Yorkshire on Sunday 8 June 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 8 June 0793: Alcuin of York, a leading figure in the Carolingian Renaissance, reflects in a poem on the devastation this day of Lindisfarne by Vikings
- 8 June 1561: A York official explains why textile manufacturing has left his city for the West Riding
- 8 June 1646: As the First English Civil War draws to a close, Mrs Eyre rages at Mr for criticising her clothes
- 8 June 1679: At death’s door, Brian Bentley, the Halifax Poet, refuses a cap unless it be a barley-cap
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 04:29-21:31, zenith 13:00
- Moon: set 02:34 rise 19:08, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 04:34-21:36, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 02:38 rise 19:13, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 04:28-21:40, zenith 13:04
- Moon: set 02:34 rise 19:17, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 04:36-21:33, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 02:40 rise 19:11, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 04:31-21:35, zenith 13:03
- Moon: set 02:36 rise 19:12, waxing gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Whit Sunday or Pentecost – descent of the Holy Spirit upon Mary and the Apostles in Jerusalem
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