Yorkshire on Monday 19 May 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 19 May 1147: An expedition leaves Fountains Abbey to found Barnoldswick (WR/Lancs), predecessor of Kirkstall Abbey, as told by one of the colonists
- 19 May 1804: A woman is sold for the second time at Leeds market
- 19 May 1812: An Anglican Whit walk encounters a Nonconformist one at “Briarfield” (Birstall), amid Luddites and wars with France and the US, in the imagination of Charlotte Brontë
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:50-21:05, zenith 12:57
- Moon: rise 02:17 set 10:30, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:55-21:10, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 02:22 set 10:35, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:49-21:13, zenith 13:01
- Moon: rise 02:25 set 10:29, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:56-21:07, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 02:20 set 10:36, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:52-21:09, zenith 13:00
- Moon: rise 02:21 set 10:32, waning gibbous
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