Charlie's Gateshead

The Joke Shop in the Railway Quarter, Gateshead, under a great railway arch, shopfronts in red and yellow, figures sheltering.

Charlie Rogers

The Joke Shop, Gateshead-on-Tyne

1966

Charlie could paint in the Railway Quarter in any weather. The railway arch gave him shelter, and it appears in many of his paintings of the quarter.

Medium: Watercolour and pen
Place: Railway Quarter (Gateshead East)
Chapter: Charlie's Gateshead
Image: Photographed from the original

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Railway Quarter (Gateshead East)

Painted 1966; since altered.