Yorkshire on Sunday 26 July 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 26 July 1699: Doncaster magistrates hear how Dr. Greene, a mountebank, assaulted those who sought to cancel his show
- 26 July 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth travels with brother William from Scarborough across the Wolds to Beverley and Hull
- 26 July 1827: Amid Nonconformist protests at a new church rate, payable by all Leeds to build temples for the Church of England, a Farnley man says organs are a waste of money
- 26 July 1858: Walter White finds ancient gloom in Shipley and new hope in Titus Salt’s Saltaire
- 26 July 1858: Walter White samples the nascent Brontë tourist industry at Haworth, but declines to buy photographs or visit the father
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:04-21:11, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 01:08 rise 20:01, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:08-21:16, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 01:13 rise 20:06, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:03-21:19, zenith 13:11
- Moon: set 01:04 rise 20:12, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:10-21:14, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 01:16 rise 20:02, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:06-21:15, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 01:09 rise 20:06, waxing gibbous
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