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Matlock Bath
Advertisements, 1903 *New*
The Peveril, The Fishpond Posting Establishment and the Temple
- from a Ward Lock Guide |
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Matlock Bath and the
Derwent
From a Ward Lock Guide. It shows the enlarged Royal Hotel only
a year before the fire that destroyed the main building |
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}
}
}
} Matlock Bath: Coat of Arms
} The village seems to have had at least five designs for its
coats of arms.
} The ones we know of, featured on commemorative china
} and two postcards, are discussed on this page.
}
}
} |
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Matlock Bath: Bath
Terrace Hotel
Established in 1798, this was for a substantial part of the
19th century run by the Walker family |
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The Church and Boat
House, Matlock Bath, 1905
From an oil painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley |
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Matlock Bath: Boating
on the River Derwent
and a little about some of the accidents there have been |
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Matlock
Bath: Boats For Hire, 1950s *New*
Rowing boats tied up at the landing stage behind the Grand Pavilion. The
man in charge was Walter Bird - two photographs |
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The Burdett
family outside 5 Clarence Villas
Clarence Villas is next to Hope Terrace on Brunswood Road |
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Matlock Bath:
Youth Hostel, 1960 - the First Vicarage
The former vicarage is on Brunswood Road |
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Matlock Bath:
Cat Tor, 1913
Lovely B&W postcard of this limestone escarpment |
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Matlock Bath: Approaching
High Tor, 1930s
The old water trough was beside the road |
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Matlock
Bath: County & Station Hotel, 1930s *New*
Advertisement for the hotel |
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)
}
}
} Matlock
Bath: Derby Road, Dyson & Clough's Garage
} Matlock Bath Filling Station on Derby Road
)
}
} |
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Matlock Bath:
Derby Road, Hartle's Bazaar
In the nineteenth century Robert Hartle, a comb manufacturer,
had a museum here |
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Matlock
Bath: Derby Road, Woodland House
One of several Matlock Bath properties that fell victim to
the bulldozer |
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Matlock Bath: River Derwent
& the Devonshire Hotel
Pretty card of buildings reminiscent of Venice that were eventually
demolished for road widening |
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}
} Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens - The Switchback, (1) Rise & Fall *New*
} The story of Matlock Bath's Switchback Railway, from the
beginning to its
} demise.
} Includes comparisons with Switchbacks elsewhere in the U.K
and with
} postcards of those at Cleethorpes and Folkestone.
}
} |
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}
}
} Matlock Bath: Derwent
Gardens - The Switchback, (2) Adrenalin Rush *New*
} Two wonderful photos by Percy Rowbottom, one of the cars and an advert
}
} |
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Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens - The Café (1) *New*
Mr. and Mrs. Buxton in the Derwent Gardens, near the Café |
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Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens - The Café (2) *New*
Mr. Bill Boden ran the Café for a long time |
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Matlock Bath : The Ferry
The Walker family ran Matlock Bath's Ferry and Lovers' Walk
for most of the nineteenth century |
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Matlock Bath: The
Ferry and the River Derwent, 1905
A spring picture of the river, the ferry and the pleasure boats |
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Matlock Bath:
The Derwent - and the Ferry, 1908
From an oil painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley |
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Matlock Bath:
On the Lovers' Walk - and the Ferry, 1900
The picture provides a good view of Matlock Bath's "middle"
ferry which had been operating for many years. |
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Matlock Bath:
Lover's Walk and the Ferry House, 1903
From the Ward Lock Guide, 1903 |
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Matlock Bath: The
Ferry House
From an oil painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley |
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Matlock
Bath: The Fish Pond *New*
Probably dates from before WW1 |
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Matlock Bath: The Fish
Pond
Photograph from a Ward
Lock Guide |
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Matlock Bath: The Fish
Pond, about 1920 |
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Matlock Bath: The
Fish Pond, 1932
It shows the shops opposite the Fish Pond and Boden's Restaurant,
so was taken some years before it was posted |
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Matlock Bath: The
Fish Pond, about 1940 *New*
An
ice cream van occuipies the spot where Boden's Restaurant had
been. The card's sender mentions rationing |
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Matlock Bath:
The Fish Pond & Pavilion
With an additional piece of Matlock Bath history |
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Matlock Bath: Fish
Pond Hotel, about 1910 *New*
A group of day trippers on an outing with Joseph Tomlinson & Sons
Ltd are enjoying the sunshine outside the Fish Pond Hotel |
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Matlock
Bath: Fish Pond Hotel, 1900 *New*
Unique photograph of an assortment of cabs and waggonettes
lined up outside the Fish Pond Hotel |
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Matlock Bath: Fish
