Please Mister Postman

In July 1969 Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill and the local community welcomed them with open arms. Please Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in the 1970s where no celebration was complete without a Party Seven of Watney’s Red Barrel smoking was the norm rather than the exception and Sunday lunchtime was about beer bingo and cribbage. But as Alan’s life appears to be settling down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to take off his close-knit family is struck once again by tragedy…