Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Friday 11 July 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

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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