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Charlie Rogers, Pursued by Bulldozers
An online archive of self-taught Gateshead painter Charlie Rogers, whose paintings recorded Tyneside streets and buildings before many were demolished.
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- The archive marks painted locations as extant or demolished; the site says half of the buildings represented are gone.
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The archive groups paintings by place and subject, and its Places section records whether locations are still standing or have been demolished. The site traces Rogers’s start to 1964, when a knee injury sidelined him and he painted a back lane from his aunt’s house; it says the street was demolished soon afterward. A book compiled by Brian Rankin, published by Littlecroft Publishing in 2025, is presented as a companion to the online material.
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