JRT,
Ah, the famous, or rather infamous, Cricketers on Portrack Lane. The unofficial headquarters of the militant wing of the GSDF. I wouldn’t go in there, not if I were you.
It is a merry drinking hole of some repute (although there are many worse places).
Among some of the more interesting house rules –

No motorbikes or horses in the bar
No fighting in the toilets
No Mackems

Portrack and Blue House are opposite the old “Cleveland Iron Works”, now long since gone.
Teesside, the urban conurbation of Middlesbrough/Stockton, used to be called “steel river”
where the steel for many of the 20th century’s famous landmarks was manufactured, including Sydney Harbour Bridge, and I believe, your own Golden Gate Bridge in Frisco.

The Iron ore terminals, blast furnaces, smelters, rolling mills, coil plate and beam mills used to occupy most of both banks of the River Tees for about 8 miles, down to Redcar on the coast. This along with hundreds of miles of railway track, sidings and marshalling yards.

Most of it is gone now. Sad really. British Steel was once the worlds best.