Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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Then!

Yorkshire in history:

• 20 December 1697: Disastrous flooding in the lower Don, caused by the failure of the colonist Cornelius Vermuyden’s land reclamation scheme to cope with snow-melt
• 20 December 1868: The Leeds authorities try to make Eliza Thurkill calmly admit she is dying so that, under English law, her hearsay statement may later hang her abortionist
• 20 December 1966: Greek-Cypriot cook and artist Stass Paraskos appears before Leeds magistrates charged with obscenity under the Vagrancy Act 1838

Proverbially:

New mean, new mean, I hail thee,
This neet my true love for to see.
Not iv his best or worst array,
Bud iv his apparel for ivery day.
That I to-morrow may him ken
Frev amang all other men.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Red-letter days and other special events:

🗩 The Headingley Gallimaufrians’s bestival of nine mummers and homophonic carols – And a mumming we will go, we’ll go,/ And a mumming we will go;/ We’ll face all sorts of weather,/ Both rain, cold, wet, and snow (Addy 1888)

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