Littlewood was born in a working-class district of south London. She left
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art early, and was a founder of the agit-prop-inspired Theatre Union in
Manchester. After the Second World War, aiming to bring a fresh kind of
theatre to a new audience, the company toured the UK and Europe as Theatre
Workshop before settling in 1953 at the run-down Theatre Royal in London’s
East End. She revolutionised British theatre after the Second World War by making the classics immediate and by turning raw material relevant to its time into productions of international acclaim. Chief among them was the eye-opening First World War entertainment Oh What a Lovely War.
The postmark follows the usual patterns and is believed to have started on Friday 3 October for delivery on 6th. These examples from Jubilee Mail Centre and Nottingham Mail Centre show the two different layouts normally seen
This example from Chester and N Wales MC shows the reverse layout normally applied to the right side of square envelopes (where the machinery has aligned the stamp to the top left corner).
UPDATE 15 October:
Royal Mail's press release shows this image confirms that
The postmark will appear on mail delivered nationwide from Monday 6th October - the date she was born – to Saturday 11th October
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