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- Matlock & Matlock Bath - The Complete Web Site for Matlock and Matlock Bath Genealogy & Local
History (Index)
- Matlock Bath, The Switzerland of England, with Scarthin and Matlock Dale
- Matlock, famous for hydropathy cures in the nineteenth century, with Lumsdale, Riber
and Starkholmes
- Arkwright and His Cotton Mill in
Matlock Bath
- Bank Road & the Steep-Gradient
Tramway: Matlock's Cable Tramway, the only one
of its kind and a remarkable piece of engineering.
Now with 20 images.
- People of the Past: Short
biographies of people who have had associations with Matlock
and Matlock Bath, representing a cross-section of society
through the ages
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Churches
and Chapels
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- Empire Day, 1914 - Parade of the Matlock Branch of the National Reserve and the Fire Brigade
- Flooding in the Matlocks
- Lead Mining in Matlock & Matlock Bath
- Miscellany:
Matlock's charities, copyholders, Domesday entry, the Manor, police stations, population figures, voters
in 1832, clubs & societies - and the band
- Matlock & Matlock Bath: Inspiration of Poets. Poems by Erasmus Darwin, John
Betjeman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others
- Schools in Earlier Times: How and why the schools were set up, against the background
of the development of the English Education System
- Stone Quarrying in the Matlocks: Quarrying for both limestone and gritstone has been a major industry
- The Surname MATLOCK: Is there a link between the place and the surname?
- Water cures made Matlock and Matlock Bath famous. Matlock Bath was a famous Spa. Matlock developed
as a centre for Hydropathy
- The Great Matlock Will Case. The official account of the eight day trial
in 1864 to finally settle the question as to whether three codicils found after the death of George Nuttall,
Esq., land surveyor of Matlock, Derbyshire, were genuine or forgeries
- Census Index, the links page to all census transcripts
- Abbreviations used (1851 census onwards)
- What's included (1851 census onwards)
- 1841 Census of Matlock and Matlock Bath, including Scarthin, Starkholmes, Lumsdale and Riber, Index
- 1851 Census of Matlock and Matlock Bath, including Scarthin, Starkholmes,
Lumsdale and Riber, Index
- 1851 Religious Census. Eleven places of public worship in Matlock, Matlock Bath,
Scarthin and Starkholmes completed a return.
- 1861 Census of Matlock and Matlock Bath, including Scarthin, Starkholmes, Lumsdale and Riber,
Index
- 1871 Census of Matlock and Matlock Bath, including Scarthin, Starkholmes, Lumsdale
and Riber, Index
- 1881 Census of Matlock and Matlock Bath, including Scarthin, Starkholmes,
Lumsdale and Riber, Index
- 1891 Census of Matlock and Matlock Bath, including Scarthin, Starkholmes,
Lumsdale and Riber, Index
- 1901 Census for Matlock and District, Index
(complete transcripts of Scarthin Nick, Matlock Bath, Matlock Dale, Matlock Bank, Matlock Bridge, Dale Road, Holt Lane,
Snitterton Road, Crown Square, Lime Tree Hill, Bank Road, The Dimple, Allen Hill, Rutland Street, Smedley Street,
Wellington Street, Chesterfield Road, Matlock Moor, Lumsdale, Bentley Bridge, Matlock Cliff, Starkholmes, Riber, Willersley,
and Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment)
- Church Records: 'Hatches, Matches and Dispatches' - Index to CMB
About the Parish Church (St. Giles') Baptisms and Burials, including Bishops Transcripts and Parish
Registers, Gaps, Slash in the date, Additional Notes and Abbreviations
- Farley Congregational Church, Baptisms 1904 -1905. Two marriages, 1905 - 1906
- Glenorchy Independent Chapel Baptisms 1785-1836
- Glenorchy Independent Chapel Members List from 1864
- Matlock United Reformed Church - Deaths
- Matlock Bath Holy Trinity Banns, from 1846 - a selection of
- Matlock Bath Holy Trinity Burials, 1845-1870 - alphabetical list
- Matlock Green Congregational Church Members Roll, 1866 - 1919
- Quaker (Society of Friends) Marriages
- Starkholmes Methodist Baptisms 1881-1895
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1637 - 1856 Index
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1637-1649
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1650-1659
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1660-1671
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1672-1683
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1684-1704
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1705-1729
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1731-1751
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1752-1769
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1770-1779
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1780-1792
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1793-1804
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1805-1812
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1813-1821
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1822-1829
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1830-1837
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1838-1843
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1844-1849
- Baptisms - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1850-1856
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish
Church 1668 - 1856 Index
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1637-1649
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1650-1659
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1660-1669
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1670-1681
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1682-1698
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1699-1713
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1714-1725
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1726-1735
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1736-1751
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1752-1769
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1770-1779
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1780-1791
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1792-1801
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1802-1812
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1813-1824
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1825-1835
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1836-1846
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, 1847-1856
- Burials - St. Giles' Parish Church, Additions
- Matlock St. Giles' Church Burials : Clerks Books, 1819, 1842
- Marriages - St. Giles' Parish Church 1637 - 1837 Index
- Find a Name - quickly search
the history pages, the guides and the photographs for surnames
- Frequently Asked Questions - see References and General Information
below
- Guides describing Matlock &
Matlock Bath, transcripts of - Index
- Advertisements in Tourist Guides
- "A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain" by Daniel Defoe, 1724-6.
Matlock [Bath] extract
- "The Beauties of England and Wales" by John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley Vol III (1802) Part 1. Matlock,
Matlock Bath and Matlock Dale
- "The Beauties of England and Wales" by John Britton and Edward
Wedlake Brayley Vol III (1802) Part 2. Cotton Manufacture, Willersley & Sir Richard Arkwright
- "Picturesque Excursions from Derby to Matlock Bath and its vicinity; being a Descriptive
Guide" (1818) by Henry Moore - Index
- Moore, pp.20-27 - To Willersley Castle, and Through Matlock Dale. With etching
of "Matlock Church"
- Moore, pp.27-32 - With engraving's of "The Dungeon Tors" and "Romantic
Bridge Rutland Cavern"
- Moore, pp.32-36 - With etching "View Opposite the Museum"
- Moore, pp.36-41 - With etching "View From Mason"
- Moore, pp.42-46 - With etching "The High Tor"
- Moore, pp.47-51 - Matlock Water (Pilkington)
- Moore, pp.52-56 - Minerals
- Moore, pp.57-63 - Excursion to the Hirst Stones, Cawdor Tors, Village of
Matlock, Riber Hill, Cascade, and Cromford Bridge. And Excursion [first page only] to Stainedge, Slack, ...
- "The Panorama of
Matlock and Its Environs With The Tour of the Peak"
(1827) by H. Barker - Index, with title page
- Barker, iii.-iv
Preface and Map - with view from the Museum Garden
- Barker, pp.01-11 Matlock
Bath, The Waters
- Barker, pp.12-20 Royal
Museum, Caverns &c. Devonshire Cavern
- Barker, pp.20-30 Rides
and Excursions - Round Matlock, not exceeding the distance
of one post. The village of Matlock, Chatsworth, Wirksworth,
Bakewell, Ashover, Chesterfield. Mineralogy, Dovedale,
Kedleston
- Barker, pp.30-40 Tour
of the Peak - Ashford, Eyam, Monsal Dale, Middleton
Dale, Castleton, Peak Cavern and Scenery, About Castleton,
Bagshaw's Cavern, Mam Tor, or the Shivering Mountain,
Odin Mine.
- Barker, pp.41-51 Tour
of the Peak - the Fluor Spar Mine, Woodlands, Chee Tor,
Tideswell, Weston, Eldon Hole, Ebbing and Flowing Well,
Peak Forest, Buxton. Conclusion
- Barker Frontispiece
from the 3rd edition, 1828
- "The Gem of the Peak"
by William Adam - Matlock Bath in 1840
- "The Matlock Tourist;
and Guide through the Peak, embracing Matlock Bath, Haddon,
Chatsworth and C", Henricus (1843) The Museums
- "Days in Derbyshire",
by T S Hall (1863), - Index (Matlock Bath, Matlock
Bank, Riber, Dethick and Lea extracts)
- Hall (1), Chapter
the Fourth. Matlock Dale, pp. 33-46
- Hall (2), Chapter
the Fifth. Matlock Bank and Darley Dale, Part extract
pp. 47-52
- Hall (3), Chapter the Sixth. Via Gellia, Stonus, and
Fox Cloud (the first page or so)
- Hall (4), Chapter the Seventh. Riber, Dethick and Lea
- Hall (5), Advertisement
- Bemrose Circulating Library, Matlock Bath
- Hall (6), Advertisement
- Hartle's Museum, Matlock Bath
- Hall (7), Advertisement
- Hodgkinson's Hotel, Matlock Bath
- Hall (8), Advertisement
- Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment, Matlock Bank
(now both image and transcript)
- Hall (9), Advertisement
- The Villa, Matlock Bath
- Hall (10), Advertisement
- Walker's Bath Terrace Hotel, Matlock Bath
- Hall (11),
Advertisement - Walker's Royal Museum, Matlock Bath
- Hall (12),
Advertisements : Hall Advertisements pp.13 - 30 (Nine)
(now both image and transcripts)
- Hall (13),
Advertisements : Hall Advertisements pp.64 - 70 (Six)
(now both image and transcripts)
- "Holmes Hand Book
to Matlock Bath & Neighbourhood, including Chatsworth,
Haddon Hall, Dovedale" (1866)
- "On
Foot Through the Peak; or a Summer Saunter Through
the Hills and Dales of Derbyshire", by James
Croston (1868). Index, with title page and some
notes about the author
- Croston (1),
Chapter XIII (part) pp.215-222,with engraving - May
Dale Mine - Matlock Bridge - Matlock Church - Curious
strata - Hydropathic Establishment - Matlock Dale -
The High Tor - A subject for Geologists - Barytes Mill
- Crystallized Cavern - Variegated Barytes - Matlock
Bath
- Croston (2),
Chapter XIV, pp.223-232 - Matlock Bath ; its early
history - The first Bath - Spar Manufacture - Museums
- Petrifaction working - Thermal Springs - Natural
attractions - Byron and Mary Chaworth - An evening
stroll - The new Church - The Stables - A Rendezvous
for Idlers - A motley Company - The Museum Parade -
View from the Terrace - Sunset - Moonlight Scene -
A Thunderstorm - Late Excursionists
- Croston (32),
Chapter XV (part), pp.233-240 - Matlock Bath - A Morning
Walk - Glenorchy Chapel - Willersley Castle - Cromford
Church - The Bridge - A Dangerous Leap - Lea Hurst,
the home of Florence Nightingale - Anthony Babington
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- Croston (4),
Chapter XV (part) pp.240-248 - Cromford Mills - Scarthin
Nick - Caverns: their formation - A Money-getting Race
- Heights of Abraham - Sylvan Shade - The Cavern Terrace
- Repose - Montgomery; his Impromptu on Matlock scenery
- Victoria Tower - A Beauteous Scene - Reminiscences
- A Magnificent Landscape -
- Croston (5),
Chapter XVI (part), pp.249-255 - A Winding Descent
- The Rutland Cavern - Ancient Workings - Minerals
and Crystallisations - The Roman Gallery - An Embowered
Path - Volcanic Agency - Romantic Rocks - Silent Solitude
-
- Croston (6),
Chapter XVI (part), pp.255-260 - The Cumberland Cavern
- Underground Scenery - The Harpsichord - A Rugged
Road - Snow Fossil - The Roman Hall - Chaos - The Queen's
Palace - Organic Remains - A Mischievous Propensity -
The Sailor's Hall - Stalactite Encrustations - Return
to Daylight - A Charming View - The Devonshire Cavern
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- Croston
(7), The Great Rutland Cavern, Matlock Bath
- Croston (8),
Thomas Cardin's High Tor Grotto, Matlock Dale, advertisement
- Croston
(9), Five Smaller Advertisements. In Matlock : Lime
Tree View Hydro (William Cartledge), Rockside Hydro
(Charles Rowland) and William Crowder In Matlock Bath
- The Prince of Wales Hotel (Henry Gordon), Samuel
Hardy
- Croston (10), Advertisement for Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment,
Matlock Bank
- "Bemroses' Guide"
(1869) to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, with illustrations. Index, with title page
- "The Forty Shires"
(1882) by Charlotte M Mason. A Short Quotation about Matlock
- "All About Derbyshire"
by Edward Bradbury (1884), a railway enthusiast. Transcript
of Chapter XXI, with illustrations. Index and title page
- Images - Photographs, Postcards,
Engravings & Etchings (Index)
- Images - Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Century
- The Popular Album
of Matlock. Published by the Sheffield Telegraph
sometime between 1891 and 1898
- Famous Derbyshire Health Resorts. The Matlocks, about
1892. Part 1. This paper backed booklet would have
been given to guests of both the New Bath and the Royal
hotels when Thomas Tyack was the proprietor of both
establishments (part 1 of 2)
- Famous Derbyshire Health Resorts. The Matlocks, about
1892. Part 2. This paper backed booklet would have
been given to guests of both the New Bath and the Royal
hotels when Thomas Tyack was the proprietor of both
establishments (part 2 of 2)
- Matlock: Engraving of Matlock Bridge from an original
by Turner, 1795. A finely engraved late 18th century
view of the County Bridge by Turner, published in J.
Walker's The Itinerant
- Matlock
High Torr &C, 1751 and 1776. Idyllic rural scene
on the banks of the River Derwent below High Tor. Two
eighteenth century images.
- Matlock
Bath: Old Bath Hotel Engraving, 1776. A thermal spring
was discovered here in 1696. The Old Bath Hotel was
developed for those seeking the curative powers of
the spring water.
- Matlock
Bath from Lovers Walk, 1779 - engraving from "The
Modern Universal British Traveller".
- The Cascade
near Matlock Bath, late 18th century
- Matlock
Bath: High Tor, 1785. Engraving by Samuel Middiman
from a drawing by John Smith, published in "Select
Views in Great Britain"
- Matlock
Bath, 1806 - Engraving from "A Guide to
all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places; with a
Description of the Lakes".
- Matlock
Bath from the Temple House, 1810 - hand coloured
engraving.
- Matlock
Bath: View of High Tor, by F. Chantrey, 1822. Engraving
of a Francis Chantrey drawing published in
"Peak Scenery".
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade, from a sketch by Samuel Rayner.
1830 lithograph from a sketch by Rayner, who lived
in Matlock Bath.
- Matlock
Bath: High Tor by Thomas Allom, about 1836. Engraved
by J. W. Lowry from a drawing by Thomas Allom.
- Matlock
Bath: Ferry Over the Derwent, about 1836. Engraving
for "The Counties of Chester, Derby, Nottingham,
Leicester, Rutland, & Lincoln Illustrated".
- Matlock
Bath: Cumming's Old Bath Hotel, card dating from the 1840s
and an engraving from Adam's "Gem of the Peak"..
- Matlock
Bath: Museum Parade, Old Bath Terrace & the
Heights, 1840. With William Adam's description of the
view from Old Bath Terrace from "The
Gem of the Peak".
- Matlock
Bath: Adam & Co., Royal Museum Advertisement,
1840. Two page advertisement for Adam and Co's Royal
Museum.
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade and Fishpond, before 1840. Vignette
engraving published by F. and J. Harwood.
- Matlock
Bath: Engraving, before 1840. Steel engraving of
Matlock Bath, from a drawing by W. H. Bartlett.
- Matlock
Bath: River Derwent. Engraving of the River Derwent.
From an undated American guide from the latter half
of the 19th century. With quotation about the village.
- Matlock
Bath: Romantic Rocks or Dungeon Tors, 1864. Secluded
rocks popular with nineteenth century tourists.
- Matlock
Bath, from the Heights of Abraham, 1866-78. Nineteenth
century photograph of the south of Matlock Bath.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, late 1870s (1). One of two early
photographs of Fountain Villas and Derwent Parade.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, late 1870s (2). The second of
two early photographs of Fountain Villas and Derwent
Parade, this one showing the Ladies' College.
