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| Matlock Bath, Twentieth Century Photographs, Postcards, Engravings & Etchings | ||||||||||||||||
from an original drawing by the webmistress's father. |
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The Pitchings rises steeply from South Parade. The narrow roadway is called Pitchings after the pitch stones - hard stone cobbles - that were used to surface it. Hodgkinson's Hotel, the building behind the tree, was where coaches travelling through the village used to change their horses. Matlock Bath has been a popular tourist centre since the beginning of the last century, when people first visited the village to take the waters or to just 'Promenade'. The village's popularity cannot be over-exaggerated; in the year 1912 some 12,000 people had already entered the village by midday on Good Friday!  Hodgkinson's
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Print, from a drawing by and part of the Frank Clay collection, and additional information provided by and © Ann Andrews Intended for personal use only Image and text originally part of derbyspics.htm and later derbys.htm that were elsewhere on this website |
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