Yorkshire on Thursday 3 July 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 3 July 1643: The Royalists take Bradford after the Second Siege, but are warned off massacring the inhabitants by a ghost
- 3 July 1761: John Wesley visits an unjustly bankrupted Yarm liquor smuggler in York Castle
- 3 July 1769: Thomas Pennant goes bird-watching at Flamborough Head
- 3 July 1816: Emilia Monteiro (15) of Lisbon dies in the French refugee convent at Heath Old Hall, Wakefield, and is commemorated by a local Liberal doggerelist
- 3 July 1837: The Swan, a Hull whaler, returns from the dead (the ice of the Davis Strait) bearing three whales
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 04:34-21:36, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 00:22 rise 14:21, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 04:39-21:41, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 00:27 rise 14:26, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 04:33-21:45, zenith 13:09
- Moon: set 00:25 rise 14:27, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 04:41-21:38, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 00:27 rise 14:25, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 04:36-21:40, zenith 13:08
- Moon: set 00:25 rise 14:24, waxing gibbous
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