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Fenwick Christmas window reveal 2024 – and a look back through the ages
This year, Fenwick is bringing a twist on ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ through its 2024 Fenwick Christmas Window display.
Cleverly reimagined by celebrated author and illustrator Chris Riddell and brought to life by family-owned British design and production house, Propability.
The window series tells the heartwarming story of Foggy, a determined partridge with a special Christmas wish… to make his pear tree grow. Beginning in the Broom Cupboard of Santa’s workshop, where our hero tends to his struggling sapling, visitors follow Foggy’s adventure through a series of enchanting scenes. The story unfolds through Santa’s Design Studio, where Two Turtle Doves, Three French Hens, and Four Calling Birds are hard at work. Moving through to the Secret Workshop, Foggy discovers five golden rings in a dazzling display, before reaching Santa’s Private Office, filled with six geese a-laying and seven swans a-swimming…
The 2024 Fenwick Christmas window display will be open to view from Monday 4th November, throughout the festive season.
A HISTORY OF THE ICONIC FENWICK CHRISTMAS WINDOW
The first Fenwick Window – Camberwick Green, 1971
Fenwick first took the brave step to devote an entire shop window to festive animation in 1971, when they began their collaboration with the German-based One World Studio to recreate the popular children’s TV series Camberwick Green. With stop-motion puppets Captain Snort, Private Featherby and fan favourite Windy Miller began a festive tradition that would continue for more than half a century.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2019
A much-loved year, 2019’s puppet portrayal of Willy Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe was expertly created in the style of Roald Dahl’s original (and instantly recognisable) illustrator, Quentin Blake. Genius.
Christmas in Another World, 2002
Everyone remembers Fenwick’s 2002 window, although not always for the best reasons. Don’t get us wrong, the famous (or is it ‘infamous’ now?) Aliens were well produced but definitely divided opinions, following the slightly more traditional A Christmas Carol and Santa’s Journey. Whether you loved or hated them, though, you’re unlikely to forget them.
1971 – Camberwick Green
1972 – Chigley
1973 – Rupert Meets Santa
1974 – Sooty’s Circus
1975 – Aladdin
1976 – Fairytale Christmas with Cinderella
1977 – Treasure Island
1978 – Storybook Christmas
1979 – Wonderful world of Pantomime
1980 – A Christmas Carol
1981 – Alice in Wonderland
1982 – Arabian Nights
1983 – Fly to Fenwick’s for Christmas
1984 – Gulliver
1985 – Fairytale Christmas with Pinocchio
1986 – Christmas Circus
1987 – Magical Winter Wonderland
1988 – Purrfect for Christmas
1989 – Jungle Fantasy
1990 – Good Old Santa
1991 – It’s A White Christmas
1992 – Santa’s Christmas Party
1993 – Alice in Wonderland
1994 – Christmas Village
1995 – Santa’s New Store
1996 – Fairytale Christmas
1997 – Santa’s Christmas Pantomime
1998 – A Christmas Carol
1999 – Peter Pan
2000 – Christmas in Poodletown
2001 – Santa’s Journey
2003 – Santa’s Workshop
2004 – The Christmas Story
2005 – The Snowman
2006 – Gulliver
2007 – Winter Wonderland
2008 – Oliver Twist
2009 – The Christmas Story
2010 – The Night Before Christmas
2011 – 40 Years of the Fenwick Christmas Window
2012 – The Reindeer Express
2013 – The Fairy Tale Forest
2014 – Alice in Wonderland
2015 – Once Upon a Christmas
2016 – The Magic of Beatrix Potter
2017 – Paddington Bear
2018 – We’re Walking in the Air: The Snowman
2019 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2020 – The Wind in the Willows
2021 – Shaun the Sheep
2022 – Clarice Bean – Think Like an Elf
2023 – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Rachael Ellis
Creative Solutions Manager
After gaining a first in her BA Media and Journalism degree at Northumbria University, Rachael worked at Newcastle’s leading regional newspaper with her stories being picked up in national and global newspapers She spent two very successful years giving a voice to those communities across the North East who otherwise…
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