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PLEASE NOTE:
Copyright notices on new images are being placed higher up
the onsite images. This is because of various instances
of improper use.
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| Dec 2021 |
Additions to:
1. Hall's "Days
in Derbyshire", 1863. There are two new pages
and a lengthy addition to a third page to this Victorian
guide, as well as a number of new images. |
| Nov 2021 |
New page:
1. Matlock:
Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1950-1966 (7): Boden,
Briddon, Coleman, Farmer, Greatorex, Hall & Co.,
Holmes, Oliver, Manchester Store, Marchant Brooks,
Matlock Building Supplies, Rawson, Rowell, Smith, Spark.
More from Maureen Smith's collection. |
Additions to:
1. Matlock & Matlock Bath: Inspiration
of Poets. Six more poems added.
2. Matlock
Bath: Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1900-1955. Temple
Hotel added. |
| Oct 2021 |
New pages, with images from the Maureen
Smith collection:
1. Matlock:
Ernest Bailey's Fifth & Sixth Formers 1943-1946.
Three photos of pupils. The fifth form girls were photographed
with their teacher. With names.
2. Matlock:
Ernest Bailey's Sports Teams 1944-1946. Three
photos of female tennis players. With names. |
Additions to:
1. Matlock Bath: Rider
Point, Via Gellia. A fourth postcard
has been added, making it 5 images in total. Plus there
are additions to the accompanying text.
2. The Pig of
Lead Inn, Via Gellia, Matlock Bath, 1903.
A slightly earlier image has been added.
3. Matlock:
Hall Leys, Tennis, Boating Lake & Paddling
Pool, late 1930s to 1950s. Now includes information
about the Matlock tennis tournament of 1946.
4. Matlock's Schools in Earlier
Times. The cover of the Bailean has been added to the
Ernest Bailey's section (from the Maureen Smith collection).
Plus details of the initial impact of WW2 on the school.
5. Matlock & Matlock Bath: Inspiration
of Poets. A Visit to St. Giles' Churchyard, Matlock,
Easter Sunday, 1974 added. |
| Sep 2021 |
Additions to:
1. Nos.
1 and 2 South Parade, Matlock Bath, 1906. Another,
slightly later, image added.
2. Masson
Mill from Harp Edge, about 1900. A coloured image added,
as well as info about the people who lived at South End
at this time.
3. Matlock's Schools in Earlier
Times. Info about changes in education, including non-fee
paying places and and Matlock's School Board between 1891-1901+
added under "Key Milestones". Also more about the British
School in Matlock. |
| Aug 2021 |
New page:
1. Matlock
Bath Amateur Players, 1930s. The group performed comedies
and farce in the early 1930s at the Parochial Hall, the
Grand Pavilion and elsewhere. |
| Jul 2021 |
New page:
1. Matlock
Carnival, 1937 - Queen Crowning Ceremony on Causeway Lane.
The actress Marie Ney crowned the Queen. With thanks to
the Lynch family. |
Additions to:
1. Matlock Dale:
Heath Bank, around 1900. A Lynch family photo of the
house, circa 1919, has been added and the page updated.
2. Matlock & Matlock
Bath: People of the Past.
A short biography of J. J. Lynch, by Nick Lynch, is now
included. |
| Jun 2021 |
New pages:
1. 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. Older photo
from the Maureen Smith collection, with many thanks.
2. 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. Image
from the Maureen Smith collection.
3. 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. Images from the Bernice Stoddart collection.
Theatre tickets
from the Maureen Smith collection.
4. Lists
Through the Centuries: The Seventeenth Century: Thomas
Johns' Will - Bible Recipients, 1668 - he gifted 40
bibles to Matlock people in his will. |
Additions to:
1. MI, with photo,
for WW2 casualty Roy Wherrett and his parents. From
the Maureen Smith collection.
2. Matlock:
Starkholmes, Sheffield Works Societies' Convalescent Home.
A more recent photo of the property has been added. With
thanks to the Lynch family. |
| May 2021 |
New page:
1. 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. |
Additions to:
1. Matlock
Bath: River Derwent & the Devonshire Hotel,
1890. A high quality albumen photo of buildings
reminiscent of Venice on the riverbank of the Derwent in
Matlock Bath replaces a miniview. Re-written.
2. Rockside Hydro,
Matlock : Kitchen Staff & Waitresses,
1920-25. Page re-named as an early 1920s photo of ten
young waitresses (and a slightly older man) has been added. |
| Apr 2021 |
New pages:
In the section covering Matlock
St Giles' Church Marriages:
1. Witnesses to Marriages
(1800 - 1816)
2. Witnesses to Marriages
(1817 - 1828)
3. Witnesses to Marriages (1829 - 1837)
Over 1600 more names have been added.
With very grateful thanks to Susan Tomlinson for continuing
to transcribe the marriage witnesses up until Civil Registration
was introduced in 1837. The
additions contain some really interesting names and Susan's
help has proved invaluable.
More from Mike's collection:
4. Lists
Through the Centuries: 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.
5. Lists
Through the Centuries: 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.
From the Maureen Smith collection:
6. Matlock:
Ernest Bailey Secondary School Prospectus, 1930s. A
booklet that would have been given to prospective pupils
or their parents.
7. Matlock:
Starkholmes & the Coronation of King George
VI, 1937. Starkholmes decided to hold its own celebrations
on Coronation Day.
8. Matlock:
Starkholmes VE Day Celebration / Welcome Home, 1945.
Neighbours welcoming home a Prisoner of War at the end
of WW2.
And from the Bernice Stoddart collection:
9. Matlock
Carnival, September 1935. Mrs. Pawley crowned
the Carnival Queen. The Queen and her two attendants were
nominated by Mill owners. |
Addition to:
1. Unveiling Matlock
Bath's War Memorial. A little about the cost has been
added.
