Yorkshire on Friday 11 July 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 11 July 1787: Advertisement for The Commercial and Mathematical Academy, Hull
- 11 July 1829: A Leeds Mercury subscriber asks why Christians do not seek to refute the claims of the Rev. Robert Taylor and Richard Carlile’s “infidel home missionary tour”
- 11 July 1844: The botanist James Backhouse Jnr. and colleagues walk from Settle over Malham Cove, Gordale Scar and Arncliffe Clowder to Arncliffe
- 11 July 1858: In Whitby, Walter White buys a religious ballad printed at Otley and called ‘The railway to heaven’
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: 04:43-21:30, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 04:39 rise 22:28, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:47-21:35, zenith 13:11
- Moon: set 04:43 rise 22:33, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:41-21:39, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 04:36 rise 22:37, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:49-21:32, zenith 13:11
- Moon: set 04:46 rise 22:30, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:44-21:34, zenith 13:09
- Moon: set 04:40 rise 22:32, waning gibbous
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