![]() ![]() ![]() He created the character and the location, where everyone was nice to each other, in stark contrast to the bullying he got for being a tall child (trust me kids, Bullies are cowards, always stand up to Bullies). He grew up in Longsleddale near Kendal in The Lake District and this place would be the inspiration for his most famous character, Postman Pat and the location of the fictional village, Greendale. Great-Uncle Herbert introduced young John to the literary works of Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare and encouraged him to explore science using a microscope, John Cunliffe was quite an intelligent young man. Born in Colne in Lancashire in June 1933, abandoned by his Father as a Baby and left to grow up under his Mother and his Great-uncle Herbert’s influence. ![]()
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