Yorkshire on Tuesday 26 August 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 26 August 1600: Following the Restoration, powerful local Catholics invade the Hackness (Scarborough) home of Sir Thomas Hoby, Puritan commissioner and newcomer
- 26 August 1693: Thomas Sharp, a Leeds nonconformist minister, finds some dying words for his wife
- 26 August 1822: Tragedy interrupts the first day of a great cricket match between 15 Sheffield and 11 Nottingham men in the new ground at Darnall (Sheffield)
- 26 August 1914: From Pontefract to the mines on the Franco-Belgian border: Cpl. Frederick William Holmes wins a VC at Le Cateau
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:58-20:07, zenith 13:03
- Moon: rise 09:45 set 20:46, waxing crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Water level in Meanwood Beck at Monk Bridge: 0.29m (within normal range, highest recorded level 1.93m on 6 May 2024) (EA)
- Sun: 06:03-20:12, zenith 13:07
- Moon: rise 09:50 set 20:51, waxing crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:59-20:13, zenith 13:06
- Moon: rise 09:50 set 20:48, waxing crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:03-20:11, zenith 13:07
- Moon: rise 09:50 set 20:51, waxing crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:00-20:11, zenith 13:06
- Moon: rise 09:49 set 20:49, waxing crescent
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