Yorkshire on Thursday 17 July 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 17 July 1785: Mr Strother, a York draper’s assistant, finds that diarising is not for common folk
- 17 July 1815: John Dunhill and William Bewell stand trial for their lives shortly after Waterloo, accused of the riotous demolition of a press-gang pub at 41, Humber Street, Hull
- 17 July 1844: Tory Radical Joshua Hobson tells Leeds council that Liberal mayor Hamer Stansfield was wrong to prohibit public meetings on the semi-privatised Kirkgate market
- 17 July 1849: Jane Carlyle witnesses civic Bradford protest the suppression by the French Second Republic of Garibaldi and Mazzini’s anti-clerical Roman Republic
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:51-21:23, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 13:15 rise 23:36, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:55-21:29, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 13:20 rise 23:41, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:49-21:32, zenith 13:11
- Moon: set 13:21 rise 23:38, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:57-21:26, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 13:19 rise 23:42, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:52-21:28, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 13:19 rise 23:39, waning gibbous
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