Scotswood Road Abattoir Raw The 1982 exhibition The British

The 1982 exhibition The British Worker charted a century of labour and class experience in Britain

Three portraits from the series were awarded 1st Prize in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

the construction of the Tyne Bridge

night crowds and backstreet dramas from the 1930s and 40s captured the city’s pulse with unflinching honesty and dark wit

Murray Ballard has undertaken an extensive photographic investigation of the practice Ettinger inspired

Scotswood Road Abattoir Raw The 1982 exhibition The BritishJimmy Forsyth's book Scotswood Road is a unique record of a community photographed from within over many years and at a time of drastic change. Scotswood Road was built in the 1850s to house workers at the huge armaments factories that stretched from Scotswood to Elswick. By the turn of the century the workforce had reached around 2,000, but by 1986 it had reduced drastically to only about 750 workers. This vintage publication is an out of print