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
Brent Cross Shopping Centre the 1994 film "London" by Patrick Keiller. It shows the former large fountain and stained glass on the roof, which were removed in 1996. The car park of the shopping centre was used as a filming location for the 1997 James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies". The shopping centre is featured in Ken MacLeod's science-fiction novel "The Star Fraction". The action takes place in a balkanized UK, in the middle of the 21st century, and the ruins of the shopping center are used as a local market for the anarchist enclave of Norlonto ('North London Town'). Brent Cross Shopping Centre