Something they didn't pull down in the 70's...

One of Sunderland's oldest properties, originally the Three Crowns (17th c), it was also known as the Exchange Tavern and later, the the Royal Exchange. The Eagle Building takes its name from the carved wooden eagle which once topped the pediment, and was a very prominent feature of the Sunderland's (200-201) High Street East, a once boisterous thoroughfare leading to the Port of Sunderland and Fish Quay. 

The building ceased to be a public house in 1920 and sometime later it lost its eagle in what some regard as an act of architectural vandalism. When the building was restored in 2002 it gained an equally impressive new eagle, surveying the little that is left of the once diverse and vibrant High Street East of Sunderland.