Located within the heart of Cramlington this is a popular place to shop with a good selection of…read morestores. I say good, not excellent, as there are a few gaps - it could do with a book/DVD/CD store as the selection in the supermarkets is limited to current hits and new releases. There are toilets in Sainsburys, by the exit near Johnsons the dry cleaners and down near Asda. Of the three, I recommend avoiding the ones near Asda as they often smell unpleasant! The car parking is free, with plenty of spaces at the Sainsbury and the Asda end, but the car parks are regularly patrolled and there is a three hour time limit and a no-return policy. Mind you don't get caught out as they do enforce it! ATMs are spread through the centre - Sainsburys, Barclays and the Co-op have machines outside and inside Northern Rock, HSBC, Halifax and Lloyds have them so you're never far from one. At the time of writing the centre is decorated for Christmas and Santas's postbox is popular with the children!

Mannor walks is a thriving local mall which is very popular amonst locals and the surrounding…read moreareas. There is a medium sized ASDA and Sainsburys store and due to be a M&S simply food opening in 2014. There is 80 shops overall in the mall. The shops are fairly good there is the usual Greggs, boots, HSBC, Barclays and other well known retailers. The mall has not been able to keep up with the times though. Unfortuntaly it feels rather dated, South mall is newer though and more modern. However it's encouraging that the old Focus/B&M store has been knocked down and going to be a large shopping complex, M&S, Dunlem mill, PCworld/Currys coming soon. So in conclusion, fairly good mall nothing like metro centre or Eldon square but perfectly adqate.

It's quality all the way. None of your Chinese or Mexican rubbish here. I got socks and tee shirts…read more My wife tells me the socks I chose looked horrible but I liked them. Once on my feet I won't see much of them. I toyed with buying yet another hat to go with the dozen or so I already have but rarely wear. I demurred. She on the other hand bought quite a lot including clothing for gifts. There were a lot of oriental customers with piles of clothing, hats, socks in their clutches.

The store is somewhat off the beaten path in an industrial area to the east of Newcastle. For…read morefolks without a car, the bus or Metro will literally drop you off next to the parking lot. The shop is like any factory store in the states. The front end is all first run merchandise at full UK MSRP pricing - zero bargains to be had there. The back portion is all outlet stuff that is discounted anywhere from 30% (most common) to 50% to 70%. You'll have to hunt through stuff in this section and it can be overwhelming. The sizing is well marked, but stuff tends to get jumbled up, hence the hunting. The staff are polite and try to help, but they seemed to be overwhelmed as well during our visit. You might want to take cash with you as the time we visited their card readers were down. They apparently aren't always good about warning to this and we spent an hour shopping and selecting things to buy before we were told cash only which was very frustrating!!! There is an off-site cash machine available that's a 10 minute walk away (and the staff is all too eager to direct you to it), but it's limited to £250 per transaction. Due to this we walked away from our experience at the store empty handed and unhappy. The bottom line is that unless you are a Barbour fanatic and are looking to make a pilgrimage, or you're looking for a recently discontinued item, there is little reason to visit this place unless you simply run out of other places to visit. You can get the first run items from legit Barbour retailers in the UK at the same price, (or less if you shop on-line.) For US customers, buying at a UK retailer can save you some money depending on the exchange rate, but keep in mind that a $400 jacket eats into your free customs declaration pretty fast. In addition, bulky wax coated jackets might push your luggage weights over the limits in which case the savings is lost due to baggage surcharges. Also, e-Bay retailers in the states can get you the exact same items for an equivalent value to or slightly better than UK pricing.

Small but great shopping centre which forms the heart of Blyth's shopping area next to the market…read moresquare. Stores include New Look, Wh Smith, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Thorntons, three card shops, Adams, a health food store, Bon Marche, sports clothes store, shoe shop, electricals store, O2, flower shop, Superdrug and an independant accessories cart. There is a centre monument of a strong man with small seating area. Photo booth and childrens play area at car park entrance doorway. Nice collection of stores, plenty of bargains available. Reliable security staff.

Small but great shopping centre which forms the heart of Blyth's shopping area next to the market…read moresquare. Stores include New Look, Wh Smith, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Thorntons, three card shops, Adams, a health food store, Bon Marche, sports clothes store, shoe shop, electricals store, O2, flower shop, Superdrug and an independant accessories cart. There is a centre monument of a strong man with small seating area. Photo booth and childrens play area at car park entrance doorway. Nice collection of stores, plenty of bargains available. Reliable security staff.

