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Twins

Picture of twin lambs in a field in Yorkshire.

Travelling by bus as I sometimes do recently has one advantage over doing the trip in my car, I get to see over walls.

On my journey this morning I saw a field with some quite young lambs with their mothers in it. On the return journey I hopped off the bus in the middle of the trip and snapped a few shots over the wall of the nearest lambs.

I am not very good at telling the different breeds of sheep that can be found on the farms and fields across Yorkshire but I will ask the next farmer I encounter.

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St Oswalds Church Yorkshire Redux

This is a view through the gate to the parish church of St Oswalds in Collingham, Yorkshire.

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Canal Barge at Saltaire, Yorkshire

Canal Barge at Saltaire, Yorkshire.

Very interesting but…. There is something interesting….

Drusilla, Ferret…

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BBC South Riding – Made in Yorkshire

Picture of BBC South Riding Making of, filming in Saltaire, Yorkshire.

The BBC have made a new production of South Riding, the first episode was shown last night on BBC and is available to view on BBC iPlayer.

South Riding is a book by Yorkshire writer Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935). Diagnosed with Bright’s disease, the doctor gave her 2 years to live, Holtby put the rest of her energy into writing South Riding. Winifred Holtby died on 29 September 1935, aged 37, South Riding was published in March the following year and received high praise from the critics.

Over last summer the BBC were here in Yorkshire filming the new TV production of South Riding, starring Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Peter Firth, Douglas Henshall, Penelope Wilton and John Henshaw.

In the above photo you can see Anna Maxwell Martin preparing to run for the bus whilst pursued by a cameraman. This sequence like several others was filmed here in Saltaire, the village where I used to live.

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Anna Maxwell Martin in South Riding

Picture of Anna Maxwell Martin in South Riding.

I caught up with the lead actress in the current BBC costume drama South Riding set here in Yorkshire, Anna Maxwell Martin and she was kind enough to pose for my camera during a very short break from filming. I am pleased to say the the BBC in their wisdom gave the part of Sarah Burton, an idealistic young headmistress to Yorkshire born Anna Maxwell Martin.

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Kiplington in the South Riding

Picture of Kiplington in the South Riding of Yorkshire.

For those who may not know, the county of Yorkshire had three ridings, North, West and East. The South riding only exists in fiction and to confuse matters more it is actually based on East Yorkshire rather than the South.

That fiction is the novel South Riding by Winifred Holtby, South Riding is subtitled An English Landscape, and it is just that, a landscape made up of people. The Northern town of Kiplington does not exist except in that novel and the TV drama of the same name by the BBC.

Here in my home village was created a little piece of the fictional Kiplington, brought to life with street scenes like the one above, with extras stood outside the Kiplington Working Mens Club.

Can you spot the odd one out?