Christian, though, asks the most pressing question: “Have you ever come across the nickname for Darlington of ‘Darnton in the Dirt’?” Darlington market place in 1843 looking down Tubwell Row. Echo Memories - Looking down Tubwell Row from Darlington's High Row. Workmen make sure the stripes on the zebra crossing at the top of Tubwell Row are brilliant white while the traffic sweeps round them. A trolleybus turns west into West Row from Tubwell Row in March 1926.