| Dec 2008 |
New pages:
- Images:
1. Cottages, Matlock Dale, 1899 Designed by the archiect Sir Guy Dawber. His drawings were published in "The Building News"
2. Matlock Bank, 1908 - a view from Masson. With many thanks to Ray Ash
3. Chatsworth Hydro, Matlock -
this was initially called Poplar Cottage and the Jeff's Poplar Hydro and was originally run by the Davis family
4. Matlock Bath: The Promenade - this water feature opposite the old Fountain Baths disappeared when the road was widened
5. Road Widening at Matlock Bath, 1967 - a series of five photographs showing the work in progress. With grateful thanks to Ken and Steve Smith |
Additions to magazine article:
- Joseph Whitworth - "Lives Which Hung by a Thread"
Someone who both owns and is well informed about the Whitworth Sharpshooter has supplied information and a photograph of the rifle to replace the picture originally provided. Whilst he does not wish to be named, the contribution both adds enormously to the magazine article and corrects some of it. The webmistress is extremely grateful for this help. |
Additions to:
- Strays: Almost 1200 new names, extracted from several census returns |
| Nov 2008 |
- Matlock St. Giles Parish Church Burials - Surnames Index. This index has now been removed as various corrections to spelling have made it out of date |
New pages:
- Images:
1. Matlock Bath from Waterloo Road
2. Matlock Bath: Lovers' Walk
3. New Bath Hotel, Matlock Bath (2)
4. Matlock Bath from the Palais Royal (Old Pavilion) - the view late nineteenth century and early twentieth century visitors to Matlock Bath's Old Pavilion would have seen
5. Matlock Bath, Promenade and Memorial
6. Matlock Bath: Royal Hotel & Baths
7. Royal Hotel & Baths, Matlock Bath (2) showing the later extension at the rear which survived the fire of 1929
8. Matlock Bath: Youth Hostel, 1960 - the First Vicarage
Plus four photographs from the 1928 Ward Lock Guide, all generously contributed to this website by Ray Ash:
9. Matlock Bath: The Fish Pond A slightly earlier photograph than the coloured one that has been on the site for some years
10. Matlock Bath: The Parade
11. Matlock Bath: North Parade
12. Matlock Bath and the Derwent - it shows the enlarged Royal Hotel only a year before the fire that destroyed the main building
Photos of Matlock:
13. Matlock: Smedley's Church, Smedley's Hydro, 1885 - a photograph from the original glass negative
14. Plan of Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment, Matlock, 1875 |
Additions to:
- Images:
Some names have been added to the following photos, with very grateful thanks to Norman Ash
1. Matlock
Council School, 1936
2. Matlock Council School, 1938
3. Matlock Council Junior School, about 1939
4. Church Group Visiting Ashbourne |
Additions to:
- Strays: ALLEN | BERRISFORD (from Jame Steer - thank you) | BEELY | DUNN | ROBINSON | WHEATCROFT |
| Oct 2008 |
Nothing uploaded during October |
| Sep 2008 |
Additions to:
- Strays: TOMLINSON (2) |
Additions to:
- Names on Matlock's War Memorial : Surnames A - J More about Casualties GIBB | HAYNES
- Names on
Matlock's War Memorial : Surnames K - W More about Casualties PARTRIDGE (2) | RADFORD | RILEY | SMITH (Joshua) | SWINSCOE | THOMPSON | WALTERS |
| Aug 2008 |
Additions to:
- Pre 1858 Wills SMITH - four names (1841 - 57) |
| Jul 2008 |
Additions to:
- Matlock
Bath Burials 28 more from 1869-70, mostly from Mike S - many
thanks |
Additions to:
- Strays:
Burials GREAVES | PLATTS | SMITH | STEVENSON | WILDGOOSE from Mike S |
| Jun 2008 |
New pages:
Directories:
- Glover's Directory
of the County of Derby accurately taken during the years 1827,
'8, and '9, by Stephen Glover
- Pigot and Co.'s
National Commercial Directory, 1828-9, Matlock, Matlock Bath,
Bonsall, Darley and Neighbourhoods |
New pages:
- Images:
1. Matlock:
Pic Tor and Riber Castle, with War Memorial, 1935
2. Matlock:
Rockside Hydro, 1933 A top quality hotel, with information
about the people who ran it
3. Matlock:
Smedley's Memorial Hydropathic Hospital Founded by
Mrs. Smedley
4. Matlock Bath: Fish Pond Stables, 1907 The Royal Pavilion
(Mining Museum) was built on this site
5. Matlock
Bath Station and High Tor - Matlock Bath station was built
in the style of a Swiss chalet. It was extended in the 1890s.
