Yorkshire on Saturday 19 October 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 19 October 1715: Abraham Sharp of Halifax fears for the fate of his scientific instruments
- 19 October 1775: Mayor Joseph Outram lays the first stone of Hull’s first dock and customs quay, dooming the town’s walls and commencing its great expansion
- 19 October 1808: William Perigo of Bramley finds that Mary Bateman defrauded him in promising to cure his wife Rebecca’s palpitations, and suspects she died of poisoning
- 19 October 1816: Serenaded by the military, decorated barges leave Leeds for Liverpool to celebrate the completion, after almost 50 years, of the canal uniting east and west
- 19 October 1909: Opening a nurses’ home in Dewsbury, Clifford Allbutt describes their colleagues in the Leeds fever hospital in the 1860s
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 07:35-17:56, zenith 12:46
- Moon: set 10:44 rise 18:20, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 07:40-18:01, zenith 12:51
- Moon: set 10:50 rise 18:24, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 07:40-17:58, zenith 12:49
- Moon: set 10:53 rise 18:18, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 07:39-18:02, zenith 12:50
- Moon: set 10:47 rise 18:27, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 07:38-17:59, zenith 12:49
- Moon: set 10:49 rise 18:21, waning gibbous
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