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A LONG-RUNNING theme in Remember When has been the lamentations over the building of the A66 elevated section, smack through the centre of Middlesbrough.
This development saw the destruction of many old buildings, such as the Brunswick public house and of course the Royal Exchange.
We have often championed the Victorian roots of Middlesbrough and, in doing so, implied that 19th century planners were more sensitive and caring about the way they constructed their towns.
However, there is one big fly in the ointment of that idea, a veritable bluebottle in fact - and that is Yarm railway viaduct.
This massive bridge is so much part of the landscape of Yarm that it is difficult to imagine the town without it -...