Home & Gifts
Whether you’re on the prowl for a gift to write home about or a piece of homeware which you’d bloody love to receive as a gift, you’ll be able to find them in Newcastle and Gateshead.
Here’s a smattering of corking ideas to get you started. There are lots more in the offing.
Don’t forget to keep your local shops, designers and makers in mind when you’re shopping online too. Loads of businesses added an online store to their offer during the pandemic and these still remain… so seek them out when you’re searching for a pressie!
What is it? A bright and airy corner shop in Low Fell packed with gifts to suit all ages and occasions. These include personalised canvases for children, which you will…
What is it? A gift shop tucked away on the Durham Road through Low Fell with an array of products to suit most special occasions and to satisfy many a…
What is it? As the name suggests, Fern Avenue Antiques Centre is a space dedicated to antiques (although one person’s ‘antique’ seems to be another’s ‘vintage’). Clare Smith and partner…
What is it? An independent commercial art and craft gallery, supposedly the biggest in the country, housed in a former Victorian warehouse where biscuits were once produced. Now it is…
What is it? Newcastle Arts Centre is all sorts of things – craft shop, cafe, gallery, the barn-like art materials shop, Details and a venue upstairs which is the new…
What is it? As the title suggests, a centre for contemporary art but HUGE. It used to be the Baltic Flour Mills – opened by Joseph Rank Ltd on the…
What is it? A one-stop shop for across-the-board loveliness in Newcastle, Flea Circus showcases more than 40 independent sellers who are co-habiting in harmony in a spacious unit just on…
What is it? A unique gift shop in Newcastle city centre, The Glamorous Owl is the perfect place to start if you’re in the market for a present – although…
What is it? A gift shop which is dripping in the best kind of Geordie-ness, UpSide Down Presents resides on the Side – an offshoot of Dean Street – and…
What is it? Newcastle’s longest running independent market, the Make and Mend Market fills the city’s Grainger Market with a melting pot of creative loveliness and artisan delights on a…
What is it? This is a treat of a monthly market, which brings the good people of Low Fell a veritable melting pot of top drawer produce from the North…
What is it? A much loved and longstanding weekly market featuring a big crowd of independent traders in a pretty iconic spot. An array of tempting hot food options, treaty…
