Yorkshire on Friday 12 September 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 12 September 1680: Francis and Mary Huntrodes are buried together at St. Mary’s, Whitby with a poetic epitaph
- 12 September 1687: Installation of a bell at St Leonard’s, Thrybergh
- 12 September 1731: Edward Garner of Dodworth dies, perhaps the victim of his runaway horse
- 12 September 1856: Band-leader John Hope tells an inquest of the life and murder of his daughter, the dancer Jane Banham, by her ex-lover, a Mancunian tailor, at the Malt Mill Inn, Armley
- 12 September 1865: An unexpected gesture from Richard Scurr, watchmaker, at the Thirsk burial of John Pick Allison, solicitor
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!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 06:28-19:26, zenith 12:57
- Moon: set 13:22 rise 20:40, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 06:33-19:31, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 13:28 rise 20:45, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 06:31-19:31, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 13:32 rise 20:38, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 06:33-19:30, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 13:25 rise 20:47, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 06:31-19:29, zenith 13:00
- Moon: set 13:27 rise 20:41, waning gibbous
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