Tee’s Diner

Tee’s Diner, Port Clarence Road, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, 2013 • Derelict diner lent drama by Middlesbrough’s magnificent transporter bridge, which looms above it.

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Sam Roberts says:

2014/04/28 at 20:49

Nice ‘roofad’: http://www.ghostsigns.co.uk/tag/roofads

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- vicimacdonald says:
  
  2014/05/01 at 13:39
  
  ‘Roofad’ – great term!
  
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By Vici MacDonald
On 2014/04/23
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2013, Middlesbrough, Shopfront Elegy

broken sign, eaterie, final closure, spelling and grammar

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