It's a long story, but here goes. After leaving art college in the 70's,( I studied Textile Design at Loughborough College of Art, which is another long story I will explain sometime soon ) I got a job as a postman in Disley in Cheshire. It was a small village then and there were six of us working from the sorting office in the village. We covered quite a huge area - all on foot. One round I did for quite a while was Lyme Park, which incorporated Lyme Hall, a stately home now owned by the National Trust.click here LYME PARK - National Trust It was a deer park covering 2000 acres. You set off with a bag of mail and basically headed for each farm or cottage you saw in the distance round the estate. Finally arriving at Lyme Hall and then walking across the moors, heading down towards a reservoir and across the dam to the cottages by the side of it and finally back to the sorting office

I used to take my camera with me and photograph the landscape and deer. Lyme Hall was used as the location for a film brought out last year called The Awakening. I got lost once in the mist, it was quite scary. Bowstones, probably the highest point on another round we did was about 1500 feet above sea level, so in winter it got a bit snowy to say the least, but you know, in the 10 years I was there doing the post rounds in Disley, we never failed to deliver the post and Jack, Johnny, Ivan , Phil, Tony and myself battled the elements, wearing snow chains, sometimes through snow drifts 15 feet high to deliver the post. Totally mad !