Wallsend (bodycolour & w/c on paper)

This picture shows ships on the River Tyne waiting to load coal at dusk. They are on the south side of the river at Hebburn, looking across towards Wallsend. Jutting out from the far bank is a coal-loading jetty, with the dome-topped shape of a loading winch near the end. This jetty was known as 'The Black Staith'. The triangular legs of another coal waggonway are just visible by the sailing ship on the left of the picture. Wallsend was the site of the end of the Roman Wall. This picture was one of a series of the Wall painted by Charles and his brother Henry Burdon Richardson for the Newcastle archaeologist Dr John Collingwood Bruce.