Pond Stables, 1907, with 1903 Advert
The Grand Pavilion (now the Mining Museum) was built on this
site. The advert is new *New*
|
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Matlock Bath,
from the Heights of Abraham, before 1910
A photograph from a Ward Lock Guide |
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Matlock Bath: General View
from The Heights of Abraham, about 1914
Superb view, looking south |
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Matlock
Bath: Holy Trinity Church and the Heights of Abraham *New*
|
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Holy Trinity
Church and the Switchback Railway, Matlock Bath, 1916
Art Nouveau design |
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Matlock Bath: Holy
Trinity Church Interior,1907
An interesting postcard from before the first War |
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Matlock Bath: The Heights of Abraham, from the Derwent, 1904 *New*
A painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley |
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Matlock
Bath: Great Rutland Cavern on the Heights of Abraham - the
Old Oak Tree |
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Matlock Bath:
Upper Tower, Heights of Abraham
Early twentieth century sepia postcard of the Upper Tower in
the grounds of the Heights of Abraham |
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Matlock Bath: Victoria
Prospect Tower, 1913
Heights of Abraham |
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Matlock Bath:
Victoria Tower, View from Masson, 1907
Lovely coloured view of the Tower on the Heights of Abraham
and the hills in the distance |
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Matlock
Bath: Heights of Abraham, Wooded Slopes *New*
Close up of part of Waterloo Road and the Lower Tower |
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}
}
} Matlock Bath:
Heights of Jacob, Fluor Spar Cavern
} Two early twentieth century cards of the cavern on the Heights
of Jacob,
} one of the exterior and the second of the cavern itself.
}
} |
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Matlock
Bath: High Tor from Matlock Bath Station, 1912 |
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Matlock Bath: Holme
Road area, 1910-1920
Panorama of the properties on the hillside above North Parade |
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Matlock Bath,
from High Tor
Early twentieth century view - these days it can be seen from
the Heights of Abraham Cable Car |
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Matlock Bath: Illuminations
& Venetian Fête in the 1950's
Describes the seven year involvement of my late father, with
photographs of just two of the hundreds of set pieces he produced.
Four new images added Sept 2010 *New*
|
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}
} Matlock Bath: Jubilee
Bridge
} The bridge was finally put in place a few days before Queen
Victoria's Jubilee
} in 1887. Now with more information
}
} |
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Matlock Bath: Jubilee
Bridge, 1910
A slightly unusual view of the bridge, as it was mostly photographed
as part of the river scene |
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Matlock Bath: Jubilee
Bridge, early 1960s
It is always very pleasant to stand by water and watch someone
else rowing a boat |
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Matlock Bath:
From Lover's Walk, Jubilee Bridge
The Promenade Gardens were laid out before the bridge was built |
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Matlock Bath:
Simpson's Letter Card *New*
Six local images, dating from the 1940s and 50s and including
Cromford Bridge |
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Matlock Bath from Cat
Tor
A coloured version of a one of the earliest cards on this website |
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Matlock Bath from Cat
Tor (2)
This sepia card probably dates from about from about 1910 or
so and shows the Road-House that was
connected to the New Bath |
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Matlock Bath from
the Heights of Jacob, 1908
Popular view of Matlock Bath from the Heights of Jacob |
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Matlock Bath from
the Heights of Jacob, 1911
Early autumn view looking down into the valley. Colour. There's
also a black and white, slightly larger, version of this view
under the "Just Images" section |
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Matlock Bath
from the Heights of Jacob, about 1912 |
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}
} Matlock Bath
from the Palais Royal (Old Pavilion)
} Two very similar views that late nineteenth century and early
twentieth century
} visitors to Matlock Bath's Old Pavilion would have seen
}
} |
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Matlock Bath: View
from Starkholmes, 1908
A wonderful panoramic view of Matlock Bath and Masson hillside |
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Matlock Bath from
Waterloo Road |
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Matlock Bath: North
Promenade, an Edwardian Post Card
Here is Matlock Bath's North Parade, from the bottom of Holme
Road looking south |
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Matlock Bath: North
Parade, early twentieth century (1)
North Parade (part of) in the first decade of the twentieth
century |
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Matlock
Bath: North Parade, early twentieth century (2) *New*
The Promenade railings were being replaced. |
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Matlock Bath: North
Parade, 1908
Coloured postcard showing Fountain Villas |
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Matlock Bath: The
Parade
A photograph from the 1928 Ward Lock Guide |
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Matlock Bath:
North Parade
A photograph from the 1928 Ward Lock Guide. Shows the memorial |
 |
}
} Matlock Bath: North
Parade about 1960
} Two photographs - one is of one the shops in 1960 or so (Mr.
