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It has 206 shops, 38 restaurants, an Odeon cinema, a Clip n’ Climb, a bingo alley, a Namco Funscape, The Escapologist and Treetop Golf, occupying over 2,000,000 sq ft (190,000 m 2) of retail floor space, making it the second-largest shopping centre in the UK, behind Westfield London. Additional retail space can be found in the adjoining Metro ...
In 1934, the Ellison Street store in Gateshead was given a makeover which included three new floors and expansion to 30 departments. The store was undamaged during the Second World War but, in 1946, it was burnt to the ground. [2] While the store was being rebuilt, Shephards moved to Kent House, the former Snowballs department store.
MetroCentre (shopping centre), a large shopping and leisure centre located in Gateshead, United Kingdom Metrocenter Mall (Jackson, Mississippi) , a shopping mall in Jackson, Mississippi, USA Metrocenter (Phoenix, Arizona) , a shopping mall in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Metrocentre Interchange serves the Metrocentre in Gateshead. The bus station was originally constructed in the late 1980s, opened in 1987. [1] In the early 2000s, the former bus station was demolished, with the current bus station opened in October 2004. [2] [3] A footbridge connects Metrocentre Interchange with the railway station and coach park.
The Business which sold everything but food, grew to serve many of the mining communities in the North East with new stores being opened. In 1933, Doggarts spent £30,000 on building a new store in Gateshead. [3] At one point the business had 17 branches, but all were operated from the main store at Bishop Auckland. The branches were:
For further groceries and white goods, residents can travel to the MetroCentre, Europe's largest shopping centre, around four miles towards Gateshead, as well as the shopping areas of Newcastle upon Tyne. There is an adequate, although declining, public transport service. Bus services operate to Crawcrook, Ryton, Blaydon, the MetroCentre and ...
With the development of the MetroCentre and competition from nearby Newcastle upon Tyne city centre, commercial interests in Gateshead town centre have declined. The 1985 opening of the Gateshead Interchange, a bus and metro transport hub, combined with changes to town centre access for private motorists, made the car park largely redundant ...