Matlock and Matlock Bath Images: Smedley's Hydro, Matlock

Here is a slightly different view of the imposing frontage of Smedley's Hydro; the angle of the photograph seeming to make the side of the building that faces Matlock and High Tor look shorter than it is. Creeper is beginning to obscure the lettering on the front, but it was certainly large enough to have been easily spotted from some distance away. But most people would have recognized this imposing building on the Bank, anyway, from its sheer size.

The senior staff and people running the hydro were unchanged from those who were there in 1906; Henry Challand was the managing director, Ernest Wilmot the secretary and George Harbison and Robert MacLelland were the two physicians.

The card was posted 13th September 1927
Image kindly donated by Photo-Ark © 2003

Elsewhere on this website:

1. Mid 19th century images from John Smedley's "Practical Hydropathy":

	Matlock: Smedley's Hydro, Public Drawing Room
	Matlock: Smedley's Hydro, Starting Out
	Matlock: Smedley's Hydro, Extending the Hydro

2. Other pages of interest:

Advertisement in Hall's "Days in Derbyshire" (1863)

Advertisement for Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment, 1869

"There Was Red Tape at Smedley's Hydro Then"

Water Cures (covers what became of the hydros)

Bank Road and the Tram

About Matlock Bank

See Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment Enumeration Book in the 1891 census

And in the 1901 census