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

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!