Yorkshire on Friday 22 August 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 22 August 1138: King David of Scotland is overtaken near Northallerton by a furious local army in possession of a great standard: a Victorian view
- 22 August 1572: The head of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland and leader of the Catholic Rising of the North, is impaled on Micklegate Bar, York, where it stays for two years
- 22 August 1596: A lewd church parade at Cawthorne, Barnsley
- 22 August 1853: Leeds retailers agree to early closing – eight o’clock in summer and seven in winter
- 22 August 1876: The Sheffield Independent publishes a letter condemning “the blackguardism of the streets”
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: 05:51-20:17, zenith 13:04
- Moon: rise 04:25 set 20:13, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:56-20:22, zenith 13:09
- Moon: rise 04:30 set 20:18, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:52-20:22, zenith 13:07
- Moon: rise 04:25 set 20:19, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:56-20:20, zenith 13:08
- Moon: rise 04:32 set 20:16, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:53-20:20, zenith 13:07
- Moon: rise 04:27 set 20:17, waning crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Symphorian – children, eye problems, syphilis, for some the start of autumn
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