Home Gallery Allan Smethurst (1927–2000), aka The Singing Postman
Allan Smethurst hummed tunes on his daily post round in Sheringham for twelve years. He always wrote and sung songs in his native Norfolk dialect. He is probably best known for his self-penned novelty song, ‘Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?’, which earned him an Ivor Novello Award in 1966, and ‘A Miss from Diss’.
1900s ‘Post Office Lines of Communication’ by Jan Le Witt and George Him (c.1940)
1900s Jago Smith (c.1880-1912) / James Williamson (died 1912)
1900s ‘A pleasing tone - always!’ by Pieter Huveneers (1957)
1800s The beauty of the mail horses (1840)
1900s Pat Keely (died 1970)
1700s John Pratt writes to John Palmer to inform him that he hasn’t been appointed to Government (August 1782), (from the private papers of John Palmer)