Yorkshire on Thursday 6 November 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 6 November 1628: Henry Best agrees rates with threshers at Elmswell (Driffield)
- 6 November 1667: Cottage smiths of cutlery, scissors, shears, sickles and swords around Sheffield lobby for the expansion of exemptions from the 1662 hearth tax
- 6 November 1786: William Butterworth of Leeds witnesses the “grand pageant” celebrating the demise in July of Duke Ephraim, Efik king of Old Calabar
- 6 November 1830: Bodysnatchers strike at Fulford, York
- 6 November 1903: Percy Broomhead fires his revolver at his neighbour’s house during a defamation dispute
- 6 November 1973: Baron Rhodes of Saddleworth (WR/GM) recounts to the Lords a chat with a gamekeeper about the failure of the Tory PM Ted Heath to control the money supply
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:09-16:20, zenith 11:44
- Moon: set 08:54 rise 16:09, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:14-16:25, zenith 11:49
- Moon: set 09:00 rise 16:13, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:15-16:21, zenith 11:48
- Moon: set 09:04 rise 16:06, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:12-16:26, zenith 11:49
- Moon: set 08:56 rise 16:16, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:13-16:22, zenith 11:47
- Moon: set 08:59 rise 16:10, waning gibbous
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