Property News · June 8, 2018

Let’s move to Ouseburn: if Newcastle upon Tyne had a Shoreditch, this would be it


It’s the north-east’s pumping creative heartWhat’s going for it? Oh, yes, everyone’s talking about Ouseburn. What? Never heard of it? Darling, where have you been? If Newcastle had a Shoreditch, this would be it. Or rather, if London had an Ouseburn… Those not in the know might just drive over the Byker Bridge and barely glance at the mechanics’ sheds, warehouses, Victorian odds and sods, and is that a farm (it is) underneath them. This, I’ll have you know, is the pumping heart of the north-east’s creative economy, resuscitated from postindustrial dankness by the community-driven Ouseburn Trust, those odds and sods inhabited by clusters and hubs, co-working startups and digital-craft-hybrid-artisan-coffee-roasters, that sort of thing. Good for them. The best thing about Ouseburn, though, is its weirdness, that deep, dark crevasse of a valley hiding all sorts of mysteries; the way you might see horses wandering past those mechanics’ sheds en route for the stables, the slightly surreal “village green”, as if collaged from Ambridge. But the really best thing? Having a pint in the sun at the Free Trade, watching the boats on the Tyne drift by.The case against It hasn’t all come together yet; the fragments need to be stitched to each other. Developers are all over it: let’s hope it doesn’t succumb. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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