Marks & Spencer Newcastle upon Tyne. M&S has opened a number of stores at out of town locations since the trend to build shopping centres away from town centres became popular in the 1980s. The first was at the MetroCentre, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, which opened in 1986. Another notable example is the store at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre at Brierley Hill, West Midlands. This store opened on 23 October 1990 shortly after the closure of stores in the nearby town centres of Dudley and West Bromwich; the Merry Hill store was not originally intended to replace these two town centre stores,
Westfield Miranda Westfield Miranda Westfield Miranda (also known as Miranda Fair) is a large shopping centre in the suburb of Miranda in Southern Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located near Miranda railway station. It is managed by the Scentre Group which owns 50 percent of the centre with the other 50 percent by Dexus. Miranda Fair was originally opened in 1964 as a Myer shopping centre. Designed byTomkins, Shaw & Evans Architects, it was built on the former site of Fowler's brick pit. It was the first regional shopping centre in Sydney to have two department