Simon Evans (10 August, 1895 - 9 August, 1940), a postman with the GPO (now Royal Mail) for most of his short life, also developed a reputation in the 1930s as a writer and broadcaster on country life, particularly in and around rural South Shropshire. He had five books published by Heath Cranton Ltd within a seven-year span, 1931-1938, and doubtless more would have followed had he not died at the age of 44, almost certainly as a result of the ga...
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Simon Evans (10 August, 1895 - 9 August, 1940), a postman with the GPO (now Royal Mail) for most of his short life, also developed a reputation in the 1930s as a writer and broadcaster on country life, particularly in and around rural South Shropshire. He had five books published by Heath Cranton Ltd within a seven-year span, 1931-1938, and doubtless more would have followed had he not died at the age of 44, almost certainly as a result of the gassing he suffered in the First World War. In recent years a collection of his writings has been published, and other memorials created, including plaques in Cleobury Mortimer, where he lived for 14 years, and a 28-km walk based on his postal round stretching from Cleobury Mortimer deep into the South Shropshire countryside.
Simon Evans was born at Tynyfedu, in mid-Wales, not far from Lake Vyrnwy, a reservoir supplying water to Liverpool. His father, Ellis Evans, was a farmer, but the family farm was too poor to support a growing number of sons...
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