Yorkshire on Friday 21 November 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 21 November 1727: The funeral of Cornelius Wood of Barnsley, killed in a rabbit trap
- 21 November 1855: Catherine Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army, writes from Dewsbury of her hopes for her unborn child
- 21 November 1958: Norman Harding and fellow Trotskyite Labour Party members from East Leeds ambush their MP, Denis Healey, during a rigged live TV debate with his Tory neighbour, Keith Joseph
- 21 November 1972: Asphalt executive Walter Gott of Dringhouses, charged with speeding, pleads poetry before Market Weighton magistrates
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!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:37-15:57, zenith 11:47
- Moon: rise 09:34 set 15:46, waxing crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:42-16:01, zenith 11:52
- Moon: rise 09:40 set 15:50, waxing crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:44-15:56, zenith 11:50
- Moon: rise 09:45 set 15:42, waxing crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:40-16:03, zenith 11:51
- Moon: rise 09:36 set 15:53, waxing crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:41-15:59, zenith 11:50
- Moon: rise 09:39 set 15:47, waxing crescent
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