![]() John then suggested that the leading character could be the local postman, which Cynthia liked straight away. Later on, John met up with Cynthia Felgate in London who asked him to be the writer for project. ![]() John Cunliffe was told about the project by the parent of one of his students who suggested that he should send some of the stories that he had been writing for children to the project leader as they were looking for writers. Many of the character names and ideas he used came from the Westmorland phone book.Īt the time, Cunliffe had been working as a primary school teacher at Castle Park School, and he told the stories of Postman Pat to his class during his time living and teaching in the South Lakeland town of Kendal.Įventually, the BBC were thinking up an idea for a television series set in the countryside. The post office closed in 2003, though visitors to the Lake District can see a commemorative plaque for Postman Pat along with the original post box outside the property on Greenside, Kendal. This office was a vital part of Cunliffe's research, particularly for the character Mrs. Greendale Post Office was based on the cosy Beast Banks post office in Kendal near to where Cunliffe lived and visited to see how things worked there to get ideas for his stories. His wife's mother would be the inspiration for the character Dorothy Thompson at Greendale Farm. With that, Cunliffe created a village called Greendale, which included many other characters and locations, with most of them being based of real people or real locations he had known in his life. Cunliffe was very fed up, and so he sat down in the back bedroom of his home, and used his old black Triumph typewriter to create a new world, that would be more comforting, and would include a postman named Pat. ![]() In 1978, John Cunliffe was alone in his home in the Lake District, as his only child, Edward was at a boarding school near Kendal, and his wife Sylvia (nee Thompson) was a mature university student. ![]() Later in the series he is promoted to the Special Delivery Service in the neighbouring seaside town of Pencaster and delivers very special parcels in a how range of different vehicles. Postman Pat revolves around the adventures of the local postman Pat Clifton in the village of Greendale as drives around on his post rounds. ![]()
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