Do you know the story
and perhaps popular
theme song
of 'Postman Pat'?

On display is a draft
advertisement
to promote the theatre
performance ‘Postman Pat’
at the Fairfield Halls.

This work was created in
pencil and watercolours.

There are other promotional items
in the Fairfield Collection,
including diaries and programmes

There was one occasion
when it was a very very hot
Sunday evening
and there was an
American jazz rock band called
Blood Sweat and Tears.

They were appearing
and all the windows
at Fairfield were open
and I wandered out
and I thought
Oh you can still hear them.

And I wandered right down
to the end of Katharine Street
at its junction
with the High Street
and you could still hear,
it was incredible,
The fact that there was
a top American Band
on stage in Fairfield
and you could hear it
walking down the street
so that was something quite good.

The British animated television series,
Postman Pat, was created
by John Cunliffe.
The children's series tells the story
of the friendly postman Pat Clifton and
his ‘black and white’ cat Jess.

The first episodes were shown on BBC
in 1981. The show was so popular
that over the years
many theatre performances
about the story were created.

Graham Lambourne was the first
publicity officer at the Fairfield
in the 1970s, and helped to promote
events such as this one.

In the tell 'clip' Graham remembers
a very different event when the
America rock group
'Blood, Sweat and Tears'
came to Croydon.
Hearing music from the Halls
down Katharine Street was great publicity
for the venue.

To find out more about
the Fairfield Collection
visit our Research room.

The Research room
can be found
on the lower ground floor
of the Croydon Clocktower
and is open Tues - Sat
from 10.30 - 17.00