- Matlock
Bath: CDV of North Parade, 1870s (3). The Derwent
before Jubilee Bridge was built and the Parade before
the promenade was developed.
- Matlock
Bath: The Devonshire Hotel & North Parade,
1870s. Carte de Visite of the southern end of North
Parade, showing the streetside view of the hotel and
mostly early Victorian buildings on the opposite side
of the road.
- Matlock Bath:
Postcards dated about 1890. The River Derwent and
Derwent Terrace, Matlock Bath, probably from the
railway bridge. Three images.
- Matlock
Bath: River Derwent & the Devonshire Hotel, 1890. Pretty
postcard and albumen photo of buildings reminiscent of
Venice on the riverbank of the Derwent in Matlock Bath.
They were eventually demolished for road widening.
- Matlock
Bath: River Derwent & Heights - a CDV
from the late 1800s. Carte de Visite taken by William
Potter. Plus a lucky escape from drowning and a long
lived resident who enjoyed fishing.
- Matlock
Bath: Jubilee Bridge, The Promenade, 1890.
- Matlock Bath
in the 1890s. A Victorian photograph that was taken
outside the Temple Hotel between 1887 and 1898, looking
towards Waterloo Road and Holme Road
- Matlock
Bath: Jubilee Bridge, River and Promenade, 1890s.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade and Ferry from Bridge, 1892.
- Matlock
Bath: Derwent Terrace, 1892.
- Matlock
Bath from the Heights of Abraham, 1892. Visitors
to Matlock Bath in 1892 were determined to enjoy
themselves even when the weather was bad. The Royal
Hotel had some well known guests, too. Yet Old Bath Hill
(Fishpond Hill today) proved to be very controversial.
There were even nocturnal explosions.
- Matlock
Bath: Ashfield, previously The Villa. This was the Old
Bath-house and the oldest house in Matlock Bath.
- Matlock
Bath: Brunswood Terrace. The houses were built in the
1860s. Photographed by William Potter. The CDV was
taken to Canada by a local man who emigrated there
in 1913.
- Matlock
Bath : Bath Terrace Hotel, 1891-3. The oldest photograph
of the former hotel.
- Matlock
Bath : Bath Terrace Hotel, Tariff of Charges, 1891-3.
Beautifully illustrated booklet dating from Robert
Watson's time as the proprietor.
- Matlock
Bath: The Church and Boat House, 1887-9.
- Matlock
Bath: Dale Road, Stereoview. Tor House and other
property near the colour works.
- Matlock
Bath: Dale Road, 1895.
- Matlock
Bath and the Heights of Abraham, 1890s.
- Stereoview
of Matlock Bath and Holme Road, 1870s. The earliest
development on either side of the relatively newly
built Holme Road, on the hillside below the Heights
of Abraham.
- Matlock Bath: Stereoview of Lovers' Walk, 1859-62.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel Stereoview (taken between 1856
and 1876). The New Bath Hotel was managed by Miss Ivatts and Mrs Jordan and had some illustrious visitors.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel, from Wild Cat Tor. CDV of both
the hotel and the properties nearby, with a contemporary description of the hotel by William Adam. An
engraving of the hotel and its famous lime tree, from Adam's books, has been added..
- Matlock Bath: The Pavilion on the Hillside, mid
1880s. Panoramic view, showing the recently opened Royal Hotel, the Church, the newly built Pavilion and
the Victorian Houses on Clifton Road.
- Matlock Bath from the Royal Pavilion (Palais
Royal), 1890, two very similar views.
- Matlock Bath: Petrifying Well Stereoview.
Includes an enlargement. The objects 19th century visitors wanted to be petrified.
- Matlock Bath: Royal Hotel Obelisk,
Donkeys for Hire. A nineteenth century stereoview.
- Matlock Bath: South Parade Stereoviews, by two early photographers.
Matlock Bath's first resident photographer, John Clarke, lived on South Parade. Another local, John Latham, took an earlier
view of the Parade..
- Matlock Bath: High Tor & Railway Station, 1862. Vignette
engraving of High Tor and Matlock Bath station, with its distinctive chalet-style roof.
- Matlock Bath: The High Tor, the Railway and the Gas Works,
mid 1860s. CDV taken by Mr. or Mrs. Petschler.
- Stereographic Photo of Matlock Bath Station, 1860. A hold-to-light
tissue stereographic photo, with an element of surprise.
- Stereoview of Matlock Bath Station. Holiday crowds.
- Matlock Bath: The Ferry and Lovers' Walks. Stereoview
of the ferry and other boats, taken by Alfred Seaman
- Matlock Bath: Stereoview of the Ferry and Ferry House.
- Matlock Bath: The Ferry House, Spar Shop & Obelisk.
Rare nineteenth century photograph of the Ogden's shop, the Ferry House and the obelisk below the Royal Hotel.
- Matlock Bath: The Riverbank, Later to be the Derwent Gardens.
Dating from about 1880, this wonderfully clear photograph shows the land where the Derwent Gardens is today.
- Matlock Bath: Toll Bar at Artists' Corner, before 1879. Nineteenth
century photo of the Toll Gate opposite High Tor.
- Matlock Bath: Warm Walls Toll Bar, before 1879. Photograph
of Warm Walls that hung on the chimney wall in a classroom at Holy Trinity School in Matlock Bath for many years
- Matlock Bath: Upper Wood, with views of Matlock Bath & Starkholmes.
Late nineteenth century postcard showing the settlement. Taken about 1890.
- Matlock Bank: The Duke of Wellington and the Hascarlane
Toll Bar, 1892. Late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century building that became an inn. Unique view of
the former toll house, that was about to be demolished. With members of the Smith family. A second photo, from
the early 1940s, is included for comparison.
- Matlock Bridge, late 1880s. Late nineteenth century photo of Dale
Road, Matlock Bridge - and the Bank.
- Matlock Bridge & Bank, early 1890s. With Bridge House (Hall).
- Matlock: Bridge & Bank, early 1890s. Property development at the southern end of
Dale Road, the fire at the Old English Hotel and its subsequent re-building and re-furbishing. With 1881 notice of the Hotel's
Share Issue.
- Matlock Bank & Bridge, late 1890s. Includes the Bank's development, Council
rubbish tips and Matlock's Conservative Club.
- Matlock: Railway Bridge with Matlock Bank in the Distance, 1863. Engraving
from the sixth edition of Smedley's Practical Hydropathy showing the railway, the Boat House Inn and Matlock
Bank.
- Matlock Bank and Matlock Bridge, 1890s. Two late nineteenth century
views of Matlock Bank and Bridge, from the top of High Tor.
- Matlock Church, Farington's 1817 engraving. Engraving of his original drawing,
made in 1801. With information about the alterations by Peter Nightingale and others as well as Richard Arkwright..
- Matlock Old Church, 1870 & before. Matlock's Church between 1830 and 1870,
just before the final stage of more major rebuilding work. The chancel had been rebuilt in 1859. Here is a pre 1859
photo later used on a Christmas card, a woodcut from about 1830, a photo from 1862 and a slightly changed engraving.
- Matlock: St. Giles' Church, 1890s. The parish church before the renovation of 1897-8.
Includes the purchase of a safe for storing the parish registers, a new clock and a large number of oranges. Two images..
- Matlock Dale, Cottages, 1899 - designed by the architect Sir
Guy Dawber. His drawings were published in "The Building News".
- Matlock: Dale Road, Boat House Hotel & Bridge, 1870s.
Three rare views of the Boat House Hotel in Matlock Dale dating from Thomas Rawson's long tenure as the innkeeper, including
one of the first footbridge in the Dale, destroyed in the floods of 1881.
- Matlock Green: Knowleston Place, 1862. Vignette of Knowleston
Place engraved for the London publishers Rock & Co.
- Matlock: Chesterfield House Hydro, 1868. A steel engraving
of Ralph Davis' Chesterfield House Hydro, executed not long after it was built.
- Matlock: Mr. Cartledge's Lime Tree View Hydro, 1863 Advertisement.
Two page advertisement for William Cartledge's hydropathic establishment, published in the 1863 edition of John
Smedley's Practical Hydropathy
- Matlock House Hydropathic Establishment - Advertisement, with engraving, from
"Black's Guide to Derbyshire" (1888), with quotation from the guide and a later directory. Includes details
of the nineteenth century proprietors.
- Matlock: Plan of Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment, 1875
- Matlock: United Methodist Free Chapel, Smedley's Hydro, 1885
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydro Prospectus, 1885-6. Small folding brochure, with
details of the hydropathic establishment.
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydropathic Institution, 1890s. Grandeur had come
to Smedleys in the post Smedley era and there were major alterations to the building.
- Scarthin Nick From Allen's Hill, 1892 - the hamlet of Scarthin was for many
years part of Matlock Bath.
- Matlock: View From Matlock Bank - from John Smedley's "Practical
Hydropathy"
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydro, Starting Out - from John Smedley's "Practical
Hydropathy"
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydro, Public Drawing Room - from John Smedley's
"Practical Hydropathy"
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydro, Extending the Hydro - from John
Smedley's "Practical Hydropathy".Showing the second and third enlargements and includes a
contemporary description by William Adam.
- Matlock: Riber Hall engraving - from John Smedley's "Practical
Hydropathy", where the Smedley's lived for a time. It was the home of the Allen family in the
middle of the century
- Matlock Bath from the Heights of Abraham, an engraving by
C. Bailey - from John Smedley's "Practical Hydropathy"
- Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath - from John Smedley's "Practical
Hydropathy"
- Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment, Matlock Bank, from "Mrs.
Smedley's Ladies Manual" ..."It is always being enlarged".
- Matlock: Water Cures, Mr. Smedley's Baths, Boxes & Douches.
John Smedley designed a range of steam boxes, baths and douches, as well as some other gadgets, for use
at both the hydropathic establishment and the free hospital
- Lea Mills, one mile from Cromford Station, Derbyshire, from "Mrs.
Smedley's Ladies Manual"
- Engraving of Matlock Bath, from the Wild Cat Tor, from "Mrs.
Smedley's Ladies Manual"
- Engraving of High Tor Tunnel, Matlock Bath, from "Mrs.
Smedley's Ladies Manual"
- Riber Castle, Four Mid-Nineteenth Century Engravings, one
from Mrs. Smedley's book and three smaller ones from
John Smedley's book
- View from the Black Rocks, overlooking Cromford Cotton
Mills (the first built in England), Willersley Castle, Heights of Abraham and the High Tor, from "Mrs.
Smedley's Ladies Manual"
- Matlock: Cromford Hall (Willersley Castle), before
1791. Sir Richard Arkwright's mansion took some years to build, and this copper engraving seems to show an
unfinished structure.
- Willersley Castle: Engraving from 'The Beauties of England
and Wales', 1802.
- Images - Twentieth and Twenty First Century - Matlock
- Tourist Booklet of Matlock, Matlock Bath and District, about 1900.
Small booklet of twelve views. The photos were probably taken between 1892 and 1900
- "The AutoChrome Album of Matlock & District" (this
page is new, but the album has been elsewhere on the site since 2002.) Published in the first decade
of the twentieth century. Twelve views, including Crown Square before the tram shelter, and two pages
of adverts. Four additional images from a later edition ››››
- Matlock: Allen
Hill Farm. Allen Hill, the home of one branch of the
ancient Derbyshire family of Woolley, was demolished
in 1934. Three b&w photos
- Matlock:
Hodgkinson's Matlock & Historic Almanack,
1945, (War Edition), 65th year. Includes several pages
of local officials, etc.
- Matlock Bank and
Bridge, 1900-02. Two images, one from a Ward Lock
Guide.
- Matlock Bridge and
Bank, 1903-04. Coloured postcard, called Matlock Bridge
but of both Matlock Bridge and Matlock Bank.
- Matlock Bank, Summer
1904. A trichromatic postcard of the Bank from Masson
Hillside.
- Matlock Bank, Summer
1904 (2). Part of the County Bridge was closed and
difficulties for drays with heavy loads.
- Matlock Bank, about
1906 - a view from Masson.
- Matlock Bank, 1911
- 1914. Matlock was beginning to experience problems
with motor vehicles on both Bank Road and in Crown
Square, with a number of accidents reported in the
local press. Plus information about the early development
of Edge Road.
- Matlock: Crown Square & the Bank, 1919-27. Taken
before the tram was closed in 1927 but after the shops
at Park Head had finally been demolished in 1926.
- Matlock: Crown Square & the
Bank After the Tram, 1928-39. A dangerous lorry, parking
on the Hall Leys, traffic in Crown Square and Bank
Road straightened.
- Matlock
Bank from the Derwent, 1903, from an oil painting by
Henry Hadfield Cubley.
- Matlock
- looking towards Hackney, early 20th century.
- Matlock Bank from High Tor, 1920s. There was still
not a great deal of development in the area around Woolley
Road and Imperial Road in the early 1920s.
- Matlock Bank
from Masson, with Masson Farm. Taken from the top of
the Victoria Tower on the Heights of Abraham.
- Matlock from
the Heights of Abraham, probably taken in the 1940s.
- Matlock: Bank
Road (1), 1907. Bank Road seen from Crown Square. Apart
from the tramcar the only other vehicles are horse
drawn.
- Matlock: Bank
Road (2) from Crown Square, about 1910. An unusual
view of the world's steepest tramway, looking straight
up Bank Road
- Matlock: Bank
Road (3), 1923-27. Elevated view of Bank Road, taken
from Park Head, taken in the last years of the tramway.
- Matlock: Bank
Road (4). Views looking down Bank Road, taken from
one of the upper rooms in Central Buildings on Smedley
Street, where the photographer Charles Colledge lived
- Matlock: Bank
Road (5). Two more pictures of Matlock, looking down
the hill from the top of Bank Road and towards High
Tor and Masson, taken by the Smedley Street photographer
Charles Colledge
- Matlock: Bank
Road (7), 1901-1905. Bank Road, with a view of Masson.
Includes Yew Tree House
- Matlock: Bank
Road (8), with Masson Hill, early 1930s. The shops
and houses on Bank Road, just above the Orchard Road
turning where Bank Road is at its widest.
- Matlock:
Bottom of Bank Road and The Lido. An Art Deco swimming
pool built in the late 1930s. Six images and two advertisements.
- Matlock:
Bank House & Church View Hydro, New Street.
Henry Ward built Bank House before 1871, took over the
adjacent Church View in 1874 and remained there until
not long before the first world war. The property was
bought by Ernest Henry Bailey.
- Matlock: The
Old Bridge, postcard of a painting by Henry Hadfield
Cubley. Events leading up to the widening of Matlock's
mediaeval stone bridge in 1903-4
- Matlock: The Bridge
(1). Two views of Matlock Bridge, not long after it
was widened. What happened during the extension project
- Matlock: The Bridge
(2), two Edwardian Postcards. Matlock's mediaeval
stone bridge over the River Derwent, with both coloured
and sepia versions.
- Matlock: The Bridge
(3). The traffic was changing in the first decade of
the twentieth century. There were cars, some driven
too fast, as well as horses and carts or wagons and
the bridge was sometimes congested.
- Matlock: The Bridge
(4), and the Broad Walk. Old trees were felled in 1904
and the broad walk was replanted. Two years earlier
Charles Parlato entertained the crowds from a stage
on the Hall Leys.
- Matlock: The Bridge
(5), late 1940s. A post war picture of the County Bridge
and the stories of a few incidents connected with it.
- Matlock
Bridge: Bank House, formerly Riversdale House, about
1902. Classical Georgian building in the centre of
the town that has been a private residence, a school
for young ladies, a temperance hotel and finally became
a bank. It was even the Head Office of Derbyshire Stone
for a time.
- Matlock:
The Derwent, about 1910, & the Sewerage Scheme.
Two views from the bridge, with information about the
implementation of the Matlock Sewerage Scheme.
