A memory-The Greasy Spoon Cafe.

Yep so hot 🔥 and sleepy. Wow this is amazing!! Love the detail and looks slightly blue which works well. The greasy cafe remember well 🙂

A fabulous bunch of characters and what great memories. Those were the days when our parents said go out and play and then we'd roam for hours on our bikes (get into all sorts of trouble) and then be home for tea no worries (and I lived in the centre of London).

That was quick Faye and Heather. Thanks for your comments. Yes Heather, we kids would be out all day. I lived in south London...Greenwich. The swimming pool was just down the road from the Royal Navy College.

Great memories Lew , our cafe was the tomato dip , not it’s real name , every bit of bread was dipped in the tomato’s , made a great sandwich. Your artwork is excellent the blue gives it a faded sort of look great for the subject.

Superb drawing, Lew, and so utterly believable. I think most people will have memories of this sort of cafe, or something similar, to fall back on. We used to buy saveloy dips from one of the local butchers after we'd enjoyed our Saturday trip to the baths. Your cafe and characters really hit the mark. Bri

Great characters and memories of yesteryear.

Ha, more happy days. The food inspectors nightmares, yet waggon drivers loved em. I drove a waggon at one stage and in one just outside Birmingham, for fifty pence you could get a full breakfast, mug of tea and the morning papers. (always left the black puddings though, couldn't stand em) The place was always packed out. Lovely..(-:

I used to be an HGV driver 'way back when' and visited these establishments on a daily basis, and great places they were too. These characters are all so recognisable Lewis, brilliantly observed and drawn.

Ah bread and dripping. But is was cold dripping for me, with a dash of salt, especially when you got some of the brown jelly from underneath. After the swimming baths on a Saturday it was a battered sausage and chips for a whopping 4d. Great memories Lew, can't wait to see more of your 'old days'.

Lovely memories Lewis. Great job.

Great trip down memory lane. As kids we also used to go to the swimming baths. Took an hour on a bus. No driving kids everywhere in those days. You would be gone hours but no one seemed to worry. Super work and full of such poignant details Lewis.

Fabulous Lewis and a great description.

Thanks again for your comments. I thought it would prompt some memories. Our baths was actually called 'The Municipal Baths'. It had a big swimming pool, but it also had lots a cubicles containing ordinary baths. For a few coppers you could have a normal bath, if you needed towells and soap that was a few coppers more. In those days most working families didn't have a bathroom at home...we had a tin bath hanging on the garden wall. It was my job to lug it upstairs on bath nights. Different days.

Not long after leaving the Army in 1975. I had a few years driving HGV vehicles and frequenting many a greasy spoon truck stop. And this wonderful story telling drawing of those days with such delightful characters has brought back those memories for me. Thank you Lewis.

Great drawing of great days.

In what seems like a previous life I once had a cafe (hopefully not quite a greasy spoon!) and I definitely recognise some of these customers. In fact that could be me in the middle 🤣. Cafe life was very hard work (no day off really) but great fun and some wonderful characters. I loved it.

Superb drawing as always, Lewis, so much detail and the expressions on the faces are brilliant!

What great memories Lewis. We used to go swimming at Grange Road and after wards we were starving and crossed the road to a bakery that sold hot doughnuts straight out of the oven for a penny each. Happy Days indeed.

Your memory of events and depiction of figures is incredible Lewis. We had to cycle 5 miles to the nearest swimming baths in the 1950's and I must say that I wasn't keen, as hated being 'ducked' by other boys. I Remember those dripping sandwiches and also bread and lard with a shake of salt!

Those were the the days, when eating grease was healthy! Nowadays you have to pay lots of money to have dripping on your chips or roasties at high end super markets. But not for me on my fat free diet! Good memory!

Fond memories. Another exceptional drawing Lewis.

Wonderful characters and excellent drawing Lewis. Reading all the memories this evoked reminds me of my swimming days and the free range life we lead as kids. My post swimming treat was just a chocolate covered biscuit and a drink from the pool cafe though🙁

Thanks for all the comments and sharing you own memories...it seems we all had similar experiences, it's just a difference in whatever snack we had after swimming. They did seem happier safer times, but maybe they weren't...these days we get the news rammed into our face all day long. Maybe that's the only difference.

This is great Lewis. The whole painting works so well. Love it.

What a lot of memories this has evoked for everyone Lewis, me included, the hunger after swimming and bread and dripping, but served cold like Tony's. Fantastic artwork and such characters.