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Simon Meechan & Helen Dalby

9 things that always happen when you go to the Metrocentre

For more than 35 years, the Metrocentre has had shoppers flocking to Gateshead.

The shopping mall first opened in October 1986, on the site of a former power station in Dunston.

Family days out, nervy first dates, and frantic Christmas shopping trips have been MetroCentre fixtures ever since.

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