1. The New Bath Hotel from the top of Cat Tor.
This relatively modern photo shows the hotel and its approach roads, with the surrounding verges completely re-landscaped. Gone are the houses, the bakery and petrifying well^[1] that were opposite the old Matlock Bath School building on Derby Road; these buildings can be seen on many old postcards^[2]. The former old road - New Bath Road - up to the hotel now forms part of the hotel's driveway/parking area although the section where the cars are (on the right) no longer connects to the A6, apart from via a footpath. The toll bar on Derby Road was close to that junction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries^[3].
It is interesting to see how much of Upper Wood peeps through the trees.

2. Matlock Bath and the Heights of Abraham, also taken from the top of Cat Tor.
The viewing platform at the Heights can be seen on the hillside above the Upper Tower. On the lower left of the picture is Matlock Bath school on Clifton Road, which has replaced the nineteenth century building on Derby Road. On the right can be seen the modern footbridge spanning the River Derwent. There are also modern buildings on either side of the church, including the vicarage^[4].