Gale's Gift
} Shop) and the other is a more recent one of North Parade,
taken after the
} A6 had been widened
} |
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Matlock Bath:
North Parade, Albion Hotel Restaurant
Postcard of the restaurant's interior |
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}
}
}
} Matlock
Bath: Albion Hotel Restaurant, North Parade - Card
} Card printed for Mr. Graves, the proprietor
}
}
} |
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Matlock
Bath: Albion Boarding House, North Parade, about 1900
Photograph of the outside |
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Matlock
Bath: North Parade, Bank Holiday Crowds, 1905
A photograph by Percy Rowbottom |
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Matlock Bath:
The Parade
Edwardian view of the Parade and the Promenade |
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Matlock
Bath: Sanger's Circus, 1900 *New*
Parade through the village of a famous
English Circus
|
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Matlock Bath:
Photograph of the Promenade Café, North Parade
Taken during the Second World War |
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Photograph
of North Parade, Matlock Bath
Probably taken just after the First World War |
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North Parade
in the 1920s, Matlock Bath
The George Hotel and Boden's shop |
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Matlock Bath: View
from River Derwent |
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Matlock Bath: River
Derwent from Lovers Walk, 1926 |
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Lovers' Walk, Matlock
Bath |
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Matlock Bath:
Lover's Walks and River Derwent, Edwardian card
Delightful card showing three young girls |
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Matlock
Bath: Aviaries and Monkey Houses, Lovers' Walks *New*
One of Matlock Bath's lesser known inter-war attractions
|
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Matlock
Bath: Lovers' Walks, 1950s
This is a really high quality photograph |
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Matlock
Bath: Steps and Woodland Walk on Lovers' Walks *New*
Early twentieth century |
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Lovers'
Walks, Matlock Bath, 1914 *New*
At the outbreak of war |
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}
} Matlock Bath,
Lovers' Walks, 1932
} Two photographs from a Ward Lock Guide
}
} |
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Matlock Bath, New Bath
Hotel (1)
Includes a quote from one of the Ward Lock Guides |
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Matlock Bath: New Bath
Hotel (2)
One of Matlock Bath's oldest hotels and where people came for
the medicinal properties of the water, general view taken from
Cat Tor |
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Matlock
Bath: New Bath Hotel (3) *New*
It is possible that this photo was taken to mark the opening
of the New Bath Hotel's outdoor swimming pool |
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Matlock Bath: New Bath
Hotel (4) *New*
View of the New Bath, and enlargement showing the stone built
houses on Clifton Road |
|
Matlock
Bath: New Bath Hotel and Cat Tor, 1930s (5) *New*
The back of the hotel, with the pool and tennis courts |
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}
}
} Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel Booklet,
about 1900
} The front and back covers
}
} |
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Matlock
Bath: New Bath Hotel Booklet, about 1900 (2)
One of the photographs from the booklet |
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}
} Matlock Bath: New
Bath Hotel - the Outdoor Swimming Pool
} Two postcards of the hotel's swimming pool.
} Both cards probably date from the 1930s.
}
} |
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Matlock
Bath: Industrial Exhibition, Grand Pavilion, 1946 *New*
Help and advice on possible careers for school leavers in post-war
Britain was available in the Matlocks.
An exhibition was held at the Grand Pavilion |
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Matlock
Bath: Musical Festival, 1961 *New*
A little about the former Annual Musical Festival, with programme
cover.
