Inside the underrated neighbourhood powering a Northern city’s creative boom

Whenever I go to Newcastle, I always make a beeline for The Biscuit Factory in the creative district of Ouseburn. It’s the UK’s largest independent art, craft and design gallery and was formerly The Tyne Biscuit Factory, baking “fashionable biscuits of the day”. Fashionable biscuits aside, TBF is a beautiful, Victorian-era, colour-bright art space that is perfect for a slow hour or two of art immersion with an excellent local café, The Factory Kitchen, that has sky-high views –…