Yorkshire on Friday 30 May 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 30 May 1415: A native God creates the first Yorkshireman and -woman in the York mystery plays
- 30 May 1705: Gloves, scarves and money are distributed liberally among attendees of the funeral of Waide Calverley
- 30 May 1809: Death of Samuel Peech, legendary coach proprietor, of the Angel Inn, Sheffield
- 30 May 1835: Alfred Austin, future poet laureate, “Banjo-Byron that twangs the strum-strum,” is born into rural splendour at Ashwood, 48 Headingley Lane, Leeds
- 30 May 1835: The (Tory-dominated) Leeds Corporation gives its assets to three cronies to prevent their being inherited by the new (Whiggish) town council created by the Municipal Corporations Act
- 30 May 1836: Albinia Chaloner becomes the last person to be interred in York Minster
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!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:36-21:21, zenith 12:58
- Moon: set 00:44 rise 07:21, waxing crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:41-21:26, zenith 13:03
- Moon: set 00:49 rise 07:26, waxing crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:35-21:29, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 00:55 rise 07:19, waxing crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:43-21:23, zenith 13:03
- Moon: set 00:46 rise 07:29, waxing crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:38-21:25, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 00:49 rise 07:23, waxing crescent
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