![]() For five years, I wrote a story a week, an enjoyable task as the characters he had created were so real and alive and believable. John Cunliffe wrote all the books too, as well as a weekly Postman Pat story for the children’s comic, Buttons, but when the work became too demanding, I was called in to take over the weekly comic slot. There was Mrs Goggins who worked in the Post Office, the Reverend Timms, Granny Dryden and Ted Glen, the twins Katy and Tom Pottage and many more. The series was an immediate success and many children delighted in watching Postman Pat and Jess, his black and white cat, as they drove on their rounds in Greendale meeting the inhabitants. He first wrote about him in 1978 after a request from a BBC producer for a series for pre-school children set in the countryside. I was saddened to read of the death of John Cunliffe, the originator and author of Postman Pat. ![]()
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