Saturday, 28 January 2023
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?
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