gain women the vote
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:16-20:39, zenith 12:58
- Moon: set 03:11 rise 11:13, first quarter
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:21-20:44, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 03:16 rise 11:18, first quarter
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:17-20:46, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 03:20 rise 11:13, first quarter
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:22-20:42, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 03:14 rise 11:20, first quarter
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:18-20:43, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 03:15 rise 11:15, first quarter
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Margaret Clitherow – Catholic martyr during the Reformation
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