Yorkshire on Friday 27 June 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 27 June 1669: The vicar of Morley fails to persuade the local JP to prevent Oliver Heywood speaking from his pulpit
- 27 June 1743: Tom Brown of Kirkleatham’s heroics against the French today at Dettingen (Bavaria) lead his general, George II, to grant him a silver prosthetic nose, immortalised in ballad and portrait
- 27 June 1778: Civil engineer John Smeaton reviews the construction for London Trinity House of two lighthouses on Spurn Point, eroding from seawards and growing southwards into the mouth of the Humber
- 27 June 1835: On the eve of municipal reform, the Leeds Mercury maps the self-electing clan that runs the Leeds corporation
- 27 June 1925: Tolkien on the increasing importance of language within Leeds’ English department during his readership in the early 1920s
- 27 June 1933: Norman Harding (4) of Burmantofts, Leeds, meets his baby brother, Keith, for the first time
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: 04:30-21:38, zenith 13:04
- Moon: rise 06:20 set 23:34, waxing crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:35-21:43, zenith 13:09
- Moon: rise 06:25 set 23:39, waxing crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:28-21:47, zenith 13:08
- Moon: rise 06:18 set 23:42, waxing crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:37-21:40, zenith 13:09
- Moon: rise 06:27 set 23:37, waxing crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:32-21:42, zenith 13:07
- Moon: rise 06:22 set 23:38, waxing crescent
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