Yorkshire on Friday 20 June 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 20 June 1633: The Corporation of Hull issues the technical and commercial specifications for the construction of its new ‘Council House’
- 20 June 1681: A Leeds court discusses the kidnapping by Barbary pirates of the son of Alderman Foxcroft
- 20 June 1817: Lines spoken by the actor Alexander Cummins at the Leeds Theatre are enacted sooner than he might have wished
- 20 June 1825: The Wool Combers and Weavers Union of Bradford, meeting at the Roebuck Inn, signs off a poster condemning the anti-strike petition issued by the employers, meeting at the Sun
- 20 June 1881: John Tutin of Hull visits Hart-leap Well, the subject of Wordsworth’s anti-hunting poem
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: 04:27-21:38, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 01:18 set 15:30, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:32-21:43, zenith 13:07
- Moon: rise 01:23 set 15:35, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:25-21:47, zenith 13:06
- Moon: rise 01:20 set 15:36, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:34-21:40, zenith 13:07
- Moon: rise 01:23 set 15:34, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:29-21:42, zenith 13:05
- Moon: rise 01:21 set 15:34, waning crescent
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