Robinson Peter Sutherland

Who is Robinson Peter Sutherland?

Robinson Peter Sutherland was a 19th-century Tyneside author, poet and songwriter.

Between the years of 1824 and 1860, the centre of old Newcastle was basically demolished and rebuilt as a result of Richard Grainger’s town planning exercise. The result was wider and cleaner streets, more attractive places of commerce and business, repositioning of the old traditional markets, and a loss of the old smelly slum areas, but also the loss of many historical areas, town walls and gates, etc. and tradition.

Most of Sutherland’s songs laments the passaing of the 'old toon' or the similar changes which took place to the riverside areas.