Maps

The maps that used to be linked from here are now in a new section of the website.

Books

Links to images of scanned books that have a Matlock connection.
Most of the images will open in a new tab or window as they are too big to display on the page. Click the coloured link.

• "The AutoChrome Album of Matlock & District"
  
  
  
  Printed by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd. Collection of lovely views, plus some adverts.
  
  This collection consists of twelve views, two pages of adverts and the front cover (larger size) for you to enjoy. There's a superb picture of Crown Square showing both the tram about to depart and the shops that used to be on the Hall Leys. There are two pictures of Matlock Bank, both showing green fields where houses now are. The advertisers were Asbury, Barnard, Barnwell, Hartley, Marsden, Phillips, Potter, Pride and Statham. Incidentally, autochrome was the first method of colour photography using coloured starch pellets as a filter. (PC)
  
  
  
• "Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment Matlock. Established 1853."
  
  Publication dated about 1925, though if anyone can provide a more accurate date we would be extremely grateful.
  Thirty two pages of images and text about Matlock's premier hydro. (PC)
• Front cover
• Title page with image : H. Douglas, Manager
• p.2 View of Hydro and Grounds
• p.3 Foreword
• p.4 Dining Room
• p.5 Tariff
• p.6 Empire Room
• p.7 Table d'Hôte Meals and other services
• p.8 Drawing Room
• p.9 History of Establishment with Image of Bowling Green and Lower Walk
• p.10 Lounge Corridor
• p.11 History of Establishment Continued plus Image of Putting Green
• p.12 Winter Gardens
• p.13 Amusements - Terrace with Hard Tennis Courts and Croquet Grounds
• p.14 Amusements Continued - Tennis Courts and Bowling Green
• p.15 Amusements Continued - Billiard Room and Bowling Green
• pp.16-17 [double page] View of the Private Grounds, Terraces and South Front
• p.18 Smedley's as a Health Resort by the late W. B. Hunter, M.D. with photo of Corner of the Smoke Room
• p.19 Smedley's as a Health Resort Continued showing Reading Room and Drawing Room
• p.20 Smedley's as a Health Resort Continued Images of Hard Tennis Court plus View on Farm
• p.21 Medical Department - Physicians : G.C.R. Harbinson M.D. B.Ch. B.A.O. (RUI) and R. MacLelland M.D. C.M. (Edin), Resident. Shows the Vichy Douche
• p.22 Ladies' and Gentlemen's Turkish Baths
• p.23 Bath Arrangements
• p.24 Bath Arrangements continued - Images
  p.25 Bath Arrangements continued
• p.26 The Baths &c.
• p.27 The Baths &c. Continued Shows Interior of Plombière Bath
• p.28 Images of Radio Heat Bath and Diathermy and High Power Parabolic Reflector
• p.29 The Baths &c. Continued
• p.30 Ultra Violet Ray and High Frequency Treatments
• p.31 Sale Room and The Neighbourhood
• p.32 Matlock and District Map
  
  
  
  
• "Souvenir of Matlock Bath", 4th edition
  24 page booklet costing 1 penny. Published by Boots Cash Chemists, about 1897 (PC)
  
  Cover of the Sixth Edition, which is slightly different
  
  
• Front Cover
• p.1 List of Branches - Aberdare to London
• p.2 Matlock Bath from the Heights of Jacob
• p.3 South Parade & Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath / High Tor and River
• p.4 Promenade, Matlock Bath / Matlock Church
• p.5 High Tor, Matlock Bath
• p.6 Matlock Bath Shewing Heights of Abraham
• p.7 Black Rocks / Whitworth Hospital, Darley Dale
• p.8 Derwent Parade, Matlock Bath (shows river and landing stage) / Advert for Boots Cash Chemist
• p.9 Smedley's Matlock Bank / Pic Tor, Matlock Bridge
• p.10 Lea Hurst (home of Florence Nightingale) / A View of the Famous Lovers' Walks, Matlock Bath
• p.11 Cromford Church and Bridge / A Beautiful Woodland Scene (Glenorchy Chapel hidden amongst the trees)
• p.12 Lumsdale
• p.13 Lion's Face Rock, Dovedale
• p.14 Royal Hotel and Baths, Matlock Bath / Stepping Stones, Dovedale
• p.15 Twelve Apostles, Dovedale
• p.16 Watchman's Box, Dovedale / Quote from Pearson's Weekly (1897) with Jesse Boot, Managing Director in the footer
• p.17 Darley Church, Old Yew Tree / Wingfield Manor (associated with Mary Queen of Scots)
• p.18 List of Branches - London to York, including Matlock
• Rear Cover
  
  

• "The High Peak to Sherwood, The hills and dales of old Mercia", Thomas Tudor (1926).
  Lovely B & W drawings
  
  
  • St. John's, Matlock Bath, p.267.
    
    
    
    
  • Riber Hall, p.273
    
    
    

Books elsewhere on this web site

Several beautifully illustrated Tourist Guides of Matlock and Matlock Bath have been transcribed for this website, so are not presented as images.
To read them go to the Tourist Guides section.

Below is the link to the first Guide that I transcribed.

• "Bemroses' Guide to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, &c" by Hicklin, John (pub about 1869)
  The whole of the Matlock and Matlock Bath section has been transcribed by the webmistress.