Here are two wonderful panoramic views of Matlock Bath and Masson hillside taken from Starkholmes, with the Victoria Tower peeping above the trees on the skyline on the right. Just tucked into the hillside on the lower right of the picture and hardly visible is the railway station and the road bridge that serves it spans the Derwent left of centre. The station's sidings are on the far left.

We can see the properties in the northern part of Matlock Bath, where the valley has slightly widened. By this time housing had spread up the hillside from North Parade, via Holme Road. The number of houses in Upperwood Road had significantly increased, too.

Many of the houses that face Starkholmes have stone frontages, which blends in well with the landscape, although a number of the the Holme Road area properties were brick built at the rear.

On the bend opposite the junction of Holme Road and Brunswood Road is a large detached house called The Laurels; it just left of centre. A 1945 sale notice described it as two minutes walk from the station, which seems a little optimistic, but it would have taken longer walking uphill^[1]. In 1911 the Shinwell family who lived there had a number of [paying?] guests staying with them.

The houses on Brunswood Road continue straight on (almost horizontally on the card and facing the photographer) whereas Holme Road climbs the steep hillside towards Masson and Upperwood Roads. Masson Road is the highest of the roads to the right of centre and Upperwood Road is the highest on the left.

The row immediately above Brunswood road is made up of Hope Terrace and Clarence Villas. At the left hand end of Hope Terrace is another large building - Clarence House - which was initially used for hydropathy. At the time this picture was taken Eliza Aspey was running it as apartments^[2].

The first Vicarage (later the YMCA) is the very large house standing on its own above the railway buildings.

Enlargement of part of the right hand section of the top postcard to show the Brunswood Road area.

The view is almost identical to the top image, although we can see a little more of the station's sidings.
Since then there has been few new builds in this part of Matlock Bath, apart from a few garden infills.
The card's message says "Nice place but very hilly". It does make you wonder what this particular visitor was expecting.