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Market Lane, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 6QQ

Early 18th C with 19th C alterations. The four stone columns on the brick facade arranged symmetrically around a central door bay, clearly indicate that the original house was of considerable quality. The building is Grade II listed http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1106314 . See also Image The Buildings of Grainger Town - No.29. See Image

Disused buildings on Pilgrim Street.

Aka St Andrew's House. A loftily grand sandstone front, probably late C19th, but neither statutorily nor locally listed. Now mostly flats, with a hairdressing salon at the ground floor (John Gerard).

The west side, around High Bridge. Shows Image, Image and Image See also Image The Buildings of Grainger Town - Nos.29, 30 and 31. See Image

This is on Pilgrim Street in Newcastle city centre. This house dates from the late C17, and so is a pretty rare survivor in Newcastle, much of the city centre being rebuilt in the C19. It has had many uses over the years, including as a coaching inn, and a lot of alteration, but was restored in the 1990's by the Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust. It is now used as offices, by the trust and others.

An old pub on Pilgrim Street in Newcastle city centre. It has always been known as the Monkey Bar by locals, although I don't know why. This is one of the oldest buildings on Pilgrim Street and dates to the early C18. There have been many alterations over the years, but the basic building remains.

This was a tobacconist c1980 which, I presume, was sold to the current owners who kept the name. This shop front is almost certainly the least changed in Newcastle city centre in the last 25 years and therefore has become a bit of an icon. Incidentally, Pilgrim Street was formerly a section of the Great North Road.

A now unattractive cut through between Carliol Square car park Image and Pilgrim Street. Not a place to linger. In 1832, a venue off Bell's Court, close to here, was used for lectures in medicine, attended (among others) by John Snow (1813-1858), a British physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered to be one of the fathers of epidemiology, because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_%28physician%29 http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/earlymed.html

A C17 merchant's house, built around 1670, and one of the oldest preserved buildings in Newcastle. Alderman Fenwick was Mayor of Newcastle in 1720. It was later a coaching inn, The Queen's Head, and, more recently, the Liberal Club. The building was restored in 1997, and is now offices. You need to climb onto the wall of the Image on the opposite side of the street to get a good view of the restored cupola and wind vane on the roof Image Tyne and Wear HER (6972): Newcastle, Pilgrim Street, No. 98, Alderman Fenwick's House http://www.twsitelines.info

Late 17th C with 18th C alterations. A rare survival in Newcastle of a merchant's house. The Fenwick family played a prominent role in the commerce and government of the town - and the name continues: see Image (photographed by Andrew Curtis). From a house, the building became a coaching inn (the Queen's Head), then from 1884 it became Newcastle's Liberal Club. The property had been empty for over 25 years when in 1982 the Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust began restoration work with the aid of architects Simpson and Brown of Edinburgh. The building is Grade I listed http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1024793 . See also Image The Buildings of Grainger Town - No.27. See Image