Down Darby's

The EBR

The Inaugural Ceremony of Eston Mine and Branch Railway, 6th January 1851 - Part 1.

Painted for the new film and based closely on newspaper accounts of the day. Cheering villagers meet Bolckow, Vaughan and guests as they arrive at the tip-yard on a first class train...

£20.00

Bold Venture

The Inaugural Ceremony of Eston Mine and Branch Railway, 6th January 1851 - Part 2.

...from the tip-yard, the dignitaries and villagers march behind a brass band up the narrowgauge incline (later known as 'Old Bank') to witness the first 6 wagons being let down "with frantic velocity amid great cheer!"

£20.00

Widows' Row

Once a tragic and all too familiar scene to the womenfolk of Old Row, California, so much so villagers dubbed it "Widows’ Row". However it was the South Eston men who were carried down this route and the California men through South Eston as to purposely avoid their respective families.

£25.00

Stoney Brow

The long trail home from Pit-Top to Eston along
"Stoney Brow" as it was known. It’s other name
was ‘The Compensation Path’ for if a miner injured
himself walking on it , he was eligible for ‘compo’
but if he used any other route he got nowt !

£25.00

Lowther's Drift

This timbered entrance on Lowther’s Wilton estate is long since vanished but is recreated here under the expert eye of Tom Kerrison who worked in it during the 1920’s. Remains of the electric Keith fan and air drift which were on the West of the Lowther's Drift are still visible from the tramway footpath between New Bank and the 1871 bridge.

£20.00

Barnaby Moor

The long lost village of ‘Pit Top’ on
Barnaby Moor, showing pit-head, houses and schoolroom as painted from the descriptions of former residents.

£25.00