The Talk of the Toon

Picture Archive: Language & Identity

'Famous Faces' (Bob Olley, 1996). This mural at the Blackett Street entrance to Monument Metro station depicts 14 well-known Tyneside figures: Robson Green, Brian Johnson, Brendan Foster, Rowan Atkinson, Sir John Hall, Peter Beardsley, Dame Catherine Cookson, Tim Healy, Jack Charlton, Paul Gascoigne, Jimmy Nail, Sting, Cardinal Basil Hume, and Mike Neville.

Image: Sicco2007 2009 (CC BY-NC-ND)
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