The event concluded with evening concerts performed in the Grand
Pavilion. |
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Matlock Bath: The
Grand Pavilion (The Kursaal), 1915
Matlock Bath's New Pavilion, built in 1910, was originally
known as the Kursaal |
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Matlock Bath:
The Grand Pavilion, 1920s |
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Matlock
Bath: The Grand Pavilion Ballroom, before 1928 *New*
The Pavilion ballroom, where dances were held on Saturday nights.
Within these walls romance blossomed for many locals |
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Matlock Bath:
Grand Pavilion and Spar Shop
The New Pavilion and the Heights of Abraham on Masson hillside |
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Matlock
Bath: The Grand Pavilion, about 1950 |
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Matlock Bath: The Promenade,
about 1915 |
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Matlock Bath: The Promenade *New*
This water feature opposite the old Fountain Baths disappeared
when the road was widened |
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Matlock Bath:
Promenade and Gardens
The lamp, surrounded by the gazebo, was replaced by Matlock
Bath's War Memorial |
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The Promenade,
Matlock Bath, 1903 *New*
A photograph from a Ward Lock Guide |
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Matlock Bath:
Promenade and Memorial *New* |
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Matlock Bath:
Lovers' Walks and the Band Stand
The Band Stand, or Band Kiosk as it was originally called,
is almost 120 years old (or it will be when the Olympics take
place) |
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Matlock Bath: River
Derwent and Promenade *New*
Showing one of the old thatched kiosks |
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Matlock
Bath, The Old Pavilion, 1903 - the Palais Royal
A photograph from a Ward Lock Guide |
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Road Widening
at Matlock Bath, 1967 *New*
A series of five photographs showing the work in progress |
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Matlock Bath: The Royal
Hotel
Matlock Bath's top class hotel, which replaced The Old Bath
Hotel, was burnt down in a fire |
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Matlock
Bath: The Royal Hotel and garden *New*
Matlock Bath's top class Royal Hotel had wonderful gardens.
Postcard and 1903 advertisement |
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Matlock
Bath: The Royal Hotel, Pavilion and Holy Trinity Church *New*
A largish crowd assembled on a rough piece of ground watching
a play being performed on an open stage |
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Matlock Bath: The
Royal Hotel, with the large extension *New*
The most significant conference that ever took place there was
during the First World War when the first Boy Scout Commissioners'
Conference was held there |
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Matlock Bath:
Royal Hotel & Baths |
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}
}
} Royal Hotel & Baths,
Matlock Bath (2) *New*
} This postcard shows the later extension at the rear which survived
the fire of
} 1929. The second postcard added in Feb 2010
} |
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}
}
} Matlock
Bath: Royal Hotel Brochure, about 1908 *New*
} Several photographs from a small brochure about "The
Royal Hotel and Bathing
} Establishment"
}
} |
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The Pavilion, Church and Royal Hotel, about
1905 *New*
"Hold to light card", and a rare view of below the main building
of the Switchback |
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Matlock Bath:
The Great Petrifying Well, 1932 |
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Matlock
Bath: Mr. Buxton's Royal Museum & the Great Petrifying Well
Two images. Photograph from a Ward Lock Guide and a coloured
postcard The second image is *New*
|
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}
}
} Matlock
Bath: Mr. Buxton's Royal Museum, Interior *New*
} Two superb early twentieth century photographs
of the interior of a spar shop
}
}
} |
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Matlock
Bath: The Rutland Arms & Fairview Terrace
One of two photographs, taken in the early twentieth century,
of the buildings opposite Masson Mill |
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Matlock
Bath: The Rutland Arms & Masson Mill
This is the second photograph, although the Mill is the main
focus here |
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Matlock Bath: The
Southern Entrance to the Dale, 1900-1910
Scarthin Rock |
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Scarthin Nick and
the Greyhound Pond, about 1905
A large pond is a wonderful asset for any community but during
the nineteenth century Scarthin's residents faced some public
health issues |
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Scarthin
Nick : Staffordshire Row, 1905
Late eighteenth century terraced houses, built by Arkwright |
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Nos.
