Book, pp. 24 to 54

Charlie's Gateshead

The back lanes, corner shops, churches and demolition scenes of the town where he lived and worked.

Catalogued · 20

The cobbled back lane of Cotfield Street seen from above: yard walls and outhouses, chimney stacks, a telegraph pole, and a poster on the gable end at right.

Back Cotfield Street, Gateshead

1964 · Pen and wash

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

The Joke Shop, Gateshead-on-Tyne

1966 · Watercolour and pen

A snowy school yard with children at play below terraced houses and a church, in a dark frame.

Lady Vernon School Yard

1968 · Oil on paper

Bensham Road in deep snow under a heavy blue night sky, a woman pushing a pram past lit shopfronts.

Bensham Road, Gateshead

1970 · Watercolour

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

Street Meeting with Snow, Gateshead

1972 · Watercolour

Pencil sketch of the front of 239 Westbourne Avenue: the bay window at left, the front door under its stone lintel, a drainpipe between them, and the gate posts and railings in the foreground.

239 Westbourne Avenue, Gateshead

1974 · Pencil

Four adjoining front doors in a brick terrace, green, red and brown, with worn stone steps.

Four Doors at School Street, Gateshead

1977 · Oil on board

The High Level Café on Wellington Street, known locally as Pot Pie Bob’s, its blue shopfront set into a stone railway arch, a red pillar box at right.

Pot Pie Bob’s, Wellington Street, Gateshead

1977 · Watercolour

A snow-covered back lane between brick terraces, a church spire beyond.

Third Street, Back Lane, Bensham, Gateshead

1980 · Oil on paper

A house hung with red creeper beside a broach spire and gabled transept, a figure in blue at the gate.

St Cuthbert’s Church, Bensham

1980 · Oil on board

A stone church with a slender spire across a snowy road under a clear blue sky.

St Cuthbert’s Church, Gateshead-on-Tyne

1982 · Oil on board

The Gateshead Cenotaph in oil, a soldier in its niche, a lamp standard and a figure walking a black dog.

The Cenotaph, Gateshead

1983 · Oil on paper

A run of shopfronts on Gateshead High Street in watercolour and pen, flags above the roofline.

High Street Shops, Gateshead-on-Tyne

2005 · Watercolour

The Central Bar, a tall wedge-shaped Victorian pub on a corner, drawn in pen with watercolour.

The Central Bar, Gateshead

2010 · Watercolour and pen

Crowds gathered at the Gateshead Cenotaph for Remembrance Sunday, a church tower beyond.

At the Cenotaph, Gateshead, Remembrance Sunday

2010 · Watercolour

The portico of the Shipley Art Gallery with paired columns, a red telephone box and figures at the railings.

Shipley Art Gallery

2011 · Watercolour

Saltwell Towers in watercolour: a slate-spired corner tower and crenellated red brick, a bare tree in early leaf.

Saltwell Towers, Gateshead-on-Tyne

2017 · Watercolour

The Cenotaph at Shipcote in snow and bare trees, a parade passing, painted at eighty-eight.

Cenotaph at Shipcote, Gateshead-on-Tyne

2018 · Watercolour

Cotfield Street in watercolour: Taits corner shop at left, terraced houses running uphill, a man walking a dog.

Cotfield Street, Bensham, Gateshead-on-Tyne

Undated · Watercolour

Cotfield Street in snow, a corner shop with a green window, a dark house closing the street, smoking chimneys.

Cotfield Street, Bensham

Undated · Oil on board

Reproduced in the book · 59

Untitled plates from this chapter, shown at the size the book’s scans allow and no larger. Titles, dates and media will follow as the originals are photographed.