- Matlock:
Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1900-1949 (1), Surnames
A - D. Part of a series of pages showing letterheads
found on stationery used by Matlock and Matlock Bath
businesses from 1900 to the shortly after the Second
World War
- Matlock:
Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1900-1949 (2), Surnames
E - H
- Matlock:
Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1900-1949 (3), Surnames
I - M
- Matlock:
Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1900-1949 (4), Surnames
N - R
- Matlock:
Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1900-1949 (5), Surnames
S - T
- Matlock:
Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1900-1949 (6), Surnames
U - W
- Matlock: Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1950-1966
(7)
- Matlock: Belle
Vue Hydro, about 1903. Established as a Hydro in 1860,
Belle Vue used John Smedley's mild water cure treatments.
- Matlock:
General Views, Early 20th Century. The railway crossing
the river, Matlock Bank and Steep Turnpike. The Council
on ashbins. Similar viewpoint
to the card immediately below. Two images.
- Matlock Bridge
and Bank, 1907. An unusual view of Matlock Bank and
Bridge, photographed from just past the Holt Quarry.
Plus Steep Turnpike and Mr. Nuttall's field. Two
images
- Matlock:
General Views of Matlock Bank and Bridge, 1911-14
- Two postcards of Matlock Bank and the
Hall Leys, with information
about the older properties on Derwent Avenue.
- Matlock Bank,
the Hall Leys and Dale Road, 1912-14. Two cards, taken
from slightly different places.
- Matlock at the Beginning
of the Twentieth Century Basquil the tailors, the
Crown Hotel and Hall and Co.
- Matlock: Marchant Brooks Sale Rooms, Causeway
Lane, 1946. The 1946 and 1951 sales of Lea Hurst and the earlier twentieth century sales of the estate..
- Matlock:
The Cinema House, 1922 - photographed shortly after
it was built.
- Matlock:
Poplar Cottage & Jeffs' Poplar Hydro (Chatsworth Hydro),
1857-1912. Poplar Cottage was opened by Ralph Davis
in 1857 and was later run by other members of the family.
It changed hands in 1900 and became Jeffs' Poplar Hydro.
Two images and two advertisements.
- Matlock:
Poplar Hydro, later Chatsworth Hydro, 1900-05. These
unusual postcards of the recreational activities available
to the guests of Poplar Hydro provide a fascinating
glimpse into hydro life before the Great War.
- Matlock:
Chatsworth Hydro, 1912-46. A hydro, a clothing company's
UK headquarters and a teacher training college. Jeffs
Poplar Hydro underwent a change of name before the
first war and the newly named hydro was often advertised
as being close to the golf links. It had a number of
owners between the war, was bought by C & A and
eventually sold in 1946 to become part of the Teacher
Training College. Four images and an advertisement.
- Matlock:
Chatsworth Hydro "Tariff Souvenir" Brochure,
about 1931-2. Early 1930s 16 page souvenir published
by the hydro's new owners.
- Chesterfield House Hydro, Matlock. Three postcards
of Ralph Davis's Matlock Bank Hydro. He was the first
person to open an hydropathic establishment on the
Bank.
- Matlock:
Chesterfield House Hydro Brochure, 1906-17. Lovely
early twentieth century illustrated brochure, originally
produced for Arthur Hitching, with changes by the
new owner in 1917.
- Matlock: Church Organ Recitals given by Harry Douglas, 1906-36.
Many were at the Congregational Church
- Matlock: Primitive Methodist Church, Membership Cards, given
to the Lill sisters in the first decade of the twentieth century
- Matlock: Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1879 - plan. Plan,
consisting of 5 drawings, for the Wesleyan Methodist
Church that was to be built on the Bank
- Matlock: Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1906 - the new
spire. Design for the new porch and tower of the Wesleyan
Methodist Church at Matlock Bridge
- Matlock: Cavendish Road, Claremont and Mr. Rowland (who built Rockside).
- Matlock:
Derbyshire Stone's Christmas Card, 1955. Several images
of the company's Christmas greetings card
- Matlock: Memorial Cards for Internments at St. Giles'
and elsewhere (1), Surnames A-B. Small collection of
cards printed between 1889 and 1925, surnames Alsop,
Bannister and Byard
- Matlock: Memorial Cards for Internments at St. Giles'
and elsewhere (2), Surnames C. Small collection of cards
printed between 1889 and 1925, surname Cooper
- Matlock: Memorial Cards for Internments at St. Giles'
and elsewhere (3), Surnames D-R. Small collection of
cards printed between 1889 and 1925, surnames Davis,
Derbyshire, Fox, Hursthouse, Ridley
- Matlock:
Memorial Cards for Internments at St. Giles' and elsewhere
(4), Surnames S-W. Small collection of cards printed
between 1889 and 1925, surnames Smith, Wildgoose, Wood
and Woodhouse
- Matlock District
Council Coronation Medal, 1937 ››››
- Matlock:
The Council's Steam Roller, early 1900s. In 1896 Matlock
Urban District Council ordered a 12 ton steam road
roller.
- Matlock: 1 Crown Buildings, Crown Square, early 20th
century. Peter Holmes' advertisement, which provides
a good view of both side of the building on the corner
of Crown Square.
- Matlock:
Crown Square, 1901. A very rare photograph, and possibly
a unique image, of Crown Square showing the shops at
the top of what is now the Park Head.
- Matlock: H. G. Hartley's shop in Crown Square, about
1904. Hartley's sold almost everything. Mr. Hartley was
the Chairman of the Council.
- Matlock:
Crown Square from Causeway Lane, about 1910. Crown
Square in the days of horse drawn vehicles.
- Matlock:
Crown Square from the County Bridge, 1928-30. Crown Square
after the tramway had gone. With Orme's advertisement
- Matlock:
Crown Square, 1937-39. The roundabout in the middle
of the square had been enlarged
- Matlock:
Crown Square, 1945-52. Crown Square in the late 1940s
and early 1950s had changed only slightly from the
Crown Square of the late 1930s
- Matlock: Crown Square, looking south west, 1945-52
- Matlock:
Burgons, Crown Square, about 1952. View of Crown Square
looking toward the Park and Riber
- Matlock:
Joseph Allen and Sons Garage, Crown Square. The Allens
owned the large garage, with shops and living quarters,
from 1916 and their cab, taxi and funeral business
operated from there
- Matlock:
Furniss's Garage, Crown Square. William Furniss was
the first to open a garage in Crown Square. The Furniss
family ran a coach business, with charabancs and buses,
in both Matlock and Matlock Bath.
- Matlock:
Hand's Garage, Crown Square. Henry Hand and his son
William ran what began as a successful livery stables
and later included a garage and bus service connecting
Matlock and Cromford.
- Matlock: Dale
Road, Boat House Hotel and River, early 1900s. The
first advertisement for the Boat House Hotel was printed
in 1780. It was later advertised with land for quarrying
or lime burning
- Matlock:
Dale Road, Boat House Hotel and River, about 1908.
The Boat House Hotel has been at the north entrance to
Matlock Dale for over two centuries. With two advertisement
and list alphabetical of known licensees, 1827 - 1950s
- Matlock:
Dale Road, Boat House Hotel & Quarry. Early twentieth
century photo, with information about and an additional
photograph of the footbridge which spans the river
- Matlock:
River Derwent near the Boat House Hotel, about 1904-5.
The Boat House Hotel has its own private waters for
fishermen
- Matlock:
Dale Road, Boat House Hotel - Stables and Scout Rooms
- Stables and Scout Rooms and Scout Rooms. The former
meeting place of the 4th Matlock Scout Troop
- Matlock: Dale
Road, Railway Bridge, South Side, 1906. With the stories
of two nineteenth century tragedies
- Matlock: Dale Road, Railway Bridge, North Side, before 1914. Built
in the 1840s for what was then the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock & Ambergate railway
- Matlock: The
Quarries, Dale Road
- Matlock: Harvey
Dale Mountain Limestone Quarry, Dale Road. Rare photograph
of Greatorex and Son's quarry on Dale Road, with advertisement
for both the quarry and the Great Masson Cavern
- Matlock: The
Dale, The Heights, High Tor & the
Quarry, 1920s. View of the entrance to the dale. 2 images,
one an enlargement of the main image
- Matlock: Dale Road at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. Lovely
early Edwardian cards, shows a view of Dale Road still easily recognizable today. Also discusses Mr. Barnwell's
shop.
- Matlock: Dale Road & the Queen's Head Hotel. This stretch of
Dale Road was mostly developed between 1880 and 1900. A short history of the hotel up to the first world war.
- Matlock: Dale
Road & Marsdens, 1928 & Early 1950s. From Marsdens,
the first shop in Matlock to be lit by electricity, to
the Old English
- Matlock: J. Wilby of Dale Road, early 1900s. James Wilby had a tailoring business
on the premises.
- Matlock: Dale Road & Moore's Bakery. Peter and Eliza Moore arrived on
Wellington Street about 1846. Their son set up his own bakery and his descendants continued the family firm until 1973.
Includes the cafe they ran in Whitworth Park
- Matlock: Dale Road & The Old English Hotel. Two postcards,
including the photo with the very long ladder, plus a modern photograph. Find out who kept the hotel at
the beginning of the twentieth century and who the shopkeepers were.
- Matlock: Dale Crescent, about 1908. A rare late Edwardian
image, when some Dale Road addresses were known as Dale Crescent
- Matlock: Dale Road, 1909-19. By 1919 Matlock was emerging from
the effects of the First World War. Amongst the most important events in the town in 1919 were the Peace
Celebrations. Plus, in 1917, the formation of a society to support disabled and returning soldiers.
- Matlock: Dale Road, about 1904. The row of shops had almost all been built about
20 years before on land previously called Great Ship Loads. The premises included Statham's Studio, Gessey's Confectionery,
Holmes furniture store, Dyers and Basquil's.
- Matlock: Dale Road, 1909. Evans the jewellers, the Old English
etc.
- Matlock: Dale Road, 1949. The view from the Picture
Palace
- Matlock: Holt Lane and Dale Road, about 1900. Thomas Green,
one of Matlock's longest living residents, lived at the Rock Inn
- Matlock: Market Hall, Dale Road. Includes information about
the opening ››››
- Matlock: Masson Hill from Chesterfield Road. Probably taken
shortly after WW1.
- Matlock: Masson from Dean Hill, 1921 - 1930. With views of Matlock
Green, Knowleston Place, Stoney Way, Matlock Town and Starkholmes.
- Matlock:
General View from Jackson Tor, 1904-10, & Jackson House.
The main picture shows Jackson House Hydro, Tor House
Hydro, All Saints and The Terrace on Woolley Road which
had connections to the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. With
an advert for Jackson House and one for the Abbey Hotel
(formerly Jackson House).
- Matlock:
Seen from the Look-out, Jackson Tor. Possibly taken
before the first world war.
- Matlock:
Looking south from Jackson Tor, 1928. View of central
Matlock, including the station goods yard, Poyser's
mill and his Curtis Cultivator.
- Matlock from
Matlock Bank, 1904-06. 1904-06 postcard includes the
new Co-op buildings and Smedleys, with information
about the Co-operative Society. 1964 photo from the
same viewpoint.
- Matlock:
Castle View, Looking Towards Riber & Starkholmes.
View of Riber Castle, Starkholmes and High Tor from Cavendish
Road. It also shows one of hydro's bridges across Smedley
Street.
- Matlock: Views
from the Memorial & Memorial Hill, and information
about the Cinema House. Two images.
- Matlock from
Riber, 1914. Matlock Bank was still relatively undeveloped.
- Matlock from Riber, late 1920s. A little about the revived cattle
market and special fairs.
- Matlock Green and Riber Castle, 1911. A party to celebrate
the Coronation of George V on John Else's field. We can also see Malthouse Row and the former Corn Mill.
- Matlock: Knowleston Gardens, Matlock Green, 1907. The ornamental
gardens of Knowleston Place were bought by Matlock UDC from the estate of Henry Knowles.
- Florence Nightingale and Lea Hurst, Near Matlock. As one of the lovely spots
of the county of Derby, Lea Hurst stands naturally high, but as the home of Florence Nightingale, it possesses an
historical interest that will always remain.
- Matlock: Lea Mills, Lead Smelting Works & Coumbs Wood. Smedley's Mill
at Lea and a Smelting Works, both on the parish boundary.
- John Smedley Ltd., Lea Mills, Matlock. Advertisement for Lea Mills reproduced
from Matlock and District Industrial Exhibition catalogue.
- View of Lea and Bow Wood across the Derwent Valley. Includes the Cromford Canal,
the High Peak Junction, Leawood Pumphouse, Wigwell Aqueduct, Cromford Goods Wharf and the hat manufactory at Lea
- Matlock: Lilybank Hydro (Dalefield), and the Barton family. Three images.
- Matlock: Mr. Barton's Dalefield Hydro (Lilybank), 1904.
Two images
- Matlock: Lilybank Hydro, Sun Lounge, 1930s.
- Matlock: Lilybank Hydro, 1930s. Painting published as a postcard and
an advertisement.
- Matlock: Lilybank Hydro, Ballroom. Numerous clubs and societies
who hired Lilybank's ballroom for their annual dinner dances and balls in the 1950s. Three images.
- Matlock: Lilybank Hydro, 1950s. Multi view postcard and an advertisement.
- Matlock: Lilybank Hydro - Menus, 1958 - 60. Dinner menu and two menu
covers.
- Matlock: The Lime Tree, Lime Tree Hill, 1920s. A large lime tree
stood on Matlock Bank for several centuries.
- Matlock: Lumsdale, about 1900. Matlock's oldest industrial area, where
mills were powered by water from the Bentley Brook. Includes photos of the brook today.
- Matlock Bank. Path to Lumsdale, early 20th century. Edwardian postcard
and recent photos of the path, which has replacement steps.
- Matlock: Lumsdale Ponds. Tansley Mill, later Scholes Mill, was built
for Samuel Unwin at the end of the seventeenth century. Also the Middle Pond. The ponds were a haven for trout
fishermen.
- Matlock: Lynholmes Road and the early days of the Hurst Farm Estate.
Two photos, the second showing part of the Drill Hall.
- Matlock House Hydro, Early Twentieth Century. Promotional card, 1903
advert and a multi-view, with more about the hydro
- Matlock: Multiviews from the late Nineteenth Century to 1914. Six postcards,
showing the town in the very early years of the picture postcard.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath : Multiviews from the late Nineteenth Century
to 1914. A coloured and sepia multiview of the same card, each with 11 images, plus a 4 image postcard.
- Matlock: Decorative Multiviews, 1906 and 1907. Two very unusual postcards
with messages in large print and only small images of the scenery.
- Matlock: Multiviews from the Inter War Years. One postcard, showing changes
and improvements to the town.
- Matlock: Multiviews from 1945 onwards. Three post World War Two multiview
images.
- Matlock: Derby & Derbyshire Convalescent Home (NALGO House), where
Rossetti stayed on Lime Tree Lane (later Road) in 1857, when it was owned by Mr. Cartledge. It later became a
school before becoming a Convalescent Home.
- [Oker] Dale View Holiday Centre, Matlock - a large house on
Sitch Lane
- Old Matlock, postcard of a painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley
- Matlock:
Oldham House Hydro, Prospect Place & Woodlands
School (Miss White's), with a little about the Davis
family. With 1863 advertisement for 1 Prospect Terrace.
- Matlock: Oldham
House & Prospect Place Hydro, 1903 Advertisement
from Abel Heywood's Guide.
- Matlock: Oldham
House Hydro - with a number of people in the photograph.
- Matlock: Oldham
House Hydro, Wellington Street, 1920s. Two images.
Lubin George Wildgoose, a grandson of Thomas Davis,
was running the hydro.
- Matlock: Oldham
House Hydro, Dining Room, 1908. The dining room had
been built in 1899.
- Matlock: Oldham
House Hydro, Lounge, 1920s-1930s. Central heating had
been installed.
- Matlock: Oldham
House Hydro, Tennis Court and Bowling Green.
- Matlock: Oldham House Hydro, Multi-view. Jackson and
Sons postcard dating from early twentieth century, with
five images of the hydro.
