(31 Jul 2015, 1:11 pm)Andreos1 wrote None of the shops that are in the Interchange Centre now - are in the photo. It is all just rubble.
I reckon the shops were built in the mid-80's. So only a few years after that photo was taken and not long before you came to Gateshead.
Note the walkway under Wilkinsons (what was Presto/Safeway), into the metro station, is open to the elements too.
I can't remember Gateshead Interchange ever looking like that, which is strange as I definitely recall being dragged around Sheppards with my mother and blagging her (and my aunt) to buy me He-Man figures. This would have probably been around the same time.
On another note, I imagine it would have been nice sitting on the grass and waiting for your bus to come on a hot summers day in Gateshead. Then again, perhaps not...