{"id":519076,"date":"2026-04-08T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:09:08","slug":"the-postman-who-draws-the-houses-on-his-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519076\/","title":{"rendered":"The postman who draws the houses on his rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Andrew Welch makes his rounds dressed in Royal Mail uniform, he&#8217;s not just delivering letters and parcels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew, who has been a postman in North Yorkshire for 28 years, is also a keen artist who sketches and draws the buildings and landmarks he passes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He sells his work in aid of the Leeds Hospitals Charity, which Andrew supports after undergoing lifesaving surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To show my gratitude for the support I got, the care I got, everything I received, I would like to try and do whatever I can to pay them back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Andrew Welch makes his rounds dressed in Royal Mail uniform, he&#8217;s not just delivering letters and parcels.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}