![]() 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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