The Dale and High Tor in 1909. Amongst the trees below the rock face is a gap in the High Tor Tunnel. It has been covered over for safety reasons, but it used provide the briefest glimspe of the Dale before the train continued on its journey to either the Bath or the Bridge. It is surrounded by a stone wall that was at a precarious angle, but was designed to stop rocks, and sometimes humans, falling onto the tracks from above.

The small building next to the blacksmith's shop on the riverbank opposite the gates of Tor Cottage, shown in the previous picture, has gone and the blacksmith's itself seems to have been rebuilt as it now had a corrugated iron flat roof.

The long sign is, disappointingly, just an advertising hoarding - "Drink Hills Chain Ales and Stouts".

The turbulent water in the river was caused by rocks on the river bed, the remains of a former weir.
Matlock Bath: View of High Tor, by F. Chantrey, 1822.
Matlock Dale: High Tor & the Suspension Bridge over the Derwent.