- Matlock & District
Amateur Operatic Society, Productions 1907-69. List
of productions 1907-1969 (with programme covers where
available), with information of how and when it began
- Matlock & District
Amateur Operatic Society, The Mikado, 1908: from an
original programme owned by Ann Andrews. The programme
cover, cast, society's officers and advertisers
- Matlock:
Hall Leys, about 1912.
- Matlock:
Hall Leys, 1914. Two postcards. The tennis courts
now had nets. Croquet was also being played.
- Matlock:
Hall Leys Park - The Broad Walk, about 1920. Old tram
cables were used in the fencing
- Matlock:
Hall Leys. Probably taken in the 1930s.
- Matlock:
Hall Leys, Boating Lake & Paddling Pool, late
1930s to 1950s. Two postcards and a photograph. Now
includes The Hall Leys Tennis Courts, 1948.
- Matlock:
Hall Leys, Boating Lake. Five postcards and two more
recent photos.
- Matlock:
Hall Leys Park in Winter, 1940s. The boating lake in
Hall Leys Park was used for ice skating, when conditions
allowed.
- Hawe
Lees, Matlock, showing Bandstand and New Pavilion.
Early 20th century crowd listening to a Scottish band.
- Matlock:
Park Band Stand, Hall Leys.
- Matlock:
The Bandstand, Hall Leys Pleasure Grounds, 1950s. Screens
were erected on Matlock's Bandstand.
- Matlock:
The Park and Tram Shelter. The shelter and its clock
were donated by Mr. Robert Wildgoose.
- Matlock:
The Park, 1952. The Hall Leys in 1952, with contemporary
description.
- Matlock:
Hall Lees Park, Boating on the Derwent, 1930s. Four
images.
- Matlock:
The Miniature Railway on the Hall Leys. The 1950s engine
and three photos of today's train.
- Matlock: Sparrow
Park, Smedley Street East, 1940s. Matlock Council did
not want to spoil the view.
- Matlock: Pig Tor,
1903 - 1905. Photographed shortly after the walkway
was opened.
- Matlock Bridge,
Pic Tor Walk 1909. There were two temperance hotels on
this stretch of the Derwent.
- Matlock: Pic Tor,
1920 - view of the attractive Pic Tor Walk.
- Matlock: Pic Tor and the River Derwent, early twentieth century. Two
images of the Pic Tor Rock and the River Derwent.
- Matlock: The Pic
Tor, from a painting by H H Cubley.
- Matlock:
Pic Tor and Riber Castle, with War Memorial, 1935.
Two cards from the inter war years.
- Matlock:
Pic Tor Promenade. Two early twentieth century postcards
of Matlock's Pic Tor promenade.
- Matlock:
Pic Tor and Riber Castle, 1928. Read about a brass
band concert.
- Matlock:
Pic Tor, the Cycle Track and Matlock Green. Postcard
of Pic Tor looking towards Matlock Green and Tansley.
Two sections of the card, showing the temperance hotels
on Dale Road and both the almshouses and Knowlston
Place, have been enlarged.
- Matlock:
Pic Tor, the Cycle Track and Matlock Green, 1909.
Charles Colledge's card is a slightly earlier picture
than the one above and shows more of the cycle track.
- Matlock: Rockside
Hydro. From the opening of Matlock's second largest
hydro to the outbreak of the first world war. ››››
- Matlock:
Rockside Hydro, 1903, An advertisement showing the original
building, shortly before it was redesigned. From the
Ward Lock Guide.
- Matlock: Rockside
Hydro, 1908, Just a couple of years after the twentieth
century refurbishment, much of which was in the Art
Nouveau style. ››››
- Matlock, Rockside.-View
from South. Rockside was still open for business
in the early part of the First World War. ››››
- Matlock:
Rockside Hydro, Interior. The lounge and ingle nook
fireplace.
- Matlock:
Rockside Hydro, One of the Tennis Courts. Tennis was
just one of the activities that visitors to Rockside
had been able to enjoy since 1880.
- Matlock: Rockside
Hydro, 1925-45. A high class hydropathic establishment,
advertised as being 800 feet above sea level. It all
ended at the outbreak of the second world war. Now
with three images of the hydro.
- Matlock:
Rockside - Teacher Training College, 1945-88. After
the War Rockside was bought by Derbyshire County Council
and was converted into a teacher training college.
- Matlock:
Training College Brochure (Rockside & Chatsworth),
about 1946-47. A booklet that would have been sent to
prospective students not long after the college opened.
- Matlock:
Rockside, the Former Hydro and its ups and downs.
Relatively recent photographs of Rockside in a
very sorry state of repair and some pictures of the
redevelopment.
››››
- Matlock:
Ernest Bailey Secondary School Prospectus, 1930s. A
booklet that would have been given to prospective pupils
or their parents.
- Matlock
Modern School: Monthly Letter, March, 1935. Newsletter
for the parents, pupils and staff of a progressive
school in the inter war years.
- Matlock
Modern School Prospectus, 1932. Photographs and content
from this progressive school's brochure for prospective
parents
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydro, early 1900s. From insignificance to one of the
largest hydros in the kingdom.
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydro, 1906-7. Two postcards. Includes information
about some of the staff of the day.
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydro, 1908-14. A garage had been built the previous
year. The hydro continued to expand until WW1.
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydro during the First World War. Smedley's functioned
normally in the War and the hydro's permanent residents were largely undisturbed. Includes a comment from a patient
who was there in the early stages of WW1 and two adverts from Hodgkinson's Guide.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Hydro Drawing Room, 1906. Edwardian picture
of the drawing room, dominated by two huge portraits
of Mr. and Mrs. Smedley.
- Smedley's
Hydropathic Establishment Matlock, Brochure, about
1925 (this page is new, but the brochure has been elsewhere
on the site since 2002). Smedley's Hydro brochure was
designed for the hydro's many visitors in the inter
war period. The thirty two pages of images and text
provided information on the tariffs, baths and treatments
at Matlock's premier hydro, etc. ››››
- Smedley's
Hydro & Grounds, Matlock, 1926, with
excerpts - from "Truth" and a list of baths
available.
- Smedley's
Hydro Grounds, Matlock, 1926 - from Truth. The hydro
had eight acres of park-like grounds in 1926.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Hydro, The Inter-War Years. Second to none in
Europe.
- Matlock: Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment,
Brochure, 1939. It had the misfortune to be published
just before the outbreak of war, when Smedley's was requisitioned.
- Matlock: Smedley's
- Great Britain's Greatest Hydro, 1950 (advertisement),
and C. F. White's bombshell.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Hydro & Grounds, 1952, & the Hydro's
Closure, a centenary multi-view card and the hydro's
last struggle. With the letter Henry Douglas wrote
informing clients about the closure.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Hydro Bath Book, about 1928. Patients were
given bath books to record their treatment.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Grand Dining Room. A pre 1914 war photo.
Includes the 1900 Banquet menu and a little about the
Banquets.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment - Smoking Room.
Whilst John Smedley disapproved of smoking, eighteen
years after his death the hydro's management installed
a smoke room.
- Matlock:
The Winter Garden, Smedley's Hydro. The Winter Garden,
with its fernery and ballroom, was magnificent when
it opened in 1900. Three images.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Memorial Hydropathic Hospital. Smedley's
Memorial Hydropathic Hospital on Bank Road was founded
by Mrs. Caroline Smedley in memory of her late husband.
The building had originally been South View Cottage,
a hydro first run by Ralph Davis.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Christmas Banquet Menu, 1925.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Christmas Banquet Menus, 1926-1927. The Christmas
menus for 1928 and 1929, including list of music played.
Also the Events programmes for the Christmas and New
Year Festivities.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Christmas Banquet Menus, 1928 and 1929. Menus
for 1928 and 1929, including list of music played.
Also the Events programmes for the Christmas and New
Year Festivities.
- Matlock: Smedley's Menus, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1934.
Four Christmas menus, the New Year Dinner Menu for 1930
and three programmes of the celebrations throughout the
Christmas period.
- Matlock:
Smedley's Menus, 1946, 1947, 1948 & 1949. Three
Christmas menus, and the New Year Dinner Menus for
1948 and 1949.
- Matlock: St. Giles
Church, about 1903. A few years after the church
had been enlarged for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
- Matlock: St. Giles
Parish Church, Matlock Bridge, before 1908, with a
short description by J. C. Cox. Now with a little about
the bells that were cast or recast in 1904.
- Matlock: St. Giles'
Church in the First Decade of the Twentieth Century.
Having been enlarged in the late 1890s, work on the
church continued in the early twentieth century
- Matlock: St. Giles
Church and Old Matlock, early 20th Century. Postcard
of the church and surrounding buildings.
- Matlock:
St. Giles' Church and Green, 1914. The tree outside
the churchyard is just a stump.
- Matlock: St. Giles
Parish Church, Lych Gate. Three images
- Matlock: St. Giles' Church Interior, about 1850-1969. The church interior,
showing the oak stalls, the organ case, and the pulpit - and some surprising art work on the walls surrounding
the chancel's east window. Three images.
- Matlock: Church, Memorial Gardens and Riber from the Hall Leys
- Matlock: Church from Hawe Leys, before 1904 - from an oil
painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley
- Building the Railway
Line to Matlock Station. The railway arrived in Matlock
in 1849, opening on 4th June and celebrated by lunch
at the Old Bath Hotel in Matlock Bath. Here is a short
account of the railway being built and information
about the inadequate facilities at the station in the
1880s and 1890s. ››››
- Matlock Railway
Station buildings, 2008 and before. This includes a
series of photographs of the early days of Peak Rail as
well as images of the 2008 footbridge. ››››
- Matlock Station stone Yard: Messrs Beck,
Boden & Drabble. Early 20th century photograph of the station yard, busy with
masons preparing and finishing stone ready for sending on to destinations
throughout the country.
- Matlock
Station: Smart's Quarry, 1928. Photograph of a raised
rail track, with waggons on it about to empty their
load into lorries waiting underneath
- Matlock:
Crowder Johnson's Handmade Hosiery Works. A family
run business on Wellington Street. Two images
- Matlock: The Wishing Stone. Matlock's Wishing Stone is
a massive rock. Four postcards, and a recent photograph
Riber
- Matlock: Riber Castle.
Built as a family home, it became a boys' school, then
a government food store and was later a zoo.
- Matlock:
Riber Castle & High Tor, Views from Masson.
Two views of Riber from different vantage points on the
Masson hillside. In addition to the Castle we can see
High Tor and the High Tor Recreation Ground as well as
Starkholmes.
- Matlock: The Elizabethan
Riber Hall, originally the home of the Wolley family,
with a little information about the families who lived
there in the 18th and 19th centuries. Two images, including
Henry Hadfield Cubley's painting of the Hall.
- Matlock: Riber Hall, 1926 - 1939. Two drawings of the Hall, and the owners in the first
half of the twentieth century. It was also a museum for a time. ››››
- Matlock:
Riber Hill and Riber Castle, a view of the farms and
dry stone walls below the castle. Now includes a little
on 18th century Riber.
- Matlock: Pathways to Riber Castle, passing Riber House Farm. The footpath
up the hillside goes right past the farm's gate. The home of the Wilsons and Farnsworths, famous in the
district for their family choir.
- Matlock: A Peep at Riber Castle
- Matlock: Riber Castle, A Classroom, a postcard produced by Rev.
Chippett
- Matlock: Riber, a Winter Scene, 1937. With the publisher's signature on the
back
Snitterton
- Matlock: Snitterton Hall, 1909. A stone built Elizabethan manor house and
its owners, from just before the Civil War.
Starkholmes
- Matlock: Starkholmes and Riber from a Path to High Tor. With a little about
Wards End and some of the people who lived there.
- Matlock: Starkholmes, Sheffield Works Societies' Convalescent
Home. During the First World War the Sheffield Works Societies' had a Convalescent Home in Starkholmes.
- Matlock: Starkholmes & the Coronation of King George
VI, 1937. Starkholmes decided to hold its own celebrations on Coronation Day.
Willersley
- Matlock: Willersley Castle.
Four images, two early 1900s, another early 1930s and
the fourth from about 1958. Includes description from
1862 and some information about Willersley after the
Arkwright family had left.
- Matlock: Willersley
Castle, early 1900s. In 1905 a large party was held
in the grounds.
Matlock
: Willersley Castle, the Lodge and Gardens of the Arkwrights.
Willersley Castle's gardens and its main Lodge, with
information about those who worked for the family.
Four images.
- Matlock:
Willersley Castle, 1927 - at the time of the sale.
The main entrance. The photograph is from the sale
catalogue.
- Matlock:
Willersley Castle Contents Sale, 1927 - Notice.
- Matlock:
Willersley Castle Contents Sale, 1927 - Bedroom 15.
- Matlock: Willersley Castle Contents Sale, 1927 - Drawing
Room. A number of good quality fireplaces were advertised
in the sale catalogue, including this one. With an image
of the room after the Castle was sold.
- Matlock:
Willersley Castle Estate Sale, 1927. Sale of the estate,
consisting of about 290 acres - last page of catalogue.
- Matlock: Willersley
Castle, 1928-1939. The post Arkwright alterations
were sympathetic to the character of the building.
Some Victorian and Georgian features remained as the
Castle transformed into a Holiday Centre.
- Matlock:
Willersley Castle and the Matlock Hills, from Cromford
Hill.
- Images - Twentieth Century and after - Matlock Bath
- Matlock Bath: Coat
of Arms. The village seems to have had at least five
designs for its coats of arms.
- Matlock Bath:
Bath Terrace Hotel.
Established in 1798, this was for a substantial part
of the 19th century run by the Walker family
- "Souvenir of Matlock Bath",
4th edition (this page is new, but the booklet has been elsewhere on the site since 2003).
Published by Boots Cash Chemists, possibly about 1908-1910.
It contains pictures of Matlock Bath and the surrounding area. ››››
- Matlock
Bath: The Burdett family outside 5 Clarence Villas.
Clarence Villas is next to Hope Terrace on Brunswood
Road
- Matlock
Bath: Youth Hostel, 1960 - the First Vicarage. Matlock
Bath's first Vicarage became a Country Club and then
a Youth Hostel. Before then it had been the home of
twelve vicars
- Matlock
Bath: Bus Services, 1912 - 1933. Several firms ran
the buses that either terminated at or passed through
Matlock Bath. Includes an early driver's license
- Matlock
Bath: Bus Services, 1912 - 1933, Tickets and Timetables
(Part 2). More about the services through Matlock Bath,
including tickets and timetables of Watts and Williams
Spa
- Matlock Bath:
The Bonsall Bus, 1930s. A North Western Leyland bus
on its way to Bonsall
- Matlock
Bath: Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1900-1955.
Part of a series of pages showing letterheads found on
stationery used by Matlock and Matlock Bath businesses
from 1900 to the shortly after the Second World War
- Matlock Bath:
Cat Tor, 1913
- Matlock
Bath: Royal Cumberland Cavern. One of the attractions
for visitors to Matlock Bath for around 200 years. With
1930s advertisement. Ten images.
- Matlock
Bath: New Bath & Cat Tor from the Cumberland
Cavern. The view of Hagg Wood and Cat Tor, taken from
outside the Cumberland Cavern in the 1930s.
- Matlock
Bath: Fluor Spar Cavern, Heights of Jacob. Three early
twentieth century cards of the cavern on the Heights
of Jacob, one of the exterior and grounds, the second
of the interior and the third is of 'Jacob's Cave'.
- Matlock Bath: The Great Masson Cavern. Doubt was cast
on the ownership of the Masson Cavern in the late 1890s.
- Matlock
Bath: Great Rutland Cavern, Heights of Abraham - the
Old Oak Tree and the Roman Staircase. Three postcards
and an engraving. The engraving, dating originally
from around 1850, was published in 1903.
- Matlock Bath:
Holy Trinity Church, 1905.
- Matlock Bath:
Holy Trinity Church, 1907. Two images of the church. One
was taken from the Clifton Road field whilst the second,
an enlargement, was taken from the Lovers' Walks, opposite
the Derwent Gardens.
