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| May 2022 |
New Page:
Matlock Bath: Masson House & Masson
Terrace. Traces the life of Adam Wolley's late eighteenth century home. His daughter
and son in law lived here afterwards. The growing family of Thomas Clarke were here at
the end of the nineteenth century. Painting and several photos of their time in Matlock
Bath, with thanks to Jo Fenwick, and an advertisement from the 1930s. Also a photo of
Masson Terrace; this row of houses, also late eighteenth century, disappeared when the
A6 was widened. |
Additions to:
1. Matlock: St. Giles' Church and Green,
1914. Two recent photographs added. With thanks to Grenville Smith. |
| Apr 2022 |
New Pages:
Matlock Station Stone Yard: Messrs Beck,
Boden & Drabble. Early 20th century photograph of the station yard, busy with
masons preparing and finishing stone ready for sending on to destinations
throughout the country. |
Additions to:
1. Lead Mining in Matlock & Matlock
Bath has a new section - From 1910 to the 1940s.
2. Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
A further 24+ names have been added.
3. Matlock's Schools in Earlier Times. Three photos
of Starkholmes School - from the Maureen Smith
collection, with thanks. One is of the first school, built in 1878/9, and the other
two show the replacement building. |
| Mar 2022 |
New Pages:
Nothing this month. |
Additions to:
1. Some additions to Pedigree of Hayward of
Senior Field, Matlock & Carsington.
2. Matlock Bath: Holy Trinity
Church Interior,1907. An 1845 sketch by William Adam is now included.
3. Matlock:
Letterheads of Local Businesses, 1900-1949 (5), Surnames S
- T: Sout[t]er, from the Maureen Smith collection. |
| Feb 2022 |
New Pages:
1. Matlock
& Matlock Bath Lists Through the Centuries: The Seventeenth
Century: William Walker's Charity, 1634-35.
A pre-Civil War charitable bequest to relieve the poor
of Matlock. With thanks to Susan Tomlinson
2. Matlock & Matlock
Bath Lists Through the Centuries: The Eighteenth Century:
Poor Charge, 1778. Payments made to the needy within
the parish by the Overseer of the Poor. From Michael Spencer's
collection.
3. Matlock & Matlock
Bath Lists Through the Centuries: The Eighteenth
Century: Matlock Land Tax, 1780. This is only a part transcript,
but yields a wealth of information, with a number of then prominent
or significant land owners. Surnames include Wolley, Hodges,
Hodgekinson and Moresby as well as the Reverends Holcombe and
Hinkesman. Also from Michael Spencer's collection. |
Additions to:
Flooding in the Matlocks. Photographs of the
February floods caused by Storm Franklin, with grateful thanks to Susan
Tomlinson. |
| Jan 2022 |
New Page:
1. 1871 Census, Distribution
of Occupations. An examination of the occupations of
those living in Matlock and District at the time of the
1871 census. highlights major changes across the seven
Enumeration districts (EDs) within the Parish of Matlock.
Most of these changes were on Matlock Bank, with the ever
increasing popularity of hydropathy and the number of recently
built establishments involved in the industry. |
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