Yorkshire on Monday 16 June 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday in the minster on a desperate day during the siege of York by Parliament and the Scots, Thomas Mace hears “the most remarkable singing of psalms anywhere in these our latter ages”
- 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday, Parliament and the Scots breach York’s walls and destroy monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower
- 16 June 1863: William Allison (12) travels from Coxwold to the circus at Easingwold, hoping to see Tom King, ‘The fighting sailor’
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:27-21:36, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 00:38 set 09:44, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:32-21:41, zenith 13:06
- Moon: rise 00:43 set 09:49, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:25-21:45, zenith 13:05
- Moon: rise 00:45 set 09:45, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:34-21:38, zenith 13:06
- Moon: rise 00:41 set 09:50, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:29-21:41, zenith 13:05
- Moon: rise 00:42 set 09:46, waning gibbous
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