- Holy Trinity
Church, Matlock Bath, 1940s. Taken during or shortly
after WW2, it shows the Parish Church and the Clifton
Cabin>.
- Matlock
Bath: Holy Trinity Church and the Heights of Abraham.
- Matlock
Bath: Holy Trinity Church and the Switchback Railway.
Two cards, one in an Art Nouveau frame, from the same
publisher.
- Matlock
Bath: Holy Trinity Church Interior,1907. Includes a 1907
postcard and an 1845 sketch by William Adam.
- Matlock
Bath: County & Station Hotel, Dale Road, 1900-1939.
Advertisement for the hotel.
- Matlock
Bath: Dale Road, Holme Road & the Prospect Tower.
Rare photograph of the bottom of Holme Road and a second
photo from the station bridge.
- Matlock Bath:
Dale Road, the County & Station and
Holmefield House. The Midland restaurant was on the ground
floor of Holmfield House.
- Matlock Bath:
Dale Road & The Heights of Abraham, about 1948 -
view of the start of Dale Road.
- Matlock
Bath: Approaching High Tor, 1930s.
- Matlock
Bath: Portland House, Clifton Road. A large Victorian
house built in 1880 by John Wildgoose.
- Matlock
Bath: Derby Road, Dyson & Clough's Garage.
- Matlock
Bath: Derby Road, Hartle's Bazaar. In the nineteenth
century Robert Hartle, a comb manufacturer, had a museum
here.
- Matlock
Bath: Derby Road, Woodland House.
One of several Matlock Bath properties that fell victim
to the bulldozer.
- Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens - The Switchback, (1) Rise & Fall.
The story of Matlock Bath's Switchback Railway, from
the beginning to its demise.
- Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens - The Switchback, (2) Adrenalin
Rush. Two wonderful photos by Percy Rowbottom, one
of the cars, an advert and a view of the north end
of the gardens.
- Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens - from Lovers Walks, before 1905.
The River Derwent, the Derwent Gardens and the Switchback
from Lovers Walks, showing the southern end of the
switchback,
- Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens - The Café (1). Mr. and
Mrs. Buxton in the Derwent Gardens, near the Café.
- Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens - The Café (2). Mr. Bill
Boden ran the Café for a long time.
- Matlock Bath: Derwent Gardens, before 1909. The gardens
not long after the grounds were laid out, turning Orchard
Holme into somewhere visitors could either sit on the
seats provided or just walk around the paths near the
river.
- Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens from the River Derwent. Three
images from the first decade of the twentieth century
and a business card from the late 1930s.
- Matlock
Bath: Derwent Gardens - Miniature Railway, early 1950s.
After the Second World War the Derwent Gardens were
re-planned and re-opened.
- Matlock Bath:
The Ferry - the Walker family ran Matlock Bath's Ferry
and Lovers' Walk for most of the nineteenth century.
- Matlock
Bath: The Ferry and the River Derwent, 1905 -
a spring picture of the river, the ferry and the pleasure
boats.
- Matlock
Bath: The Derwent - and the Ferry, 1904 - from an oil
painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley.
- 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
- Matlock
Bath: Lover's Walk and the Ferry House, 1903 -
from the Ward Lock Guide, 1903.
- Matlock
Bath: The Ferry House - from an oil painting by Henry
Hadfield Cubley.
- Matlock Bath:
The Fish Pond (1) - Three images from before WW1, including
a photograph from a Ward Lock Guide.
- Matlock
Bath: The Fish Pond (2) - Probably dates from shortly
after WW1.
- Matlock
Bath: Fish Pond (3). Pretty view of the Fish Pond.
- Matlock Bath:
The Fish Pond, late 1920s. Two images.
- 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.
- Matlock
Bath: The Fish Pond, about 1940. An ice cream van occupies
the spot where Boden's Restaurant had been. The card's
sender mentions rationing.
- Matlock
Bath: The Fish Pond & Pavilion, with an additional
piece of Matlock Bath history.
- Matlock
Bath: Fish Pond Hotel, 1900. Unique photograph of an
assortment of cabs and waggonettes lined up outside
the Fish Pond Hotel.
- Matlock
Bath: Fish Pond Hotel, about 1910. A group of day trippers
("excursionists") on an outing with Joseph
Tomlinson & Sons
Ltd are enjoying the sunshine outside the Fish Pond
Hotel.
- Matlock
Bath: Fish Pond Hotel, 1930s. Rare postcard of the
hotel, plus an advertisement.
- Matlock
Bath: Fish Pond Stables, 1907, with 1903 Advert.
- Matlock
Bath: Fish Pond Stables, Providence Mine & the
Mud Heap.
- Matlock Bath
from Cat Tor. A coloured version of a one of the earliest
cards on this website. Now includes an enlargement
of some of the properties on Derby Road - Woodland
Terrace and House etc.
- Matlock
Bath from Cat Tor (2). Sepia card probably dates
from about from about 1910 or so and shows the Road-House
that was connected to the New Bath
- Matlock
Bath: General Views from Cat Tor, 1906-1913. Three
more images of the view of the village from Cat Tor,
two definitely taken before the First World War and
the third one, from a Ward Lock Guide, was possibly
taken then.
- Matlock Bath:
General View from The Heights of Abraham, about 1914.
- Matlock Bath:
From the Heights of Abraham, The Changing Landscape.
South Parade, with views of both Pavilions and the
Royal Hotel in the 1920s. Two images.
- Matlock Bath: From the Heights of Abraham, the Changed
Landscape. Post World War Two, showing that only part
of the former Royal Hotel remained and evidence of the
Army's occupation in the village during that war. Two
images.
- Matlock Bath:
From the Heights of Abraham to Crich Stand & Beyond.
Wonderful view from high up on Masson looking towards
Crich and southwards.
- Matlock
Bath from the Heights of Jacob, 1908.
- Matlock Bath from the Heights of Jacob, 1908-1914. Three images,
plus enlargement of one, taken from high up on the Heights of Jacob.
- Matlock Bath from the Heights of Jacob, 1920s. Possibly
the earliest picture of the extension to Temple Walk, showing the section called New Road at its junction with
Waterloo Road.
- Matlock Bath: View from Starkholmes, 1908. A wonderful panoramic
view of Matlock Bath and Masson hillside, with details of some of the Terraces.
- Matlock Bath: from the Temple Hotel.
- Matlock Bath: Views from Waterloo Road, 1920s - 1940s.
- Matlock Bath : Living at the Heights of Abraham, 1954-64. Peter
Aspey's personal account of a childhood spent at the
Heights of Abraham. With three pictures
- Matlock
Bath: The Heights of Abraham, from the Derwent, 1904.
A painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley.
- Matlock
Bath: Heights of Abraham, Upper Tower. Two postcards,
one showing it as Tea Room.
- The Victoria
Prospect Tower, Matlock Bath. The tower, built in 1844,
is on the Heights of Abraham. Two cards from the early
twentieth century.
- Matlock
Bath: Victoria Tower, Heights of Abraham, 1907 -25.
Four images including two lovely coloured views of
the Tower, with one showing
the hills in the distance.
- Matlock
Bath: Heights of Abraham, Wooded Slopes. Close up of
part of Waterloo Road and the Lower Tower.
- Matlock Bath: Holme Road area, 1910-1920. Panorama of the properties
on the hillside above North Parade.
- Matlock Bath: Clarence Terrace, Holme Road, about 1900. Two images.
- Matlock Bath: The Clarence Hydropathic Establishment, Holme
Road. Clarence House Hydropathic Hotel, a newly erected and commodious building opened in 1871.
- Matlock Bath: Holme Road from High Tor. Early twentieth century
view - these days it can be seen from the Heights of Abraham Cable Car.
- Matlock Bath: Illuminations & Venetian Fête (now
Venetian Nights) in the 1950s. Describes the seven year involvement of my late father, with many photographs
of the hundreds of set pieces he produced. Includes an early history of the Venetian Fête.
- Matlock Bath: Venetian Fête (now Venetian Nights),
decorated boats. The history, and images from the 1930s to the present day.
- Matlock Bath: Jubilee Bridge - two postcards of the bridge built
for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
- Matlock Bath: Jubilee Bridge, 1910. A slightly unusual view of
the bridge, as it was mostly photographed as part of the river scene.
- Matlock Bath: Jubilee Bridge, early 1960s.
- Matlock Bath: From Lover's Walk, Jubilee Bridge, about 1900-05.
- Matlock Bath: Simpson's Letter Card - six local images, dating from the 1940s and 50s.
- Matlock Bath: Lovers' Walks. A brief history of the walks and how
they came to be owned by the Council.
- Matlock Bath: Lovers Walks, about 1901. The ferry crossing.
Includes Pilkington's 1789 description of this section of Lovers' Walks.
- Matlock Bath: Lover's Walk, Riverside Path. An early postcard
plus two photographs - one as a rollover - published in the Ward Lock Guide of 1932.
- Matlock Bath: Steps and Woodland Walk on Lovers' Walks. Autumnal postcard, with 1783 quotation
from Bray, and the alcove that has disappeared.
- Matlock Bath: Lovers' Walks and River Derwent, Edwardian card.
- Matlock Bath: Lovers' Walks, an Edwardian Couple. From a painting
by Warren Williams.
- Lovers' Walks, Matlock Bath, 1914. At the outbreak of war.
- Matlock Bath: Aviaries and Monkey Houses, Lovers' Walks.
They had been introduced in 1913. Matlock UDC bought two black bears for the menagerie in 1930, but they didn't last long.
- Matlock Bath: Lovers Walks, 1950s. Two images, one of which
looks across the river.
- Matlock Bath: Masson House & Masson Terrace. Traces the life
of Adam Wolley's late eighteenth century home. And Masson Terrace, also late eighteenth century, which disappeared
when the A6 was widened.
- Matlock Bath: Masson Mill from Harp Edge, about 1900. Masson
Mill before it was altered.
- Matlock Bath: Arkwrights of Masson Mill, Advertisement, 1946.
Aimed at school leavers.
- Matlock Bath: Multiviews from the late Nineteenth Century to 1914.
Four early multiview cards, including a court card, from two publishers.
- Matlock Bath: Multiviews from the Inter War Years. Two multiviews of Matlock
Bath from approximately 1918 to 1939.
- Matlock Bath: Multiview from the Inter War Years (2). With pictures
dating from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including the monkeys on Lovers' Walk.
- Matlock Bath: Multiviews from 1945 onwards. Five post World War Two
images of the village.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel - one of Matlock Bath's old hotels
and where people came for the medicinal properties of the water.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel (2). Three early twentieth century views
of the hotel from Cat Tor, with the huge lime or linden tree in the garden.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel (3). The Edwardian Hotel, then owned
by the New Bath Hotel Company Limited.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel (4) - includes names of various proprietors. And
a dog called Jack
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel (5) - Two images and an enlargement. It
is possible that both photos was taken to mark the opening of the New Bath Hotel's outdoor swimming pool.
Also discussed is why and when the Roadhouse Bar was built.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel (6) - view of the New Bath, and enlargements
showing the stone built houses on Clifton Road, the roadhouse and the stables.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel and Cat Tor, 1930s. The back of
the hotel, with the pool and tennis courts.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel Booklet, about 1900. The
front and back covers. One of the photographs from the booklet was taken by J W Hilder.
- Matlock Bath: New Bath Hotel - the Outdoor Swimming Pool. Three
postcards and a photograph of the hotel's swimming pool. They mostly date from when the pool was constructed in the 1930s.
- Matlock Bath:
North Parade from Across the River. Early undivided
back card of the Derwent Terrace section of the Parade.
- Matlock
Bath: The Parade, Edwardian view of the Parade and
the Promenade, 1902-05. With an advertisement for the
Peveril Temperance Hotel.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, early twentieth century (1) - late
1905. The Promenade railings were being replaced.
- Matlock
Bath: The Parade, before 1906. With another advertisement
for the Peveril Temperance Hotel.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade & Waterloo Road. Edwardian
postcard, dating from between 1901 and 1905, showing
properties on the Parade and the hillside above.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, 1908, a coloured postcard showing
Fountain Villas.
- Matlock
Bath: North Promenade, an Edwardian Post Card.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, Bank Holiday Crowds, 1906. A photograph
by Percy Rowbottom.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, early twentieth century (2). North
Parade (part of) in the first decade of the twentieth
century.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, about 1913.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, Albion Hotel Restaurant, postcard of
the restaurant's interior.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, 1920s. From the Albion Restaurant
to Mr. Slawson's chemist's shop, with a picture of
the Hardstaffs of Parade View and another of the AA
man on his motor-bike with side-car..
- Matlock
Bath: Sanger's Circus, 1900. Parade through the village
of a famous English Circus.
- Matlock
Bath: Photograph of North Parade. Probably taken just
after the First World War.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade in the 1920s. The George Hotel and
Boden's shop.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, 1920s. Showing Wyvill's grocery
and off-licence.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade, 1930s. Postcard of North Parade,
with advertisements for Evans' Parade Restaurant and
Dalton's Central Restaurant.
- Matlock
Bath: Photograph of the Prom Café, North Parade.
Taken during the Second World War.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade (Derwent Parade), 1950s.
- Matlock
Bath: North Parade about 1960.
- Matlock
Bath: The Royal Pavilion - the Palais Royal. Opened
in July, 1884, it had a central concert hall and assembly
rooms, two promenade annexes, a refreshment saloon,
and a reading room. Five images.
- Matlock Bath:
The Grand Pavilion (Kursaal), 1910-12. Four postcards
of the earliest years of the Grand Pavilion and how
it all came to be built
- Matlock Bath:
The Grand Pavilion (The Kursaal) from Temple Terrace, 1915
- Matlock Bath: Grand Pavilion, Obelisk & Spar Shop
- Matlock Bath: The Grand Pavilion, from Temple Walk, 1911-20
- Matlock Bath: The Grand Pavilion, 1920s. Two of the four cards include
the Fish Pond Hotel
- Matlock Bath: The Grand Pavilion Ballroom, before 1928. The
Pavilion ballroom, where dances were held on Saturday nights. Within these walls romance blossomed for many locals
- Matlock Bath:
The Grand Pavilion, 1930s. The 1930s began for the
Pavilion with a Great Exhibition and ended with the
War and the fitting of an air raid siren.
- Matlock
Bath: The Grand Pavilion, 1938, and a more recent
winter scene of the Pavilion and Fishpond.
- Matlock Bath: Children's Corner, Grand Pavilion, 1923.
This was sited on ground that had formerly belonged to
the Ferry House.
- Matlock
Bath: Industrial Exhibition, Grand Pavilion, 1946.
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
- Matlock
Bath: Musical Festival, 1961. A little about the former
Annual Musical Festival and programme covers for 1961
and 1954. The Grand Pavilion was one of the venues
- The Promenade,
Matlock Bath. Very early twentieth century. The promenade
was, together with Jubilee Bridge, part of a scheme
to commemorate the Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
in 1887.
- Matlock
Bath: The Promenade,1902
- Matlock Bath: The Promenade, about 1904-05. Shows the
layout of the pre 1906 Promenade
- Matlock Bath: The Promenade, before 1905
- Matlock
Bath: Promenade and Gardens, before 1904. Two late Victorian
or early Edwardian images
- Matlock
Bath: Promenade Gardens, with Gas Lamps, about 1902.
Two postcards of the Prom, showing the gas lamps. With
info about local lamp lighters
- Matlock Bath:
The Promenade, about 1905
- Matlock
Bath: Promenade Gardens, about 1915. The Promenade
had undergone some changes
- Matlock
Bath: River Derwent and Promenade, showing one of the
old thatched kiosks
- Matlock Bath:
The Promenade
- Matlock
Bath: Lovers' Walks and the Band Stand. Two images.
