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| The Church and Boat House, Matlock Bath, 1905 | ||||||||||||||
| Matlock Bath : Twentieth Century Photographs, Postcards, Engravings & Etchings | ||||||||||||||
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(a selection)  Pic Tor  High Tor, 1904  The Derwent, Matlock Bath - and the Ferry  The Ferry House  The Heights of Abraham, from the Derwent, 1904 |
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Boating has long been a pastime in Matlock Bath. "On a fine summer evening, many parties go to regale themselves with a sail, and loiter on the waters sometimes to a late hour" (Adam, p.55 [footnote][1]). "A sail by moonlight is deeply interesting" (ibid, p.55[1]). This postcard is from an oil painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley, an artist who lived in Matlock Bath at the beginning of the twentieth century. This version is a Christmas Greeting and was sent from Redruth by J and W Menhennet to a Miss Martin in Penzance on 23 Dec 1905. This may be the postmark, but the painting may date from quite a bit earlier. Cubley has not painted the Switchback Railway in the scene, which we know dates from 1889[2]. He may deliberately have omitted the structure, but it is more likely that he painted this picture just before the Switchback was erected, as he was living in Matlock Bath by the 1891 census[3]. |
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A Ralph Tuck & Sons "Oilette" [Regd,] Postcard 1660. Art Publishers to their Majesties the King and Queen. Postcard in the collection of, provided by and © Ann Andrews Intended for personal use only |
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| References (coloured links go to onsite transcripts or other information): [1] Adam, W. (1840) "The Gem of the Peak" London; Longman & Co., Paternoster Row MDCCCXL [2] See Switchback, Rise & Fall [3] 1891 census entry for the Cubleys, when the were living at Montpelier |
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