Matlock and Matlock Bath Images |
Photographs, Postcards, Engravings & Etchings, elsewhere on either "The Andrews Pages" or the Internet |
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Links to images on either individual
web pages or to web sites that have a Matlock connection |
Some More Pages on This Website
With Photographs and Information |
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Other
pages within The Andrews Pages, mentioning Matlock & Matlock
Bath
Other Websites,
mentioning Matlock & Matlock Bath
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- An Old
Matlock Pics group on Facebook was set up in 2014. Andrew
Bagshaw is its head administrator.
- Rosemary
Lockie's Wishful Thinking site, under Cromford.
Lovely old postcard, labelled "The Tors, entering Cromford," the
house shown is Scarthin Lodge, Matlock Bath. This was one of
the lodges for Willersley Castle and the gates can also be seen
in this picture.
Also see the Images
Index on Wishful Thinking for other places
in the county.
- Ann
Rayner's engraving of "Matlock Bath" [Sorry,
but this link seems to be broken. I am checking it]
The engraving was executed on Ashford black marble. The engraving
is in now Buxton art gallery and there's a photograph and information
about Ann, her husband and children, most of whom were artists,
on the Dudley Mall website.
See daughter Louise's biography on
the Matlock website.
- Matlock
- Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment
John Palmer's image of the Grand Dining Hall, about 1890
(though possibly later), from a "visiting card" by
W W Winter.
- The
Victorian Turkish Bath Databank
A not-for-profit educational project in the UK by Malcolm
Shifrin. Malcolm has included quite a few images about hydropathy
treatments, amongst which are:
Hydropathy & the
wet sheet pack | The
water cure: | getting
well drench'd, & wrench'd, & restored to health
Smedley's
Hydro at Matlock Bank | The
water cure: the wet sheet pack
- 'Life in a Lens'
A museum in Matlock Bath dedicated to presenting the history
of photography in an accessible manner.
[Unfortunately, after almost 20 years in Matlock Bath, Peter Hague's Victorian Teashop and Museum
closed in 2019. This link will be deleted shortly.]
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Other
Websites, More General Images
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- Britain
from Above - aerial photographs
- English
Heritage have placed more than 20,000 previously unseen
images on the internet. Try searching by Derbyshire - there
are quite a few, including Masson Mill
- The FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge
Has a lovely painting of High
Tor, by John Crome (about 1811). This link is currently unavailabe
bu the image is currently
available on a temporary website.
- National
Portrait Gallery - use their search
facility to search the collection for more pictures of Florence Nightingale and
Richard Arkwright
- Photographs
of Derby and Derbyshire
Andy Savage's site had more than three thousand pictures when
I last looked
Then and Now compares a view of Matlock Bridge and the Bank
with a photograph from the 1950's
- Tate Gallery
London
Amongst the collection is:
Water
colour of the 'Rocks at Matlock' by Sir Robert Ker Porter
(1777 - 1842), which is part of the Oppé Collection.
- Picture
the Past
A project digitising the photos of Derby City Libraries and Derby
Museums, and Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Libraries.
The biggest photo resource on Derby and Derbyshire, and one of
the biggest such resources in the country.
- Mace Archive - Media Archive for Central England (video clips)
There used to be a sub-section for both Matlock and Matlock Bath
but this seems to have gone. Just type either place into the
search box and you will find several options
Matlock | Matlock
Bath (original links unavailable)
- Photographers & Photographic
Studios of Derbyshire, England
Ongoing study of 19th and early 20th Century Derbyshire studio
photographers. With index of known dates of operation, plus profiles
of selected studios. By Brett Payne, of Tauranga, New Zealand
- The site to Photographs by Julie Woodhouse, who lived in Tansley, is no longer available. Her work included photographs
of landscapes from various parts of the world, including many of Derbyshire, and which are/were commercially available.
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