This substation building was built in 1914 next to the tramway between the Eston and Chaloner ironstone mines and was one of the few standing remains left from the Eston mines.
Although you’ll not see it any more as it was apparently demolished in the last couple of days.
No idea if the French chalk graffiti underneath the Regent was done officially by the film crew or just spontaneous by the extras, its long since disappeared and been replaced by the modern variant.
The Royal Exchange was sadly lost to the A66 flyover in the 1980s.
The are some nice pictures of it on the Lost Teesside page
One small scrap of it remains outside the Corus Steel House offices near Redcar.
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