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The Hoppings funfair on Newcastle Town Moor: a big wheel, a steam engine and red lorries under a grey sky.

Charlie Rogers

Town Moor, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

1966

Medium: Watercolour
Chapter: Newcastle
Image: Photographed from the original

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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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Artwork © Charles Rogers Junior. Built around the book by Brian Rankin, Littlecroft Publishing, 2025.