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| In the Via Gellia, about 1929 |
| Matlock Bath : Twentieth Century Photographs, Postcards, Engravings & Etchings |
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The writer J.B. Firth, however, was not easy to please and he expressed some disappointment at "this much praised highway. Lovely it undoubtedly is, for it lies in a deep ravine, whose limestone sides rise precipitously to a great height and are clad with trees to the very top. Such a road cannot fail to please and the dense mass of varying greens gives perpetual delight to the eye. But when that is said one has said all. The ravine keeps an almost constant width and never discloses its full delights. ... The pedestrian is always being tantalised with the hope that at the next turn of the road there will be a superb prospect, but the prospect never comes"[1]. In 1929 all was not well in the Via Gellia and a complaint was made at a meeting of Bonsall Urban District Council regarding the state of some of the walls and fences. They were in such a bad state that pedestrians were liable to fall into the brook at the roadside. The Council decided to draw the attention of the owners of the nearby mill, E. H. Bailey Ltd., to the matter[2]. |
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"Matlock. In the Via Gellia" Published by Judges' Ltd. Postcard Picture by Judges' Ltd., Hastings, England No.11963. Unposted In the collection of provided by and © Pauline Jordan. Information researched, written by and © Ann Andrews. Intended for personal use only. |
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| References:
[1] Firth, J.B. (1908) "Highways
and Byways in Derbyshire" MacMillan & Co., London
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