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Charlie's Gateshead

A brass band and a crowd in caps gathered in a snowy Gateshead street, a red banner raised, a pram at right.

Charlie Rogers

Street Meeting with Snow, Gateshead

1972

Medium: Watercolour
Chapter: Charlie's Gateshead
Image: From the greeting card artwork

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The book

Charlie Rogers, Pursued by Bulldozers

Compiled by Brian Rankin. Littlecroft Publishing, 2025. The special edition is one hundred copies, each embossed with the roundel and signed by the author, available only here.

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Charlie Rogers

Gateshead, 1930 to 2020

Self-taught painter of the back lanes, pubs and churches of Tyneside, often days before the bulldozers arrived.

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