1 and 2 South Parade, Matlock Bath, 1906 *New*
1 and 2 South Parade are the premises next door to the Fish Pond
Hotel |
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Matlock Bath:
South Parade - an Edwardian Postcard
Very pretty coloured postcard of South Parade and the Heights
of Abraham |
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Matlock
Bath: Photograph of Museum Parade & The Pitchings, 1909
A lovely clear B&W photograph taken by an Australian visitor |
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Matlock
Bath: South Parade and the Heights of Abraham, 1905
Hand coloured postcard, taken shortly after the death of Queen
Victoria |
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Matlock Bath: Postcard
of South Parade, 1909
Slightly different from the previous two images |
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Matlock
Bath: South Parade, 1910
It shows Matlock Bath's very tall policeman |
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Matlock Bath:
South Parade, early twentieth century
Queen Series postcard |
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Matlock
Bath: South Parade, Bank Holiday Crowds, 1905
A photograph by Percy Rowbottom |
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Matlock
Bath: South Parade, 1920s
A photograph taken by a local man, probably of a bank holiday
crowd |
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Matlock Bath:
South Parade & Green Lane, about 1900
Now includes 1903 advert for the Gladiator Cycle made by Mr
Ashby |
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Matlock
Bath: South Parade & the Pitchings, a drawing
Here is a print taken from a drawing done by Mr. Frank Clay.
The drawing and some of the text was originally in a different
section of this website |
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Matlock Bath
Station and High Tor
Matlock Bath station was built in the style of a Swiss chalet.
It was extended in the 1890s. Includes photos of the station
today |
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Matlock
Bath: Midland Express Passing Through the Station
Early twentieth century card of the station and the goods yard |
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Matlock Bath:
Station House and the Last Station Master
Two twentieth century photographs, with some details of the
railway and previous station masters |
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Matlock Bath: Temple
Hotel
The Temple Hotel is one of Matlock Bath's oldest hotels |
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Matlock Bath: Temple
Walk
Temple Walk was constructed to connect the Old Bath Hotel with
the Temple. There was an interesting find! |
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}
}
} Matlock Bath Today (1)
} Recent Photographs - North Parade and two of the bottom of
Holme Road
} Two out of three shown left
}
} |
 |
}
} Matlock Bath Today (2)
} Recent Photographs - View from the Heights of Abraham, plus
Temple Walk
} and Orchard Road from Upperwood Road, including the former
Prince of Wales
} Inn
} Two out of five shown left
}
} |
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} Matlock Bath Today (3)
} Recent Photographs. The information from the original Matlock
Bath Today
} page
} has been incorporated into this page, with more pictures
of South Parade,
} plus a couple of North Parade
} Two out of eight shown left |
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Matlock Bath Today (4) *New*
Recent Photographs. Two pictures of the former Colour Works
and one of the High Tor Tunnel, plus a little about building
the tunnel |
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}
}
} Matlock Bath Today (5)
} Recent Photographs. Two pictures taken from the top of Cat
Tor
}
} |
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Matlock Bath Today (6) *New*
Recent Photographs. Six pictures of the Bath in winter |
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Matlock Bath: Upper Wood
This is one of only two known pictures of Upperwood, which
is high on the hill above Matlock Bath and about 800 feet above
sea level |
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Matlock Bath:
Zoo Tea Gardens, Upper Wood
This wonderful but slightly eccentric building, possibly the
ultimate curiosity in garden shed design, used to be in Upper
Wood |
 |
Visitors
to Matlock Bath - Vick, Ashworth & Co.,
1904 *New*
Programme of an annual "works
outing" |
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Matlock Bath: Woodbank,
later Cromford Court
It was built by John Edward Lawton, a Cotton Manufacturer from
Manchester, who was in partnership with Frederic Charles Arkwright
at one stage |
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Matlock
Bath: Woodbank, 1910
Coloured view of Woodbank and Arkwright's Mason Mill taken from Harp Edge |
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Via Gellia, Rider Point nr. Matlock
Bath, 1909
Beautiful coloured postcard dating from 1909 |
 |
}
}
} Via Gellia, Derbyshire
} Two images. A postcard and a photograph from a Guide.
}
} |
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In Via Gellia, near Matlock Bath,
1906
|
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In the Via Gellia, about 1929
Pretty postcard of one of the cottages |
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Via Gellia, Tufa Cottage,
near Matlock Bath
A coloured postcard sent to my great aunt in 1905 |
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