A very memorable Whitby regatta experience

In 1990 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 him and his 18-year-old girlfriend and having our full sized portraits painted in exchange for copious amounts of alcohol for him.

Lenny was in actual fact in our opinion a very good artist and lover of Whitby. Six 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.

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 !

The picture will follow when I have scanned it tomorrow.