2. Miscellaneous Memorials
and Inscriptions in the Matlocks. A description of
a plaque to Rev. Bellamy of Glenorchy has been found in
a newspaper.
3. Matlock
Dale: The Weir and the High Tor Tunnel. Coloured postcard
added. |
| Mar 2021 |
New pages:
From the Mike Spencer collection:
1. Lists
Through the Centuries : The Seventeenth Century: Charles
II's Poll Tax, 1678 to fund a war against the French
King. Many names, including some of wives.
2. Lists
Through the Centuries: The Eighteenth Century - Association
of the Inhabitants of the Parishes of Ashover, Bonsall, Darley, & Matlock,
For the Prosecution of Felons, &c., 1799.
**Please note that a number of files in the Lists section
of the website have been renamed so they are in chronological
order.**
From the Maureen Smith collection:
3. 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.
4. Matlock:
Training College Life - The First Student Intake, 1946-8.
Some of the activities, both educational and social, of
the first intake to the newly opened college.
From the Bernice Stoddart collection:
5. Matlock Bath: Angelina
Woodiwiss Meets the Marquess of Hartington. This Upper
Wood resident had donned on antique silk dress for the occasion. |
Additions:
1. Matlock: Bank
Road (7), 1901-1905. A second postcard and more information
about Yew Tree House.
2. The War Memorials.
Some of the deceased soldiers' names were included in Matlock's
Absent Voter's List (1918). They have all now been included.
3. Scarthin
Nick : Staffordshire Row & Chapel Hill, 1905.
Additional information.
4. Starkholmes
ARP Wardens, about 1940. Additional names, with thanks
to Grenville Smith.
5. Strays, Surnames N.
Burial and MI for W. H. Nixon, one time vicar of All Saints'.
With thank to Rosemary Lockie.
From the Maureen Smith collection:
6. Lists
Through the Centuries: The Nineteenth Century: Matlock
Cricket Club, 1857 - 1900. Photographs of a medal awarded
to W. Hursthouse for the highest number of catches in 1897.
7. A number of MI's have been added, some with images.
See MI surname Indexes for
BEDDINGTON, BODEN, COOPER, CROFT, STEELEY, WILDGOOSE. The
Wildgoose grave is commemorates the WW1 War casualty Ernest
Henry.
8. Canon Kewley & His Sisters.
A letter sent by Rev Kewley has been found inside a pocket
testament sent to Arnold Hursthouse during WW1. Further
information about the former Rector and his family has
been added as well.
From the Bernice Stoddart collection:
9. Matlock
Bath: North Parade, 1920s. Three new images and additional
info.
10. Matlock
Bath: South Parade, 1920s. Now includes a photo of
a Spa Service charabanc or bus. |
| Feb 2021 |
New pages:
From the Maureen Smith collection:
1. Matlock:
Chatsworth Hydro "Tariff Souvenir" Brochure,
about 1931-2. Early 1930s 16 page souvenir published by
the hydro's new owners.
2. Matlock Council
School about 1904. A photograph of 39 junior age pupils by W. N. Statham
3. Matlock
Council School, 1936 - Junior School (1), Group D.
With many names.
4. Matlock Council
School, 1938 - Group B. With many names. |
Additions:
1. Bank Road & the Steep-Gradient
Tramway. Six additional
images. The page has been re-organised and there is a considerable
amount of new material.
2. Matlock
: General Views of Matlock Bank and Bridge, 1911-14. For
some years the Hall Lees has a pierrot stage.
Additions, from the Maureen Smith collection,
to:
1. MIs St. Giles' Church,
Matlock : in the Churchyard, areas I - M. MI for Isaac
Smith and 4 children.
2. MIs St. Giles' Church,
Matlock : in the Churchyard, areas E - H. MI for Wherrett.
3. Memorial
Cards, surnames S-W. For Hannah and Thomas Wooding.
4. Matlock:
The Park and Tram Shelter. A postcard from before WW2
has been added. |
| Jan 2020 |
New page:
From the Maureen Smith collection:
1. Matlock:
Oldham House Hydro, Multi-view. Jackson and Sons
postcard dating from early twentieth century, with five
images of the hydro. |
Additions, from the Maureen Smith collection,
to:
1. Matlock:
Bottom of Bank Road & The Lido. A W. N. Statham
photo of attendees at the opening ceremony in 1938.
2. Matlock:
Hall Leys, Boating Lake. A fifth postcard added, showing
the newly opened lake.
3. Matlock: Riber Hall,
1926 - 1939. A second drawing of the Hall, and the owners
in the first half of the twentieth century. It was also a
museum for a time. Also a postcard back from Susan Tomlinson's
collection has been added to this page.
4. Matlock:
Rockside - Teacher Training College, 1945-88.
A photograph of Rockside is now included.
5. Matlock Bath:
The Fish Pond (1), 1911 - 14. Black and white card published
in 1914 from Maureen's collection and a coloured version
of the same image, from the Ann Andrews collection. The page
has been rewritten.
6. Matlock Bath:
The Fish Pond, late 1920s. A second image has been added,
that was produced in both sepia and black and white.
7. Matlock
Bath: Fluor Spar Cavern, Heights of Jacob. A rare image,
of "Jacob's Cave", has been added.
8. Matlock
Bath: Lover's Walk, Riverside Path. Postcard from the
Nottingham Publishers C & A Lewis, who produced a large
number of photographic cards in the 1920s.
9. The Promenade,
Matlock Bath. Now includes an early picture of the tufa
fountain that was removed when the road was widened.
10. Matlock
Dale: St. John's Church, Cliff Road (1). Undated black
and white photo of the church. |
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