The Metrocentre is a large shopping centre in Gateshead, in terms of retail size, it is the…read moresecond-largest shopping centre in the UK. (As of October 2022) The mall offers free parking as well as having good public transportation links, it is around a 20-25 minute bus journey from Newcastle city centre, with an irregular train service, that pulls into the Metrocentre Interchange (attached to the shopping centre), which is even quicker. Anchor tenants include Marks and Spencer, Primark, Next, TK Maxx (featuring Homesense). There is also a large Odeon Cinema. Other stores include: Apple, Currys, WHSmith and many other large brands For a full list, you can check out their website: https://themetrocentre.co.uk/stores/category/shopping It is fairly easy to find your way around the mall, as the larger stores are signposted, if you're looking for a smaller store, it may be best to find out which of the larger stores is nearby, to make it easier to find though. There does tend to be a lack of staff around the mall to ask for help, which is disappointing. There is a good selection of food and drink options, mainly consisting of chains and fast food options, that have multiple outlets around the centre. For example, Costa and Starbucks have three stores, and Nando's have two. 4* - It may not be the prettiest mall in the world, with the centre surely showing its' age in the older parts of the mall, as it opened back in 1986, but it has a great selection of shops, in an indoor environment, well suited to a rainy, cold day.

The metro is a nice place in Gateshead were you can have a nice time at shops. It's also a good…read moreplace to hang about. 5 star!

This is a great plac if you want a trip out to a few shops and dont want to go to the city. It has…read morea boots good next shops currys and a comet a halfords who are really helpul. The food van on the left hand side is great for chips much better than you would get in the pizza hut next to the cinema, sorry is it pasta hut. One thing is they closed the only cheap shop down to make a horrid unhelpful argos so when you go to the cinema you are stuck buying there sweets There also have a borders and a starbucks, It is hell to drive around and walk around as there only the occiasional small path on part of the car park, the car park really sucks If you are at all affected by the credit crunch I would go elsewhere not a place for bargains

Just off the A19 the Silverlink has a good selection of shops, fast food restaurants and a cinema…read more(Odeon). The car park (1502 spaces they advertise) is always busy and the through traffic heavy so it's best to go earlier or later in the day rather than at peak weekend hours. Walking around the car park from one side to the other to get to the various stores can be stressful if it's busy and you're lugging bags or trying to corral small children and stop them walking into cars. Shops include a large Next, Boots, Argos, Halfords, Borders with Starbucks, Comet, Currys, JD Sports, Mothercare, M&S and restaurants are Frankie amd Bennys, McDonalds and Pizza Hut. There's plenty of shops to browse around and the stock selection tends to be good. My favourite is Borders where the book selection is excellent, the staff helpful, the children's area bright and welcoming and the Starbucks upstairs a welcome place for a break. There are frequently good special offers on not just books but CDs and DVDs. It's a convenient place for me to go and I can find most things I might want here, it's good for gift and present shopping. http://www.silverlinkshoppingpark.co.uk has a store directory. There have been some changes in the last year or so with Home Bargains being replaced by Argos and PC World replaced by Marks and Spencer.

Small shopping centre, plenty of space though, with a cafe in the centre, car park above, toilets…read moreon the upper mall and a decent collection of shops. Several of the smaller units on one of the strips have closed down and construction has just started to turn this space into one large unit taken by Next which will be great as the Next we currently have resembles a broom cupboard!! MK One has closed down and with Adams reportedly in trouble, new businesses could be filling these units. hopefully sooner than later. It has craft stalls around the upper mall during certain times of the year and has a good feeling to the place.

A small shopping centre with a few good shops like Debenhams, New Look and Topshop. There is a…read moresmall food court with one restaurant. There is a car park but I have never used it. Not much to say about it really.

The Cornmill Shopping centre is located right in the centre of Darlington. It has a wide range of…read moreshops including big names such as Woolworths, Dorethy Perkins, Adams, HMV, WH Smiths and Primark. It also has some more unusal places such as a chinese herb shop and some individual stalls. It has a car park over the road from the shopping centre, and the parking is reasonabl priced.

The Cornmill Shopping centre has a decent range of shops for its size - there's Primark, a small…read moreTopshop, New Look etc - theres also some cafes and small specialist shops. There are also some individual stalls dotted around that sell jewellery, kids toys etc, so there something there for everyone. The centre is always tidy and clean as well.