Bemroses'
Guide to Matlock ... , about 1869* |
Eighteenth and nineteenth century tour guides
about Matlock Bath and Matlock |
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Four Smaller Advertisements
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John Clark, Joseph Greaves, Joseph Radfirth
and Matthew and Mary Stevenson, with a few additional notes |
Born in South Witham, Lincolnshire, John Clark worked as a photographer
or photographic artist in Matlock Bath for a number of years,
and advertised in trades directories between 1864 and 1876: Kelly's
Directory 1864 |
Kelly's
Directory 1876.
He was in the village at the time of the
1871 census | the
1881 census
Joseph Greaves also advertised as a chemist in the Kelly's 1864 Directory:
Kelly's
Directory of 1864
Joseph Radfirth, whose advertisement is above, died "rather
suddenly"
on 25 August 1869, aged 28 ("Derbyshire Times",
11 September 1869), and his MI is onsite:
Read his MI
Matthew Stevenson was born in Stanton Lees and his wife Mary was from
Belper.
The Trades Directory for 1876 shows him at Bellevue and he was still
there in 1887.
Trades
Directory for 1876
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*'Bemroses' Guide to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall,
&c' by John Hicklin, Third Edition, pub Bemrose and Sons,
London (no date, but about 1869).
Reproduced here with the very kind permission and help of Sonia Addis
Smith, whose book this is from.
OCRed and images scanned by Ann Andrews, 2001 - 2004.
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