Yorkshire on Sunday 28 December 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 28 December 1642: Four months into the Civil War, the Puritan John Shawe of Rotherham preaches iconoclasm at St. Mary’s, Beverley
- 28 December 1872: The tower of St Peter’s, Earlsheaton (Dewsbury), rings a true peal of Kent treble bob major (16,608 changes) in 9 hours 50 minutes, setting a new national record
- 28 December 1886: James Lonsdale Broderick (45) makes his final journey, from Hawes over Buttertubs Pass to a grave above the family farm near Crackpot (Swaledale)
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:16-15:49, zenith 12:02
- Moon: set 00:36 rise 11:38, waxing gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:21-15:53, zenith 12:07
- Moon: set 00:42 rise 11:43, waxing gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:24-15:48, zenith 12:06
- Moon: set 00:41 rise 11:40, waxing gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:19-15:55, zenith 12:07
- Moon: set 00:41 rise 11:43, waxing gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 08:20-15:51, zenith 12:05
- Moon: set 00:40 rise 11:41, waxing gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Massacre of the Innocents
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