Alan Cleaver, a former journalist and more recently a walking guide book author has a long-held fascination in handwritten letters and how they have been delivered. The Postal Paths, his new book coming in April 2025, celebrates and honours the endeavour of the rural postal delivery service.
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Alan Cleaver is an author from Whitehaven, Cumbria UK whose latest book, The Postal Paths, looks at the routes walked by rural postmen and postwomen from the 1850s until the 1970s (vans are now used for all delivery routes in Britain) and the lives of the posties who walked them. Alan will be on a
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