Gerry Hillman Landscape Prints – Cheesewring engine hauling a granite train under Stowe’s Hill (c.1875)

On this part of Bodmin Moor there was much tin and copper mining and quarrying for granite in Victorian times. This picture re-imagines what the scene would have been as early steam engines hauled granite and ores from the mines to Looe docks from high on the moor. This train is coming from Kilmar quarry two miles further out on the moor, and now heading for Minions before the long descent to Looe docks. The railway lines were laid on heavy granite setts and this is much as it would have looked on a sunny October morning with mist still hanging in the valley below.

Edition size       95 prints

Image size        20” X 13”    (51cm X 34cm)

Mounted size    26” X 20”    (66cm X 50cm)

Price (mounted print) £165, delivery included (UK)