Christie Place, Newcastle, in 1982, and Colin Christie. Portrait photo by Boddy Studios, part of the Newcastle Sun Collection held by Newcastle University's Special Collections.
Colin Christie, Newcastle’s musical mayor
Mostly assembled from research by Norm Barney and Ross Edmonds Next to Newcastle City Hall is a little park, sometimes bright with flowers, that goes by the name of Christie Place. The Christie for whom it is named is one of Newcastle's more colourful (in a good way) former mayors, Colin Christie, whose civic career was paralleled by his musical enterprises. Newcastle book collector and historical researcher Ross Edmonds recently acquired a battered old bound volume of sheet music that once belonged to this musical mayor, prompting some interest in the man behind the place name.…