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Tributes have been paid to 95-year-old Jimmy Forsyth whose pictures documented Newcastle life for more than five decades. Jimmy died on Saturday, a few days before his 96th birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite losing the sight in one eye in the 1940s, Jimmy began documenting the city’s Scotswood Road in 1954 and subsequent demolition in the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n

He had taught himself photography after buying a cheap camera from a junk shop.<\/p>\n

Reporting his death, the Newcastle Evening Chronicle<\/a> said: ‘He also recorded incidents such as a hole in a bedroom wall caused by a runaway beer wagon in 1960. It was used by the Evening Chronicle, earning Jimmy seven shillings and six pence.’<\/p>\n

Jimmy staged his first major exhibition in the early 1980s. A spokesman for Newcastle’s Side Gallery, which showcased his early work, said: ‘His work stands as one of the great records of its kind – a portrait of a working class community from within? we will all miss him.’<\/p>\n

Born in Barry, South Wales, Jimmy left school at 14. In 1943 he sought a job as a fitter in Newcastle before losing the sight in one eye in an industrial accident.<\/p>\n

His photographic talent went unnoticed until he took his albums to a local library in the 1970s where an expert realised their significance and began cataloguing thousands of Jimmy’s pictures.<\/p>\n

Paying tribute on the Evening Chronicle<\/em> website, reader Ray Moffatt wrote: ‘A very gentle and modest man with a great eye… if one man deserves a statue in Newcastle then it is Jimmy.’<\/p>\n

Alan Waite added: ‘This is a sad loss. I used to remember him as a young man… his memory remains with his photographs.’<\/p>\n

Jimmy died at Elswick Hall care home on 11 July. His funeral will take place tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Click here for a BBC TV report<\/a> about the work of Jimmy Forsyth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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