Whitby fans on Facebook, about stories and pictures from your past in Whitby.
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This is a spur of the moment posting on Whitby fans on Facebook, about stories and pictures from your past in Whitby.About 20 years ago Pauline and myself were in Whitby for the Regatta. We were having lunch in the Black Horse pub on Church Street, when a hippy style guy in his 30s called Lenny approached us in the pub trying and successfully selling us one of his own paintings of Whitby. It turned out that he was a bit of a dropout drunk and this was his way of paying for his beer. To cut a long story short we ended up spending the day with Lenny and his 18-year-old girlfriend and having our full sized portraits painted in exchange for copious amounts of alcohol for him.
The picture above is Lenny on the right, Pauline in the middle and me on the right. The following day we are holding Lenny’s portraits of ourselves, which cost is quite a few pints of beer!
And the picture below when his girlfriend on the right, along with our friends the glasses of beer 
Lenny was in actual fact in our opinion a very good artist and lover of Whitby. A few years later I met him again in Trafalgar Square in London, he was still drinking big-time and still painting people’s portraits as a street artist. Canvas Art and Wall Art
PS it was the only time Pauline and myself drank alcohol to some degree all day! But what a heady excitement Whitby regatta day we had, well worth the headache !
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What a great story Alan, life has a way of throwing us into the lives of unexpected characters that we p’haps wouldn’t have chosen to meet up with. Amazing that you met up with him again in Trafalfar Square!!
A similar thing happened to me in a way I went to see my brother in a Disney show at the Empire Pool in the 70’s and I sat next to a lad of similar age to me. He didn’t speak much, anyway to cut a long story short. A couple of years ago I was in Doncaster trudging to work and this guy was sat on the street where I worked with a can of beer at 8.30 in the morning and shouts ‘hey I know you’ I replied ‘I dont think so mate’ and he said ’sure I do we sat next to each other at the Disney on Parade tour in London 30 years ago’ … you can imagine I was gobsmacked what a memory he had especially as he had become sadly alcoholic.
For someone with a pathetic memory such as I have p’haps this is the way to go Alan lol!
Hi Jane
Quite an amazing little story
to say you didn’t speak much you must have had some impact on the gentlemen because it’s such a long time is 30 years to remember someone only one meeting! Did you recognise him more or less immediately when he shouted? What a pity he was drinking at that time in the morning.
It was quite a coincidence meeting Lenny again in London but he had told me he was intending to go there so I was obviously looking around the area where the street artists are near Piccadilly. He seemed to me one of those very extrovert artistic type of people that also don’t follow the rules in life they do as they please. Unfortunately he was also a very very big drinker at the time so I tend to remember in London he was looking a little rough and that’s got to be 15 years ago so who knows…. Somebody on Whitby fans might remember him or know him now.
Regarding the drinking to improve memory I do try to do my bit
Best Alan