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On October 16, 2009 this website, www.royalmailteesdale.piczo.com, reached 12,000 hits.
Jim McTaggart, 'Dales Diary' (formerly 'Teesdale Talk') columnist in The Northern Echo, covered this landmark with the following article:
'Tom always deliverd on time... get my drift?'
appeared in the South Durham News Round-Up, page 10, of Saturday, October 24, 2009.
More pictures of Tom Ireland in the drifts:
Mailvan, Duple bodied 1937 Morris Minor, registration number EGU 85, in the snow at Bowron Corner - near Langdon Beck.
The vehicle illustrated, BLH 485, is a pre-war Morris Minor 35cf. mailvan. The George V cypher was used up to March 1936, suggesting the photograph was taken in the winter of 1935/6.
Mail arriving March 12, 1937 via Barnard Castle Post Van. Taken outside a snow-bound Eggleston Post Office with Postman Driver Wilf Robinson shoveling.
BGF 354, serial number 5357, was a Morris Flatnose 70cf. mailvan new to the GPO in July 1934. It lasted until January 1942 with Head Postmaster at Darlington.
