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Fenkle Street

Fenkle Street in the centre of Newcastle runs from Charlotte Square down to Westgate Road.

The street is on the 1610 map of John Speed and was known as Fennell Street in 1723. In 1808 it was called Charlotte Street.

I have found 3 different reasons online as to why it is called Fenkle Street. England's North East say a ‘fenkle’ or ‘finkle’ is a dog-leg bend or ‘elbow’ of Scandinavian origin. This street is so-named from joining the medieval thoroughfare of Westgate (now Westgate Road) at an angle, Newcastle Libraries on Flickr say the street is believed to have been named after Nicholas Fenkell a merchant in Newcastle in 1577 and Sitelines suggest The word "fenkel" means fennel. Take your pick or let me know if you know which is correct.

The Old Assembly Rooms, built in 1776, are located on Fenkle Street. Cross House (1911) is located on the corner of Westgate Road and Fenkle Street.





8th August 2022



Fenkle Street, no. 17-19 & 21.





1st August 2022



Fenkle Street, no. 27.








10th July 2022



Fenkle Street, no. 17-19.

House, now with shop. Early C19. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Rounded corner building. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Boarded-up ground floor shop. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to windows, the central blind and the outer sashes with glazing bars. Curved hipped roof.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.




Fenkle Street, nos. 20-26.

Houses, now with shops. Late C18. English bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 6 bays. Shop fronts of late C19 have bracketed fascia cornice. 2 steps up to 4-panelled door and overlight in deep reveals under wedge stone lintel at right. Similar lintels to plain sashes on upper floors, those on second floor with projecting stone sills. First floor sill band; eaves band; gutter cornice. 2 end brick chimneys, that at right truncated.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.




Fenkle Street, no. 21.




Fenkle Street, no. 23.








26th May 2018







1969



Photo Courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Flickr.





1901



Photo Courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Flickr.





1899



A house on Fenkle Street the ground floor of which has been divided into two. The left-hand side is the business premises of Elizabeth Simpson.

Photo Courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Flickr.





1897



The street is believed to have been named after Nicholas Fenkell a merchant in Newcastle in 1577. The building on the left is Cross House. The Bull park sign on building the is the old name for the Exhibition Park.

Photo Courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Flickr.





1880



The shop is in 1, Cross Street, J B Bowes Printers. John Bosworth Bowes started the printing and paper bag manufacturing along with his wife Louisa Jane Bowes nee Angus, daughter of Joseph Cook Angus, Cabinet maker living in Buckingham Street. William Row later became a famous manufacturer of mineral waters on Stowell Street.

Photo Courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Flickr.





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