The view from the Station Approach looking towards the opposite hillside of Masson and the Heights of Abraham. Perhaps the horse and its driver were waiting for passengers. The stone built hotel facing the cameraman is The County and Station. To the left of the hotel Holme Road climbs up the hill. Although it is mostly hidden behind the trees, the shop at the bottom of Holme Road on the opposite side was William Bryan's drapery. Then there is a small shop that was a butchers in the 1950s. Showing over the left hand gable of The County and Station is a two storey building with three windows on the first floor; these were originally stables and carriages were stored there. The square yard in the front was cobbled and gently sloping with a drain in the middle - which, presumably, was where they washed the carriages. In the 1950s the upper floor of this building used to be a men's club where they played billiards. The entrance was up a small trackway beside a general store (Dolly's) that also led to the workshop my father rented for his business use and where the set pieces for the Venetian Fêtes of the 1950s were created.

This card almost certainly dates from the end on the 19th century as properties on Holme Road, which appear in the 1901 census, had not been built. The Clarence is unmistakable, but Rockvale Villas is not shown. The terrace of houses was not built until about 1895 and was first mentioned in a directory in 1899. The Clarence, incidentally, was Matlock Bath's Hydropathic Establishment.