Percy Rowbottom's photograph shows one of the covered wagonettes that Firth had described a couple of years before this card was posted, somewhat unflatteringly, as spoiling the village. He wrote of "the bawling of the drivers of brakes and waggonettes^[1]". Anyway, there is only one on this picture and it looks quite charming to the modern eye though would, undoubtedly, have been fairly noisy as it rattled along and when the drivers shouted out to warn unwary pedestrians.

Rowbottom was standing on the pathway going up the hill beside the Fish Pond Hotel to take his picture.

At the bottom of the picture is Matlock Bath's very tall policeman, whose name the webmistress does not know but who has passed into the village's history because of his size!