- Matlock
Bath: Promenade & Memorial, 1920s and 1930s - four images
- Matlock
Bath: River Derwent and Promenade, about 1904. Three
images of the river and promenade alongside North Parade
- Matlock
Bath: River Derwent, 1906. View of the Derwent favoured
by artists
- Matlock Bath: River Derwent, 1914
- Matlock
Bath: The Parade & the Derwent, 1920s-1930s. A
photograph from a Ward Lock Guide (1928) and a
second photo taken a couple of years later
- The
Derwent at Matlock Bath, 1950. The river at the southern
end of North Parade and the hillside above, a few years
before the riverside buildings were pulled down. Three
images and an advertisement for the Devonshire Hotel
- Matlock
Bath: View from River Derwent. A riverside scene that
disappeared almost fifty years ago
- Matlock
Bath: Boating on the River Derwent, 1914
- Matlock Bath: The river behind South Parade's shops
and businesses. Four postcards of the stretch of the
river between the old Devonshire Cafe and the Grand Pavilion
from the 1920s and 30s. Plus an enlargement of part of
one of them
- Matlock
Bath: Boats For Hire, 1950s. Rowing boats tied up at
the landing stage behind the Grand Pavilion. The man
in charge was Walter Bird - two photographs
- Matlock
Bath: River Derwent, Masson Weir. Permission was granted
to convey water to the paper mill on the banks of the
Derwent. The Masson weir was then constructed. Six images.
- Matlock
Bath: Masson Mill's Water Wheel, about 1930. Photographs
of the 1847 Wren and Bennet water wheel taken shortly
before it was replaced by turbines.
- Matlock
Bath: River Derwent from Scarthin Rock. Two views from
the south end of the River Derwent, showing Harp Edge
and Woodbank from Scarthin Rock..
- Matlock
Bath: Road Widening, 1967 - a series of five photographs
showing the work in progress
- Matlock Bath:
The Royal Hotel - Matlock Bath's top class hotel,
which replaced The Old Bath Hotel
- Matlock
Bath: Royal Hotel and the Church
- Matlock
Bath: The Royal Hotel and garden. The hotel had wonderful
gardens. Postcard and 1903 advertisement
- Matlock
Bath: The Royal Hotel, Pavilion and Holy Trinity Church.
A largish crowd assembled on a rough piece of ground watching
a play being performed on an open stage. Plus a helter
skelter lighthouse on the Fish Pond Stables site.
- Matlock Bath:
The Royal Hotel, Pavilion & Holy Trinity Church, 1903
- Matlock
Bath: The Royal Hotel, where the first Boy Scout Commissioners'
Conference was held during the First World War. Shortly
afterwards it became the Canadian Convalescent Officers'
Hospital.
- Matlock
Bath: Royal Hotel & Baths
- Matlock
Bath: Royal Hotel & Baths (2)
- Matlock Bath: Royal Hotel Brochure, about 1908. Several photographs
from a small brochure about "The Royal Hotel and Bathing Establishment"
- The Pavilion, Church and Royal Hotel, before 1905."Hold to light card",
and a rare view of below the main building of the Switchback
- Matlock Bath: The Royal Hotel - the Royal or Radium
Well. The first spring discovered in Matlock Bath in 1696 was found in the grounds of the Royal Hotel
- Matlock
Bath: The Great Petrifying Well, 1932. Two images
- Matlock
Bath: The Royal Museum Petrifying Well. The earliest
trade directory reference for the Smith family's Royal
Museum Petrifying Well was in 1864. With 1930s advertisement
for Smith's Royal Museum and Petrifying Well.
- Matlock
Bath: Mr. Buxton's Royal Museum & the Great Petrifying
Well
- Matlock
Bath: Mr. Buxton's Royal Museum, Interior. Two early
twentieth century photographs of the interior of a
spar shop
- Matlock
Bath: The Royal Museum (Smith's), South Parade. A family
business specialising in Blue John that passed down
through several generations
- Matlock
Bath: The Rutland Arms & Fairview Terrace. One
of two photographs, taken in the early twentieth century,
of the buildings opposite Masson Mill
- Matlock
Bath: The Rutland Arms & Masson Mill. This is the
second photographs, although the Mill is the main focus
here
- Matlock Bath: Southern end of the village, from the
river, early 20th century. The riverbank below the Masson
Mill weir but upriver from Willersley
- Matlock Bath: Winter Scenes, 1960-70. A series of four
photos, probably taken during the winter of 1962-3. It
was one of the coldest winters on record
- Matlock
Bath: Winter Scenes, 1947. Britain suffered one of
the worst and prolonged snowfalls on record. Six images.
- Matlock
Bath : Nos. 1 and 2 South Parade, 1906 - next door
to the Fish Pond Hotel - 2 images
- Matlock Bath: South
Parade - an Edwardian Coloured Postcard
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade, Bank Holiday Crowds, 1906.
A photograph by Percy Rowbottom
- Matlock
Bath: Photograph of (South) Museum Parade & The
Pitchings, 1910
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade and the Heights of Abraham, 1905.
Hand coloured postcard, taken shortly after the death
of Queen Victoria
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade, 1909, & Boden's Baker & Confectioner.
Three postcards. The view of South Parade from opposite
the Fish Pond to just past the Pitchings. Includes
the Heights of Abraham
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade, 1910. Edwardian postcard of South
Parade, taken by Percy Rowbottom, and council dismay
about the state of Matlock Baths roads. Includes
an advertisement for and more information about Boden's
restaurant.
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade, early twentieth century. Includes
the names of some of the shopkeeepers and an enlargement
of a section of the Parade. Queen Series card
- Matlock Bath: South Parade, the Summer of 1914. The
blowing up High Tor fiasco to the early days of war.
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade & Heights of Abraham, 1914-18.
Includes some soldiers, who were probably billeted in
the village.
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade & Green Lane, about 1900
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade & the Pitchings, a drawing
- Matlock
Bath: South Parade, 1920s. A photograph taken by a
local man, probably of a bank holiday crowd. The
second image is of a Spa Service bus or charabanc.
- Matlock
Bath: High Tor from Matlock Bath Station, 1912. The
station and the Gas works.
- Matlock
Bath Station and High Tor - Matlock Bath station was
built in the style of a Swiss chalet
- Matlock
Bath: Midland Express Passing Through the Station
- shows the Station Goods Yard
- Matlock
Bath: Station House and the Last Station Master
- Matlock Bath: Temple Hotel - The Temple Hotel was one of Matlock
Bath's oldest hotels.
- Matlock Bath: Temple Walk.
- Matlock Bath Today. Recent Photographs (1) - North Parade and two
of the bottom of Holme Road. Three images.
- Matlock Bath Today. Recent Photographs (2) - View from the Heights of
Abraham, plus Temple Walk and Orchard Road from Upperwood Road, including the former Prince of Wales
Inn. Five images.
- Matlock Bath
Today. Recent Photographs (3). 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. Eight images.
- Matlock Bath
Today (4). Recent Photographs. Two pictures of the
former Colour Works and one of the High Tor Tunnel,
plus a little about building the tunnel.
- Matlock Bath
Today (5). Recent Photographs. Two pictures taken
from the top of Cat Tor.
- Matlock Bath
Today (6). Recent Photographs. Six pictures of the
Bath in the snow, 2010.
- Matlock
Bath: Upper Wood.
- Matlock Bath: View from the Heights of Jacob - the top of Jacob's
Ladder or Steps. Two views (summer and winter) of the old steps, set in woodland, connecting South Parade with Bonsall
via Upperwood. Photos taked by Thomas Meredith Henshall.
- 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.
- Matlock Bath: The 1881 Water Fountain. The fountain
has been restored several times. Read about the link to the Scouting Movement
- Matlock Bath: Woodbank, later Cromford Court - built by John Edward
Lawton, a Cotton Manufacturer from Manchester ››››
- Matlock Bath: Woodbank, 1910. Coloured view of Woodbank and
Arkwright's Mason Mill taken from Harp Edge
- Matlock Bath: Woodbank (Cromford Court), 1912, exterior
- Matlock Bath: Woodbank, 1930s, when it became Cromford Court.
The Friendship Holiday Association was owned by Henry Charles White. Three images, one taken about 1932,
and the others probably in the 1940s and 1950s
- Matlock Bath: Woodbank (Cromford Court), 1912, interior
- Matlock Bath: Cromford Court, FHA brochures for 1936 & 1951.
Part of two brochures advertising Cromford Court as a holiday centre.
Scarthin
- Scarthin:
The Southern Entrance to the Dale, 1900-1910 - Scarthin
rock.
- Scarthin Nick and the
Greyhound Pond, about 1905. Such a large pond is a
wonderful asset for any community but during the nineteenth
century Scarthin's residents faced some public health
issues.
- Scarthin Nick : Staffordshire Row & Chapel
Hill, 1905 - ate eighteenth century terraced houses,
built by Sir Richard Arkwright. Chapel Hill was named
after the old Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.
Via Gellia
- Matlock Bath: Rider Point,
Via Gellia. Four pretty cards of Rider Point, Via Gellia,
two of which show the former toll house with people
outside it, members of the Bainbridge family. Also
includes a lovely water colour of the house.
- Via
Gellia, Derbyshire.
Five postcards of the beautiful ravine of the Via Gellia,
showing Bonsall Wood, Middleton Wood and Rider Point.
- Via Gellia, near
Matlock Bath, 1906.
- In Via Gellia, Matlock
Bath, 1903.
- In the Via Gellia,
about 1929.
- Via Gellia: Multiviews from the late Nineteenth Century
to 1914. A Jackson and Son postcard of the Via Gellia
from the early twentieth century.
- The Pig of
Lead Inn, Via Gellia, Matlock Bath, 1903. The Pig of
Lead, at one time called The Via Gellia Inn, "is
a hostelry that reminds us that we have reached Bonsall".
- Matlock Bath:
Pig of Lead and Via Gellia Road. The road close to
the Pig of lead was widened in the early years of the
twentieth century. The work was part of Via Gellia
Improvement Scheme.
- Via Gellia:
Tufa Cottage, near Matlock Bath, 1905.
- Images - Twentieth and Twenty First Century - Matlock Dale
- Matlock Dale: Entering
the Dale. Almost the first few the early travellers
would have had of High Tor. Early twentieth century
postcard
- Matlock
Bath: The Dale, 1907. Boys playing with a hoop in
a snowy Matlock Dale.
- Matlock Dale: Artists'
Corner from Pic Tor. In 1890 Mr Peters of Guilderoy
secured the land at Artists' Corner and prevented development
- Matlock Dale: Artists'
Corner. The houses in the shadow of High Tor, early
twentieth century.
- Matlock Dale: Artists'
Corner from High Tor, 1920s. Looking down into the
Dale from the top of High Tor.
- Matlock Dale: General
View of Artists' Corner from High Tor, 1950s.
- Matlock Dale: Looking
towards Matlock from High Tor, 1920s. Two 1920s images
and three modern photos of the Matlock and Matlock
Bath boundary where there are some blocked up entrances. ››››
- Matlock Dale: High
Tor and Abram's Heights, 1925.
- Matlock Bath: Photograph of Dale Road From High Tor. Early
twentieth century photograph, showing Brunswood Terrace and Derwent House.
- Matlock Bath: Mrs. Whittaker's Long Tor Cavern, Dale Road,
advert. Mrs. Mary Whittaker first opened the Long Tor Cavern to the public in 1892. It almost didn't get
off the ground as a business.
- Matlock Bath: Whittaker's Bottling Plant, Dale Road. From the
top of High Tor, looking down at the bottling plant in the Dale. The series of buildings where the Whittaker
family carried out their soft drinks business.
- Matlock Dale from Long Tor. Taken
in the 1890s and showing the properties on both sides of the river Derwent below High Tor.
- Tor Hill House, Dale Road, Matlock Bath, 1915. Built by Thomas Robinson in
1830 and later the home of barytes manufacturer F. W. Stevens, who developed a small quarry on its land. Eventually bought by
Eliza Pearson, who changed its name, and remained with the Pearson family years. The quarry was only used for a short time, but
in 1966 a landslip and rock fall caused irreparable damage to houses built in it.
- Matlock Dale: Heath Bank, around 1900. Heath Bank is one of a pair of mid-Victorian
detached red brick villas which face High Tor.
- Matlock Bath:
High Tor - beautiful photograph and a quote from Rhodes
- Matlock Dale:
Views of High Tor, by Local Photographers. Three pictures
taken by locals (Latham, Potter and Henshall), with
a 1783 description of High Tor by Bray
- Matlock
Bath: High Tor and Artists' Corner (1)
- Matlock
Bath: High Tor and Artists' Corner (2)
- Matlock
Dale: High Tor & Artists' Corner (3). The
River Derwent has cut a deep and comparatively narrow
gorge through the carboniferous limestone.
- Matlock
Dale: High Tor & Artists' Corner (4) Postcard from
the 1890s of Tor Cottage and other buildings at Artists' Corner
- Matlock
Dale: High Tor & Artists' Corner (5). High Tor in 1909
- Matlock
Dale: High Tor & Artists' Corner (6). The
Dale had changed by the 1920s and a quarry had appeared
- Matlock Bath: High Tor and the Colour Works. Describes how
and why a Colour Works became established below High Tor in Matlock Dale
- Matlock Bath: High Tor and the Footbridge Over the River Derwent.
Over the years there have been a number of bridges below High Tor in Matlock Dale.
- Matlock Bath: The High Tor 1887. Henry Hadfield Cubley painting
- Matlock
Bath: High Tor, the Rock Face (1)
- Matlock
Bath: High Tor, the Rock Face (2). The Giddy
Path
- Matlock
Dale: High Tor, the Rock Face & the View Beyond.
The Cliff Path, some accidents on the Tor, and the
quarries below. Two images.
- Matlock
Bath: High Tor, Switzerland View. Three cards and a
detail of one of them that shows the houses in the
valley below High Tor and dates from 1892.
- Matlock
Dale: High Tor Grounds Entrance, about 1903. Opening
ceremony of the suspension bridge over the River Derwent
that connected the High Tor Grounds with the main road.
- Matlock
Dale: High Tor Guest House & Suspension Bridge.
- Matlock Dale: The High Tor Grounds, from Masson. The
grounds on the summit of High Tor were originally leased
from the Arkwrights, and later from Matlock Town Council,
until the lease expired.
- Matlock Dale: High Tor Grounds, Fern Cave. Thomas Carding's
Fern Cave, High up on High Tor, was first opened for
visitors in the mid 1860s.
- Matlock
Dale: High Tor & the Suspension Bridge
over the Derwent. About 1904, with a description from
Abel Heywood's Guide. Two images, one before the bridge
and one after.
- Matlock Dale: High Tor Guest House, 1945-50, with a brief history
- Matlock Dale: High Tor Guest House, 1936-52. Two postcards, taken
on the same day, and a 1930s advertisement for the Guest House
- a href="pix/matlockdale_hightorguesthouse_3.htm">Matlock Dale: High Tor Guest House & Suspension Bridge. The guest house in the 1930s.
The Collingwood myth debunked, the collapse of the retaining wall ....
- Matlock Dale: High Tor and High Tor Hotel, 1950s. With a
tale about pyrotechnics in the Dale in the 1830s, some badly behaved visitors in the 1950s and an advertisement from 1968..
- Matlock Dale: High Tor Guest House, From High Tor Bridge. Romantic
view of the Guest House, beautifully framed by the ironwork of the suspension bridge
- Matlock Dale: The Weir and the High Tor Tunnel. The weir was
built and goit were built for the colour works and the tunnel was blasted through in the mid to late 1840s.
- Matlock
Dale: St. John's Church, Cliff Road (1). A postcard,
a photograph and a pen and ink drawing of the privately
owned St. John's Church. It was designed by Sir Guy
Dawber and built by Mrs. Louisa Sophia Harris ››››
- Matlock
Dale: St. John's Church, Cliff Road (2). Two striking
views of St. John's Church, posted in 1905. List of
chaplains in charge.
- Matlock
Dale: St. John's Church, Cliff Road (3) - on the hillside
of Matlock Dale. Two sepia postcards, with the houses
of Common Wood below the church.
- Matlock
Dale: St. John's the Baptist Church, Interior. The
best craftsmen were employed to carry out the work.
