Newcastle's shopping runs from a Grade I listed Victorian market hall to converted warehouse studios in Ouseburn and tiled Edwardian arcades off Grey Street. Three days covering hundred-trader halls, Jesmond boutiques and a Tynemouth station flea market.
Grade I listed and trading since 1835, this covered Victorian hall holds around 100 stalls under a barrel roof, including the original 1895 Marks & Spencer Penny Bazaar unit. Open Mon-Sat 09:00-17:30, closed Sundays.
The farmers' market fills the paving around Grey's Monument on the first Friday of each month, 09:00-15:00, with Northumbrian cheese, Craster kippers, honey, cured meats and baked goods from around 40 regional producers.
Britain's largest independent commercial art gallery occupies a Victorian warehouse on Stoddart Street, showing roughly 200 artists across two floors. Everything hangs with a price tag, from £30 prints to four-figure sculpture.
A working open-access print studio in Ouseburn with a shop selling signed etchings, screenprints and linocuts by North East artists. The presses are visible from the gallery and staff will explain edition sizes and paper stock.
The city's covered retail core links Northumberland Street to Grainger Street with about 150 stores across Grey's Quarter and Eldon Garden, holding the Newcastle flagships of most UK chains. Open until 20:00 on weekdays.
An Edwardian arcade of 1906 lined in cream and brown faience tiles with a mosaic floor, tucked between Grey Street and Grainger Street. JG Windows has sold sheet music, vinyl and instruments in it since 1908.
Jesmond's independent strip runs two short blocks: homeware and cookshops, a florist, an independent bookseller, womenswear boutiques and a deli counter. Most units are family-run and shut by 17:30.
The family-owned department store has traded here since 1882 and still fills four floors, with a food hall, a beauty hall and the animated Christmas window that has been staged every November since 1971.
Around 150 stalls fill the glazed Victorian platforms of Tynemouth Metro station every Saturday and Sunday, 09:00-15:00, selling vinyl, vintage clothing, coins, tools and North East ephemera under wrought-iron canopies.
A deconsecrated Victorian church on Bath Terrace converted into a small arcade of independent units selling jewellery, candles, prints and gifts, with a coffee counter, two minutes' walk from Front Street.
Whitley Bay's independent high street packs a bakery, a record shop, gift and homeware stores and secondhand books into a single stretch, five minutes from the restored Spanish City dome and the seafront.
The former Maling pottery works has been rebuilt as a creative quarter, with ceramicists, screenprinters, a bike workshop and a brewery tap arranged around brick courtyards a short walk from Byker Metro.