IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
High Street East, WALLSEND, NE28 8NX

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to High Street East, NE28 8NX by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk

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Market Woman
The Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1437357?section=official-list-entry sculpture by Hans Schwarz was commissioned in 1966 by J Seymour Harris and Partners to stand in the contemporary Forum shopping centre precinct. The intriguing statue is of a robust, female Roman-era peasant whose stoical pose contrasts with that of the flapping live hens balanced in a heavy basket on her head. Schwarz explained his thinking behind the sculpture in a letter to a local schoolgirl. He said that he was looking for a realism and wanted the woman "to appear as a tough, hardworking peasant, not a graceful girl". He made a plea against conventional thought, urging her to think honestly and carefully about art. The finish was deliberately rough to give the work a hand-finished appearance, and also to give the impression of age. Schwarz objected to a romantic interpretation of sculpture, which he saw as inappropriate given its location, referring to "a Hadrian of grandeur, who in point of fact based his rule on subjugation of subject races". His sentiment was not shared by the local community at the time who greeted its unveiling with a storm of criticism. Some regarded the sculpture as "shameful" in its blunt portrayal of a working class woman. However, attitudes have softened over time and the sculpture has proved its resilience, remaining an integral feature of central Wallsend. Hans Schwarz (1922-2003) was an Austrian Jewish émigré who was forced to flee Vienna to escape from the rise of Hitler; his father died in Auschwitz. Aged only 16 when he arrived in England, he was interned as an enemy alien. On his release Schwarz trained at Birmingham College of Art. He then worked as a freelance illustrator until 1964 when he became a full-time painter and sculptor. As well as sculpture, Schwarz worked in a wide variety of media, oil, acrylic, watercolour, and even household paint. His paintings are found in many collections; his most frequently seen work is probably a portrait of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery. The sculpture was originally sited on a low brick base, but was moved to its present location in a flower bed to one side of the shopping precinct when the area was redeveloped in 1993.
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 19 Oct 2022
0.03 miles
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'Booze Master', Wallsend
Image: © Roger Cornfoot Taken: 25 Sep 2021
0.04 miles
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Memorial Hall detail
Image: © Mac McCarron Taken: 30 Sep 2007
0.05 miles
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Roman woman going to market
This statue stands in The Forum Shopping Centre in Wallsend. Construction of the centre commenced in the late 1950s after the clearance of old houses, a cinema and a pub.
Image: © Mac McCarron Taken: 30 Sep 2007
0.05 miles
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Wallsend Social Club
Image: © Mac McCarron Taken: 21 Oct 2007
0.05 miles
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The Anson, High Street West, Wallsend
Image: © Mac McCarron Taken: 7 Oct 2007
0.05 miles
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Station Road, Wallsend
Bus stops on the A186. On the left is the library.
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 19 Oct 2022
0.06 miles
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Park Road North, Wallsend
A street of mainly terraced housing, some flats and some self-contained. A few are medical and dental practices.
Image: © Mac McCarron Taken: 13 Apr 2011
0.06 miles
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St Luke's Church, Wallsend
Interior towards the great east window Image The outside of the church is shown here Image Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Luke%27s_Church,_Wallsend
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 14 Jun 2016
0.06 miles
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St Luke's Church, Wallsend - east window
'Crucifixion' by Wilhelmina Geddes (1922) - a memorial to the men of the parish killed in the First World War. 'One of the top ten best stained glass windows in the world.' 'One of the finest windows north of the Alps'. 'Of exceptional high quality and having a far deeper glow and colour and a far more violent expression than by any other artists of that time anywhere else in the country.' (Nikolaus Pevsner). 'To see this Geddes is to recognise, like scales falling from the eyes, that nothing quite matches the highest quality stained glass for intensity of artistic experience. I stared at and absorbed it for a good ten minutes. Only a personal visit can suffice, photographs cannot convey the way it commands the whole interior.' (Mathew Saunders). The Irish stained glass artist Image, Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_Geddes was described as ‘the greatest stained glass artist of our time’ (Times obituary 1955) Wallsend Local History Society - Tower of Glass http://www.wallsendhistory.btck.co.uk/Campaign/Articles Times Higher Education - Wilhelmina Geddes: Life and Work, by Nicola Gordon Bowe https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-wilhelmina-geddes-nicola-gordon-bowe-four-courts-press
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 14 Jun 2016
0.06 miles
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