The story The work Places People Timeline Exhibitions The book

The work

Observations of people

Bar scenes, conversations, readers and quiet figures caught mid-thought.

From the book

This is a short account. The full story, with more than a hundred paintings, is told in Charlie Rogers, Pursued by Bulldozers.

Charlie Rogers

Self-taught Gateshead painter, 1930 to 2020. He documented the back lanes, pubs and churches of Tyneside, often days before the bulldozers arrived.

Pursued by Bulldozers

Built around the book by Brian Rankin, Littlecroft Publishing, 2025.

Artwork © Charles Rogers Junior

The story The work Places People Timeline Exhibitions The book