MetroCentre (shopping centre) MetroCentre (shopping centre) intu Metrocentre, formerly MetroCentre and known on road signs as Metro Centre, is a shopping centre in Dunston Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Located in Dunston, Gateshead, on a former industrial site near to the River Tyne, the Metrocentre opened in stages, with the first phase opening on 28 April 1986 and the official opening on 14 October 1986. It has more than 370 shops occupying of retail floor space, making it the largest shopping and leisure centre in the UK already at its opening. Additional retail space is available in the adjoining Metro Retail Park and
The Shires Shopping Centre The Shires Shopping Centre The Shires Shopping Centre is the central, covered shopping centre in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. The centre includes an adjoining 1,000-space car park and fronts onto the retail-centred 'high street' which has many banks and cafés. The county town's main museum is within the centre. On average approximately 120,000 shoppers visit each week. Excavations before the construction of the centre revealed multiple artifacts of Saxon occupation, including a church and graveyard dated to c. 850 AD, and remnants of the medieval castle; as such the name evokes this period of Anglo-Saxon England when during the Heptarchy major affairs