Yorkshire on Tuesday 27 May 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 27 May 1576: The Elizabethan Ecclesiastical Commission at York prohibits performance of a Corpus Christi play at Wakefield
- 27 May 1730: John Hobson writes off two thirds of a £48 debt because the debtor has fled to Crayke (Easingwold) in the Liberty of Durham
- 27 May 1746: Advertisement for a cockfight featuring 86 roosters at Pocklington (East Riding)
- 27 May 1776: Samuel Hick, apprentice blacksmith, overcomes his pacifist leanings to rescue the Wesleyan Richard Burdsall from an Anglican assailant at York
- 27 May 1849: Scarborough on the last evening of Anne Brontë’s life, as told by Ellen Nussey
Proverbially:
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: 04:39-21:17, zenith 12:58
- Moon: rise 04:09 set 22:46, new moon
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:44-21:22, zenith 13:03
- Moon: rise 04:14 set 22:52, new moon
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:38-21:25, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 04:06 set 22:58, new moon
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:46-21:19, zenith 13:03
- Moon: rise 04:16 set 22:48, new moon
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:41-21:21, zenith 13:01
- Moon: rise 04:11 set 22:51, new moon
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