Yorkshire on Sunday 19 October 2025
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 predecessors in the Leeds fever hospital in the 1860s
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:35-17:57, zenith 12:46
- Moon: rise 05:15 set 17:05, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:40-18:02, zenith 12:51
- Moon: rise 05:20 set 17:10, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:40-17:59, zenith 12:49
- Moon: rise 05:19 set 17:08, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:38-18:02, zenith 12:50
- Moon: rise 05:20 set 17:10, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:38-17:59, zenith 12:49
- Moon: rise 05:18 set 17:08, waning crescent
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