- Images - People who
were born, lived in or visited the Matlocks
Matlock
- The
Allen Family of Dimple Farm, Matlock. This hard
working family moved into the farm around 1897
and afterwards their business became extremely
successful.
- Matlock:
Thomas Stephen Bridge & his Family, 19th & 20th
Century. The Bridge family of Lime Tree Lane and
Bank Road, some of whom emigrated to Canada.
- Matlock:
Slater and Brunt of Matlock Bank. Three generations
of the Slater family lived on the Bank in the nineteenth
century, some of whom never left Matlock. They would
have seen a great deal of change in the town over
the years. Thanks to a wonderful album designed
and sold by W. N. Statham, photographs of them
still remain with the family today.
- Matlock: Harold Joseph
Cook - a Casualty of War
- Matlock:
The Staff of Burgon's, Crown Square, 1912-14
- Matlock:
The Staff of Derbyshire Stone, about 1945
- Matlock: The Fleet Family
of Bakewell Road and the Dimple. They moved from
Cheshire to Matlock in 1906. The photos from the
family's collection show them doing a number of
different things, from playing instruments to doing
the weekly wash in the 1890s
- Mr. Chippett's
School at Riber Castle, 1918.
- Matlock:
All Saints' Schoolboys, 1904. Ninety schoolboys.
- Matlock:
The Staff of All Saints' School, 1903. The headmaster
and four female members of staff.
- Matlock Board
School Pupils, ca. 1901.
- Matlock Council School about 1904. A photograph
of 39 junior age pupils by W. N. Statham.
- Matlock
Council Junior School, about 1931 - Girls, Standard
7.
- Matlock
County Infant School Band, about 1935/6/7.
- Matlock
Council School, 1936 - Junior School (1), Group
D.
- Matlock
Council School, 1936 - Junior School (2).
- Matlock
Council School, 1938 - Group B.
- Matlock
Council School, 1938 (2).
- Matlock
Council Junior School, about 1939 - many of the pupils
here are the same children who were in the Infant
School Band photograph.
- Matlock:
Ernest Bailey's Fifth & Sixth Formers
1943-1946. Three photos of pupils. The fifth form
girls were photographed with their teacher. With
names.
- Matlock: Ernest Bailey's Sports Teams 1944-1946.
Three photos of female tennis players. With names.
- Matlock: Ernest
Bailey's Grammar School, July 1947. Pupils and Staff.
- Matlock:
Ernest Bailey's Grammar School, Vth Form Visit to
British Industries Fair, Castle Bromwich, 1949.
- Matlock:
Ernest Bailey's Grammar School Rugby Team, 1949-50.
The team en route for Ashbourne.
- Matlock: Ernest
Bailey's Grammar School, April 1950. Pupils and
Staff. A panoramic photograph that has been split
into eight sections.
- Matlock:
Ernest Bailey's Production of "Lady Precious
Stream", 1950.
- Matlock:
Ernest Bailey's Speech Day, 1951, with extracts
from the 1954 programme.
- Matlock:
Ernest Bailey's Cricket Team, 1953.
- Matlock:
Ernest Bailey's Fifth Form, 1953. Two photographs.
One is of the girls only and the other is of both
boys and girls.
- Matlock:
Starkholmes School, 1953. The pupils, with the headmistress.
- Matlock Bath
Pavilion & the Schools Mobile Library.
- Matlock & District
Amateur Operatic Society, 1930 - The Gondoliers.
Photographs of Matlock and District Amateur Operatic
Society's first productions of the Gilbert and
Sullivan opera.
- Matlock & District
Amateur Operatic Society, 1930 - The Gondoliers,
entire cast. Everyone on the stage at Matlock Cinema
House (later the Ritz Cinema).
- Matlock & District
Amateur Operatic Society, 1931-5. Photographs of
the society's productions in the first half of
the 1930s. Ruddigore (1931), The Yeomen of the
Guard (1932 - no images), The Chocolate Soldier
(1934), The Quaker Girl (1935).
- Matlock & District
Amateur Operatic Society, 1938-9. Photographs of
some of the chorus of the last two productions
of the later 1930s.
- Matlock & District
Amateur Operatic Society, 1947, 1948 and 1949.
Photographs of either the whole cast or chorus
of the first three of Matlock and District Amateur
Operatic Society's post World War Two productions
- The Geisha Girl, Goodnight Vienna and Merrie
England.
- Matlock & District
Amateur Operatic Society, 1956. Photograph of the
cast and those backstage who were involved in the
Society's production of The Gondoliers. Plus a
photo of a group at the afternoon tea at Lilybank
hydro and another of the Opera Ball.
- [Hydro] Rockside
Hydro, Matlock : Kitchen Staff & Waitresses, 1920-25
- [Hydro] Rockside
Staff Ball
- [Hydro]
Matlock: Smedley's Hydro Staff, late 1920s. Two photos
and a testimonial from a grateful patient
- Harry Douglas & Fellow
Officers, Empire Hotel Buxton, Dec 1914. Photo of
Harry Douglas in the uniform of a second lieutenant
at the start of WW1 and another with fellow officers
at Buxton.
- Matlock: The Douglas
Brothers. A photograph of the brothers as boys and
another of two of them in uniform at the outbreak
of the first war
- Lindsey
and Mary Hodgkinson of Holt Lane, Matlock. Lindsey
Hodgkinson was a Grocer and the Postmaster for
Matlock Bridge in Queen Victoria's reign. Holt
House was the family home.
- Garden Party
at Matlock Rectory - Edwardian parishioners.
- Canon Kewley & His
Sisters.
- Matlock:
Trinity Methodist Chapel Fayre. A fundraising event
in the 1950s.
- Matlock Church
Group (All Saints?) - Can you help us identify
when this was taken?
- Matlock
Bank Primitive Methodist Church, School Treat,
1904. Photograph of the annual Sunday School outing
on Whit Monday
- Matlock
Bank Primitive Methodist Church, "Young Men's
Class",
about 1904.
- Matlock
Primitive Methodist Prize Choir, about 1910/11.
- Matlock:
Production in a Church Hall, 1950s.
- Matlock
Carnival, September 1935. Mrs. Pawley crowned the
Carnival Queen. The Queen and her two attendants
were nominated by Mill owners.
- Matlock Carnival,
19 Sept 1936, Children's Fancy Dress Prizes.
- Matlock Carnival, 1937 - Queen Crowning Ceremony
on Causeway Lane. The actress Marie Ney crowned the
Queen.
- Matlock
Carnival, 1938 - Entertainments at the Band Stand.
- Matlock:
Coronation Celebrations at the Band Stand, 1937.
- Matlock:
Telephone Exchange, 1956 - the Night & Sunday
Staff. The exchange above the Bank Road Post Office
had opened in 1930.
- The
Matlocks UDC Fire Brigade, 1925-30. Pictured with
their new motor engine.
- Matlock:
Football Club Committee, 1950s. Photo of three of
the committee who re-formed the Club after WW2.
- Matlock
Town Football Club, 1931-2 season. The team were
photographed outside the Railway Hotel on Bakewell
Road.
- Matlock:
Poets' Corner, Hall Leys. Who were these men?
- Matlock
Ladies Choir (Choral Group), July 1959. Photographed
on the steps of Matlock's Methodist and United Reformed
Church on Bank Road
- Matlock:
Training College Life - The Student First Intake,
1946-8. Some of the activities, both educational
and social, of the first intake to
the newly opened college.
- Matlock
Teachers Association Summer School, 1952.
- Matlock
Training College staff and students 1955. On the
lawn of Rockside Hall of Residence.
- Matlock:
Teacher Training College - Rockside Students, 1954-6.
Description of student life at the all female Matlock
Training College based on a former student's personal
experience.
- Matlock:
Rockside Hall - Commemoration Weekends, 1955 & 1956.
Matlock Teacher Training College. Two photos of students
performing dance routines at the end of the academic
year.
- Matlock
Training College staff and students 1958. Panoramic
photo split into six sections.
- John Allen Potter
and family. A coachbuilder from Darley Bridge,
J.A.P. lived for a time in Matlock before emigrating.
A collection of family photographs, taken by several
local photographers.
- Unnamed Lady -
Do you know who she was?
- Matlock:
J. Wildgoose, Florist & Fruiterer. He
opened his Smedley Street business in 1899. With
two advertisements (1953 and 1968)
- Mrs. Robert Wildgoose
- Mrs. Wildgoose's Servants
- Matlock:
Visitors to the Hydros, Mr. George Knowles. George
Knowles, who had emigrated to the US in the 1860s,
visited Rockside Hydro in 1905 and 1906.
- Matlock:
Visitors to Willersley Castle - Terrace, 1933
Matlock Bath
- Matlock Bath: Mrs.
Jemima Ballard. Ran several businesses in Matlock
Bath at the beginning of the twentieth century
and owned a petrifying well.
- Matlock
Bath: Holy Trinity Choir, Procession of Witness,
1935. Eleven photographs.
- Matlock
Bath: Men's Cricket Team, 1930-3. Players, officials
and supporters. Many names provided.
- Matlock Bath: Donegani Family Portrait, about 1900.
- Matlock Bath: From the Eato Family Album - Pierrots & a Masson Mill Party.
The family moved to the George Hotel in late 1911.
- Matlock Bath: Charlotte Farnsworth, Poetess (1889-1971). Her
work was inspired by the village she lived in. With newspaper article of her memories.
- Matlock
Bath: Floral Fête on the Promenade, 1908. Rare
photograph of Matlock Bath's first Floral Fete, held
on the Promenade.
- Matlock
Bath: Youth Football Club, 1906-7.
- Matlock
Bath: Fountain Baths, Swimmers From Riber School.
Boys from Mr. Chippett's School attended swimming
lessons at the baths.
- Matlock
Bath's Glove Factory.
- Matlock
Bath: The Heights of Abraham, Great Rutland Cavern,
1912. Three people are standing close to the entrance
to the Great Rutland Cavern on the Heights of Abraham;
all are connected to the business in some way.
- Matlock
Bath Amateur Players, 1930s. The group performed
comedies and farce in the early 1930s at the Parochial
Hall, the Grand Pavilion and elsewhere.
- Matlock
Bath: Pantomime in the Parochial Hall, 1941. Two photos.
- Matlock
Bath: Pantomime in the Parochial Hall, 1951.
- Matlock
Bath, Visitors to - Travelling by Motor Charabanc.
What better way to remember your visit to Matlock
Bath than to have your photograph taken in the
motor charabanc that had brought you to the village
for the day? Here are 24 photos.
- Matlock
Bath: Visitors to Cliff House, 1906. A family group
on the garden terrace, enjoying lovely summer weather.
- Matlock
Bath, Visitors to - Elkes Girl Pipers, 1937. They
played at the Floral Fete.
- Matlock
Bath, Visitors to - Queen Mary, 1913. To mark
her visit Queen Mary accepted a Blue John vase from
the Matlock Bath Council and residents.
- Matlock
Bath, Visitors to - the Royal Hotel, August 1909.
Matlock Bath's premier hotel attracted wealthy
guests in the Edwardian era.
- Matlock
Bath, Visitors to - Vick, Ashworth & Co., 1904.
Programme of an annual "works outing".
-
The Key family of Matlock Bath, Cromford & Matlock, 1921 - a family group, taken
by Winter of Derby, to celebrate their mother's birthday.
- Matlock Bath: Percy
Rowbottom, artist and photographer (of Matlock Bath).
- Matlock
Bath & District: WW1, three Soldiers from.
The identity of the soldiers is unknown. They may
or may not have a Matlock Bath and district connection,
though the evidence points to them having some link.
- Matlock
Bath: The White family of Bonsall, Scarthin & Matlock,
about 1908. Charles White, his wife and 6 children
moved from Bonsall to Scarthin in 1905.
- Matlock Bath:
Mrs. Mary Widdowson.
- Matlock Bath: Angelina Woodiwiss Meets the Marquess
of Hartington. This Upper Wood resident had donned
on antique silk dress for the occasion.
- Matlock
Bath: Woodbank Fire Drill, before WW1
- Matlock
Bath: Soldiers Billeted at Cromford Court in WW2
- Matlock
Bath: FHA Visitors to Cromford Court, 1933 onwards.
Cromford Court (formerly Woodbank) was open throughout
the year and was also used as a conference centre.
Four photos, the first including the founder of FHA,
C. H. White.
Matlock Dale
- [Matlock Dale]
Phoebe Bown. One of Matlock's more unusual characters,
Phoebe stood out from the crowd. She could play
the flute, the violoncello, and harpsichord and
was largely self educated. Not all the claims about
her life are true.
- [Matlock Dale] Matlock Bath: Group outside Findern House,
Artists' Corner, 1939. The Kirkland family with Mrs. Knight.
- [Matlock
Dale] Mrs. Mary Whittaker, Aërated Water Manufacturer.
Lea and Holloway
- Miss Florence Nightingale, 1820 - 1910. A remarkable woman whose
persistent hard work and resolute determination changed nursing and hospital care for ever.
- The
Lady with the Lamp filmed at Lea Hurst, 2-3 July
1951. Ten photos of Anna Neagle and Herbert Wilcox,
taken before and during shooting the film's last
scenes.
Scouts
- Matlock: 5th
Matlock Scouts, 1920s.
- Matlock:
Scout & Cubs Rally, Sunday, 7 September 1946
(1). Photograph at a rally attended by Scouts and
their leaders from the 4th Matlock and 5th Matlock
Troops, plus cubs, with names.
- Matlock:
Scout & Cubs Rally, Sunday, 7 September
1946 (2). Photograph at a rally attended by Matlock & District
Cubs.
- Matlock:
4th Matlock Scout Camp at Barmouth, 1949/51. Five
photographs of the 4th Matlock Troop.
- Matlock:
Scout Leaders with Haydn Dimmock, about 1951. Apart
from B-P, Dimmock did more to promote the Scout movement
than anyone else.
- Matlock
Bath: Great Scout Parade, Royal Hotel, 18th March
1917. Local troops were inspected by Baden Powell
during the first Scout Conference.
- Matlock
Bath: Baden Powell Scouts, 1933 - Bugle and Drums
(1). Rovers and Scouts, with names.
- Matlock
Bath: Baden Powell Scouts, 1933 - Bugle and Drums
(2). Rovers, Scouts and Cubs, with names.
- Matlock
Bath: Baden Powell Scouts - Annual Entertainment,
1934. Pantomime in the Parochial Hall.
Starkholmes
- Starkholmes
ARP Wardens, about 1940. Air Raid Precaution
Wardens played a vital part in Britain's defence
during the Second World War
- Matlock: Starkholmes VE Day Celebration / Welcome
Home, 1945. Neighbours welcoming home a Prisoner
of War at the end of WW2.
- Starkholmes
Sunday School Picnic, about 1920/1
- Starkholmes
Village Hall, 1953. Pupils from both Starkholmes
School and Matlock Town School outside Starkholmes
Village Hall
- Starkholmes
Village Maypole Day, 1950s
- Starkholmes
Women's Institute, late 1953 - Tree Planting. The
WI bought two cherry trees to commemorate the coronation
of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Photographers
Matlock
and Matlock Bath's early photographers. An illustrated
account of the photographers who lived or had studios
in Matlock and Matlock Bath from the earliest times
until just after after the Second World War.
- Weddings
- Images, Matlock - "Just"
Images ››››
More images, that do not have their own page
- Images, Matlock Bath - "Just"
Images ››››
More images, that do not have their own page
- Images, Matlock Dale - "Just"
Images ››››
More images, that do not have their own page
- Images, Magic Lantern
Slides and Vista Screen views - "Just" Images ››››
More images, that do not have their own page
- Images, Miscellaneous -
"Just" Images ››››
More images, that do not have their own page
- Images: Links to Images and Information elsewhere on the web site and to other web
sites
- Images: The Vernon Lamb Archive, A Unique Photographic Record of Matlock and
District, 1910-1915, and World War One Soldiers
Note: for the time being only the index pages are listed here.
