| Matlock and Matlock Bath Images |
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Matlock's Floods
The River Derwent has flooded many times in the town's history |
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Funeral Garlands in Matlock Church
An ancient custom. Includes an engraving taken from 'Bemroses' Guide
to Matlock' (dated about 1869) and a recent photograph of one of the
garlands that has been restored. |
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Matlock and District Amateur Operatic Society,
1908
Image of the cover, which has a drawing of the Victoria Hall. Lists who
was involved in the production and advertisers. Also 9 otherprogramme covers |
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Bank Road and the Tram
At the beginning of the twentieth century Matlock proudly boasted that
it had the steepest tramway in the world |
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The War Memorials
Pictures both old and new and lists of the names of the fallen of both
Matlock and Matlock Bath |
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"The Varied Fortunes of a Derbyshire
Spa" first appeared in "Country Life" on August
15, 1963. It is a lively and stimulating article about the Matlocks
by the lateRoy Christian and reproduced
here with his very kind permission. It is complemented by the lovely
b&w photographs of Frank Rodgers. |
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Arkwright and His Cotton Mill
Arkwright's Masson Mill was the third mill he built in the locality. It
provided employment long after other mills had closed |
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Other
pages within The Andrews Pages, mentioning Matlock & Matlock
Bath
Other Websites,
mentioning Matlock & Matlock Bath
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- Peter Aspey's web
site
Go to his 'Personal Details' for a picture of Matlock Bath
in 1870 and one of the Heights of Abraham, which his family owned,
about 1960
- Rosemary
Lockie's GENUKI site, under Cromford.
Lovely old postcard, labelled "The Tors, entering Cromford," the
house shown is Scarthin Lodge, Matlock Bath. This was one of
the lodges for Willersley Castle and the gates can also be seen
in this picture.
Also see the Images
Index on Derbyshire GENUKI for elsewhere in the county
- Ann
Rayner's engraving of "Matlock Bath"
The engraving was executed on Ashford black marble. The engraving
is in now Buxton art gallery and there's a photograph and information
about Ann, her husband and children, most of whom were artists,
on the Dudley Mall website
See daughte Louise's biography on
the Matlock website
- Matlock
- Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment
John Palmer's image of the Grand Dining Hall, about 1890,
from a "visiting card" by W W Winter
- The
Victorian Turkish Bath Databank
A not-for-profit educational project in the UK by Malcolm
Shifrin. Malcolm has included quite a few images about hydropathy
treatments, amongst which are:
Hydropathy & the
wet sheet pack | The
water cure: | getting
well drench'd, & wrench'd, & restored to health
Smedley's
Hydro at Matlock Bank | The
water cure: the wet sheet pack
- 'Life
in a Lens'
A museum in Matlock Bath dedicated to presenting the history
of photography in an accessible manner.
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Other Websites,
More General Images
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- English
Heritage have placed more than 20,000 previously unseen
images on the internet. Try searching by Derbyshire - there
are quite a few, including Masson Mill
- National
Portrait Gallery - search the collection for more pictures
of Florence Nightingale and Richard Arkwright
- Photographs
of Derby and Derbyshire
Andy Savage's site had more than two thousand pictures when I
last looked
Then and Now compares a view of Matlock Bridge and the
Bank with a photograph from the 1950's
- Photo-Ark An
online collection of old UK photographs, postcards and images
- Tate Gallery
London
Amongst the collection is:
Water
colour of the 'Rocks at Matlock' by Sir Robert Ker Porter
(1777 - 1842), which is part of the Oppé Collection
- Picture
the Past
A project digitising the photos of Derby City Libraries and Derby
Museums, and Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Libraries.
The biggest photo resource on Derby and Derbyshire, and one of
the biggest such resources in the country.
- Photographers & Photographic
Studios of Derbyshire, England
Ongoing study of 19th and early 20th Century Derbyshire studio
photographers. With index of known dates of operation, plus profiles
of selected studios. By Brett Payne, of Tauranga, New Zealand
- Photographs
by Julie Woodhouse
Julie lives in Tansley and photographs landscapes from various
parts of the world, including many of Derbyshire, which are commercially
available.
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