Frederick Walter Howe, Postman. Resident Broadgates, The Bank, Barnard Castle.

Teesdale Talk: “Postman tale stirs memories of tragic day”
From the archive, first published Saturday 14th Jan 2006.
A dreadful tragedy has been recalled following a report in The Northern Echo about a display featuring Teesdale's postmen in decades gone by.

Harold Howe, who lives in Barnard Castle, contacted me [Jim McTaggart] after reading it to relate how his father, Fred Howe, was killed.

He was a popular postman who cycled all over Marwood and Langleydale delivering letters and parcels when the sorting office was on The Bank. But while pedalling on his round on a Saturday in May, 1928, when he was 37, he was fatally injured in a collision with a car near Kinninvie.

[Fred Howe is listed as F.W. Howe on the Barnard Castle Post Office Roll of Honour. To have survived the war only to be killed in a car crash is a dreadful tragedy indeed.]

He is remembered at Barnard Castle on B135.01