- About the Archive
- Vernon Lamb, photographer, and his family
- Matlock & District soldiers in the same regiment
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Children, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Commercial: quarry, shops, hydros (without
people) and other businesses, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Cycles, Cars and Other Transport,
Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Events: District - Darley Dale
and Tansley, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Events: Matlock, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Groups: Formal and Informal, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Groups: Family, not taken in the
studio, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Hydros and Convalescing: Bank House (later
Wyvern House), Chatsworth (Jeffs' Poplar), Jackson House, Oldham House, Smedley's, Derby & Derbyshire
Convalescent Home, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, People in Uniform - Non-Military:
bands, firemen, church lads' brigade, scouts, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Places: A church, houses and farms, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Rural Life, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Sports & Sports Clubs, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Singles & Couples, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Studio Portraits, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Weddings and Christenings, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Working Men and Women, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, World War One Recruits: Before the
Conflict. National Reservists and Matlock Patriots, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, World War One Soldiers, Groups of 1, 2 or 3.
Portraits to send home to the family - mostly Sherwood Foresters, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, World War One Soldiers, Groups:
Men in the early stages of the War. Mostly Sherwood Foresters, Index
- The Vernon Lamb Archive, Groups - with Civilians: With the family, at the billet, etc.
- Matlock's Historical Records (QuickList). This index includes links to lists included elsewhere on the site map:
- Census Full list under Census above
- Church & Chapel Registers Full list under Church Records above
- Documents Relating to Matlock
& Matlock Bath from the Middle Ages to the Reign of
Charles I
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists Through the Centuries - Index
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Sixteenth Century and Before -
Lay Subsidy Roll (1327-8), Lists containing 5 names or less.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Seventeenth Century - Vills
& Freeholders (1633), Matlock Glebe Terrier, 1673, Lists containing 5 names or less.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Seventeenth Century -
Ayd to His Majesty King Charles I / the "Forced Loan" (1627).
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Seventeenth Century:
William Walker's Charity, 1634-35. A pre-Civil War charitable bequest to relieve the poor of Matlock.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Seventeenth Century - The Free
and Voluntary Present, 1661.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Seventeenth Century: Collection
for poor relief, June 1665. A collection from the parishioners of the Bank in the reign of Charles II to provide relief
for the poor of the parish.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Seventeenth Century: Thomas Johns'
Will - Bible Recipients, 1668 - he gifted 40 bibles to Matlock people in his will.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Seventeenth Century - The Hearth Tax, 1670.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Seventeenth Century: Charles II's Poll Tax,
1678 to fund a war against the French King. Many names, including some of wives.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Seventeenth Century - The Recusant Fines, 1681-2
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Eighteenth Century - Licences for
badgers, drovers, hucksters and swailers, Lists containing 5 names or less
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Eighteenth Century: Removal Orders,
1712-1789. Individuals could be returned to their parish of legal settlement when they needed or were likely to need parish relief.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Eighteenth Century - Land Tax, 1712 (part extract
only), with addition of the last part of the tax collected in 1711.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists : The Eighteenth Century: Matlock Glebe Terrier, 1722
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Eighteenth Century: Statute Labour,
1761. Every inhabitant was required to help the parish maintain its roads. Surveyor list of persons liable to do statute work.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Eighteenth Century - Poor Charge, 1778.
Payments made to the needy within the parish by the Overseer of the Poor.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Eighteenth Century - Court Quarter
Sessions, 1773 - 1800 people who were summoned to appear before the court or convicted
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Eighteenth Century - Land Tax, 1780 (part extract
only), covering mostly Riber, Matlock Town and Starkholmes, the Lea part of the parish and what is Willersley today.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists Through the Centuries: The Eighteenth Century: Parish
of Matlock Poor Rate, 1784 (part 1). Property valuation of the better off in the parish. This was done in two sections.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists Through the Centuries: The Eighteenth Century:
Parish of Matlock Poor Rate, 1784 (part 2). The second part of a property valuation of the better off in the parish.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Eighteenth Century - Game Duty
Lists, Gentlemen's and Gamekeepers' Certificates, 1785 - 1799
- Matlock & Matlock Bath ListsMatlock & Matlock Bath Lists: - Horse Tax Register (1785)
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Eighteenth Century - Association
of the Inhabitants of the Parishes of Ashover, Bonsall, Darley, & Matlock, For the Prosecution of Felons, &c., 1799
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - List of Subscriptions
for the Erection and Support of the Intended Derbyshire Infirmary, 1805 |
+ Lists containing 5 names or less - Derbyshire Militia Return 1812, Deserter Index, Derbyshire County Councillors,
Lunacy Returns, 1828
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Volunteer
Infantry Lists Roll I. Militia (1809) | Matlock, Dethick and Lea Volunteers (1803) | Wirksworth Battalion (1803 - 1808)
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Matlock School
Charity (1814), with list of pupils
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Matlock,
All Saints' School: Admissions Register, sample of entries 1895 - 1898; School Log Book, sample of entries 1875 - 1879
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Arrivals
at Matlock Bath, 1820-1850. European Royal families and nobility, British politicians, academics, clergy, members of
the British aristocracy and upper and middle classes of society.
- Proposed House of Industry, 1831-2. A Workhouse was being considered for Matlock parish.
- Petition on behalf of Thomas Bunting. Applicant for the post of master, 1835. This was
sent to the Trustees of the Matlock Free School.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Before the
Board at Bakewell, 1838-1841
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Manorial
Records, Extracts from 1851
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Items
delivered to Matlock Railway Station, 1851
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Subscription
for the relief of the Cumming children, 1852
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Contributions
to the Patriotic Fund, 1854
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Matlock
Cricket Club, 1857 - 1900
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Owners of
Land, 1873
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Church Fundraising,
1859, 1886 - 1895
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Rebuilding
Derby General Infirmary - Fundraising in May, 1891
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Game Duty
Lists, Gentlemen's and Gamekeepers' Certificates, 1800 - 1852
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Keeping
Law and Order : New Constables for Matlock, 1844 | Magistrates for the County | J.P.'s | Sheriffs | Deputy-Lieutenants | County Police
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Nineteenth Century - Vaccination
Cases - August 1898
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Twentieth Century - Matlock
Bath Men Serving King and Country, 1914
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Twentieth Century:
Matlock Station Staff, 1911 - 1966, A - J
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists: The Twentieth Century:
Matlock Station Staff, 1911 - 1966, K - Y
- Directories Index, Nineteenth Century - Commercial, Trades and Private Residents.
- Matlock Advertisements in Various Directories - Transcripts.
- Matlock Taverns & Pubs Listed
in Early Directories - Pigot (1821-2), Glover (1827-29),
Pigot (1835).
- Brewer's Derby Circular
Guide, and Commercial Directory for 1823 and 1824, Matlock
extracts
- Glover's Directory of
the County of Derby accurately taken during the years
1827, '8, and '9, by Stephen Glover.
- Pigot and Co.'s National
Commercial Directory, 1828-9, pp.139-140 Matlock, Matlock
Bath, Bonsall, Darley and Neighbourhoods.
- Pigot's Directory, 1831
Matlock and Matlock Bath with the village of Bonsall and
neighbourhood.s
- Pigot & Co.'s Royal
National Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties
of ... Derbyshire ... (July 1842), Matlock and Matlock
Bath, with the village of Bonsall and neighbourhoods.
- Bagshaw's Directory Matlock
Alphabetical and Trades Directory (1846).
- (Kelly's) The Post Office
Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire
and Rutlandshire (1848) pp. 2461-2463.
- Matlock Parish: Gazetteer
and General Directory of Sheffield, and all the Townships,
Parishes and Villages Within the Distance of Twenty Miles
Round Sheffield by William White (1852) transcript of
pp. 544-546.
- (Kelly's) The Post Office
Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire
and Rutlandshire (1855) transcript of pp.107-109.
- Francis White's Derbyshire
Directory (1857) transcript of pp.440-444.
- White's General Commercial
Directory and Topography of the Borough of Sheffield with
all the Towns, Parishes, Villages and Hamlets Within a
Circuit of Twenty Miles (1862) pp. 277-279.
- (Kelly's) The Post Office
Directory of the Counties of Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire,
Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutlandshire (1864)
pp. 277-279.
- (Kelly's) The Post Office
Directory of the Counties of Derby, Leicester, Rutland
and Nottingham (1876) pp. 141-144.
- Kelly's Directory of the
Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891)
- Matlock Bath pp.255-257.
- Kelly's Directory of
the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891)
- Matlock Bank & Moor pp.257-258.
- Kelly's Directory of
the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891)
- Matlock Bridge pp.259-259.
- Kelly's Directory of
the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891)
- Matlock Town & Matlock Green p. 259.
- Kelly's Directory
of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland
(1891) - Riber & Starkholmes pp. 254, 255 & 259.
- Kelly's Directory of the
Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891) - Local Boards Magistrates & Public Officers.
- 1895 Bulmer's Directory : Matlock Bath, Scarthin &
Starkholmes, with Local Information, Alphabetic Directory and Trades and Professions.
- 1895 Bulmer's Directory : Matlock &
Riber (1). Local Information.
- 1895 Bulmer's Directory : Matlock & Riber (2).
Names A - J. The first part of the alphabetic directory covers the whole of Matlock and Riber.
- 1895 Bulmer's Directory : Matlock & Riber (3).
Names K - W. The second part of the alphabetic directory covers the whole of Matlock and Riber.
- 1895 Bulmer's Directory : Matlock & Riber (4).
Trades & Professions.
- Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts,
Leicester and Rutland (1895) - Matlock Bath. Private Residents and Commercial Premises.
- Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby,
Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1895) - Matlock Bank and Moor. Private
Residents and Commercial Premises
- Kelly's Directory
of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1895) - Matlock Bridge.
Private Residents and Commercial Premises
- Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts,
Leicester and Rutland (1895) - Matlock Town & Matlock Green. Private Residents and
Commercial Premises.
- Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and
Rutland (1895) - Riber & Starkholmes. Private Residents and Commercial Premises.
- Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire
and Rutland (1899) - Matlock Bath. Private Residents and Commercial Premises.
- Kelly's Directory
of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire
and Rutland (1899) - Matlock Bank and Moor. Private
Residents and Commercial Premises.
- Kelly's Directory
of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire
and Rutland (1899) - Matlock Bridge. Private Residents
and Commercial Premises.
- Kelly's Directory
of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire
and Rutland (1899) - Matlock Town & Matlock Green.
Private Residents and Commercial Premises.
- Kelly's Directory
of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire
and Rutland (1899) - Riber & Starkholmes. Private
Residents and Commercial Premises.
- Directories Index, Twentieth Century - Commercial, Trades and Private Residents
- Matlock and Matlock Bath
Names in the London Gazette: Army and Regimental Promotions,
Bankruptcies, Business Partnership Changes, Civil Service
Examinations, Orders of Chancery, Changes of Name, Company
Liquidations, Acts of Parliament, Debtors, Honours, Inland
Revenue Declarations (Banks), Property Sales, Wills
- Magazines and Journals,
Index to Articles Published in
(also see Newspapers)
- Reflections
- Roy Christian
- Other
- Maps of Matlock, Matlock Bath & District, Index
- Map of Matlock, Matlock Bath & District, 1888, by Bartholomew
- Map of Riber, Starkholmes & Hearthstone, 1903 - section of OS map, by Stanford
- Map of Matlock Bath, 1907. Map designed to show a series of paths around
Matlock and Matlock Bath, including walks over Masson and walks from Upper Wood to Bonsall and the Via Gellia
- Map of Matlock, Matlock Bath & District, 1908. Map by Emery Walker
- Midland Railway Distance Diagram, Matlock & Matlock Bath, 1913. Shows all the
railway stations, bridges, sidings, signal boxes and tunnels between Darley Dale and Cromford,
with distances
- Matlock & Environs, published 1926 but drawn in the 1890s. A John Bartholomew map published
in a Ward Lock guide
- Google Maps ››››
- Memorial Inscriptions (MI) Index
- MIs, St. Giles' Church, Matlock - in the Church
- MIs, St. Giles' Church, Matlock : in the Churchyard, areas A - D
- MIs, St. Giles' Church, Matlock : in the Churchyard, areas E - H
- MIs, St. Giles' Church, Matlock : in the Churchyard, areas I - M
- MIs, St. Giles' Church, Matlock : in the Churchyard, areas N - R
- MIs, Matlock, Finding the Churchyard Inscriptions. Downloadable / printable sketch
map for Visitors to the Churchyard
- MIs, Matlock Methodist and United Reformed Church, Bank Road. Formerly Matlock
Wesleyan Chapel and then Trinity Methodist Church
- MIs, Holy Trinity Church, Matlock Bath - in the Church
- MIs, Holy Trinity Church, Matlock Bath - in the Churchyard
- MIs, Matlock Bath, Finding the Churchyard Inscriptions
- MIs, Miscellaneous Memorials and Inscriptions, with photographs ››››
- Memorial Inscriptions of Matlock People Found Overseas
- Memorial Inscriptions (MI) Surnames Index
- Memorials, War. Scroll down to War Memorials
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Pedigrees & Coats of Arms.
Pedigrees provided for some of the movers and shakers of Derbyshire Society and of families who lived in the Matlocks
for many generations.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Newspaper Cuttings:
A collection of newspaper reports that were published over 75 years ago. This is the new index, in a new section of the site and covers
a wide range of events in Matlock, Matlock Bath, Riber, Scarthin and Starkholmes. They reveal all kinds of historical snippets,
with some longer reports or items of significant interest given their own web page.
- Matlock, Riber & Starkholmes Newspaper Cuttings. The selected reports begin with a quack
doctor and the death of a married woman in 1745 and finish with the death of Matlock's then oldest resident in 1928.
- Matlock Bath & Scarthin Newspaper Cuttings. Beginning in 1751 with the Old and
New Bath and ending just before the outbreak of the Second World War with a family funeral.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Public Notices & Announcements. Subjects include sales of property
and goods and businesses opening or closing, currently between the years 1758 and 1916.
- Visit of Princess Victoria & Her Mother, 1832. A good
deal has been written over the years about this mid-autumn visit to Matlock Bath by the thirteen year old Princess and
her mother.
- The Matlock Bath Riot, 1863. On Saturday 29th August a
large party of Sheffield workers and the managers, clerks and their wives arrived in Matlock Bath for a works outing.
The day was to go horribly wrong.
- The Murder of Martha Morrall, 26 March 1891. During the evening of 26 March 1891 an elderly lady,
Mrs. Martha Morrall, was shot through the kitchen window of her home on Bent Lane (now Cavendish Road). Mrs. Morrall and her husband were
Quakers.
- Celebrating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897. Matlock and
District marked Queen Victoria's sixty years on the throne in some style on Jubilee Day itself. Bunting was put up and there
were lunches and teas, sports and bands entertained the crowds. In the evening there were torchlight processions,
lighted candle displays and beacons were lit. The walks in Matlock Bath the were lit with fairy lamps and illuminated
boats were out on the river.
- Matlock & Matlock Bath Newspaper Cuttings, Jul 1914 - Nov 1918. Deals with the First World
War, so from the outbreak of war in Europe on 28 July 1914* until shortly after the armistice on 11 November 1918.
It begins with a regatta and ends with a wounded soldier, covering a wide range of new stories that are not included
elsewhere on the site. Britain did not enter the war until 4th August 1914.
- Roy Christian newspaper articles
- Other articles
References and General Information
Strays Index
War Memorials
Wills Calendar, Index
Wolley Manuscripts, The : Matlock and District, from the catalogue at County Hall LSL
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : About
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Abbreviations & Conventions
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Place Names
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Manuscripts, The : Surnames
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6666 & 6667 (excl.ff.144-211)
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6667 - WOLLEY family
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6668
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6669
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6670-5
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6676-80
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6681-86
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6687-90
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6691-6
- Wolley Manuscripts, The : Vol.6697-6715
What's New Index
- What's New This Year (2022)
- What's New 2021
- What's New 2020
- What's New 2019
- What's New 2018
- The years 2000 and Before, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
2016, 2017 have been archived and are no longer available
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