Many tea rooms were far from large and lavish like Lyons. Even the Provincial Lady chooses to partake of her "usual lunch of baked beans and a glass of water in a small and obscure café" in Plymouth in order to avoid a hotel lunch with the grand Lady B and having to listen to her solutions to the "servant difficulty" (which illustrate why so many young women preferred to work as Nippies.) This is The Café (Café Conte) (1937/8, Manchester Art Gallery) by (Frank) Graham Bell (1910-43) which was itself a place where impecunious artists met.