Includes photos of the station today
6. Matlock
Bath: Midland Express Passing Through the Station Early
twentieth century card of the station and the goods yard
7. Matlock
Bath: Temple Hotel - The Temple Hotel is one of Matlock
Bath's oldest hotels
8. Matlock
Bath: Men's Cricket Team, 1930-3. Players, officials and
supporters. Many names provided |
Additions to:
- Quotations from Arthur Mee's "Derbyshire"
in The King's England Series have been added to the following
pages:
Florence
Nightingale's Balcony, Lea-Hurst, Nr. Matlock | Biographies (see Nightingale) | In
Via Gellia, near Matlock Bath, 1906 |
Additions to:
- Strays:
Baptisms SKIDMORE | SLACK (2) | SMEDLEY (4) | SMITH (13) | SPENCER
(2) | STAFFORD | STANDALE | STEWARD | SWIFT (9)
1871 Lancashire census GREGORY | WHITE (3). Thanks Brian
1881 Census: BUCKLEY (2) | GAMBLE | GEARRY | GEROGERCY [GREGORY?]
| GIBSON | GILBERT | GLADWIN | GOODALL | GOODLAD | GOODWIN |
GOULD | GRASSER (2) | GRATTON | GREATOREX (2) | GREAVES (2)
| GREGORY (9) | NEAL | NEEDHAM | NEWBOLD (6) | NICHOLSON | NOTON
| PEARSON (9) | PEAT | PHILLIP | PIDCOCK | PILKINGTON (2) |
PLATTS | ROBINSON (2) |
| May 2008 |
New pages:
- Images:
1. Matlock
Bath, 1806 - Engraving from "A Guide to all the
Watering and Sea-Bathing Places; with a Description of the Lakes"
2. Matlock:
Chesterfield House Hydro, 1918 - Ralph Davis and John Smedley
were the first two people to open hydropathic establishments
on Matlock Bank and Chesterfield House was Davis's second independent
hydro
3. Matlock:
Smedley's Hydro and Grounds, 1952 A centenary multi-view
card
4. Matlock:
The Derwent, about 1910
5. Matlock:
St. Giles' Parish Church, Matlock Bridge, 1908 - with a
short description by J. Charles Cox written in 1915
6. Matlock:
Willersley Castle - includes some information about Willersley
after the Arkwright family had left
7. Matlock
Council School, 1938
8. Matlock Council Junior School, about 1939 - many of the
pupils here are the same children who were in the Infant School
Band photograph
9. Matlock
Bath: Royal Pavilion and Spar Shop - Royal Pavilion
and the Heights of Abraham on Masson hillside
10. Matlock
Bath: Woodbank, later Cromford Court - It was built
by John Edward Lawton, a Cotton Manufacturer from Manchester,
who was in partnership with Frederic Charles Arkwright at one
stage
11. In Via Gellia,
near Matlock Bath, 1906 |
Additions to:
- Strays:
1. 1851 Census Lancashire - BRIDDON. Thanks, as always, to Brian
G.
2. Baptisms GREGORY | HEDGECOCK (2) | WILDGOOSE from Mike Spencer
- also many thanks |
Additions to:
- Matlock
Bath Burials 23 more from 1867-8, mostly from Mike S - many
thanks |
Redesign
1. Schools
2. Water Cures
Thumbnails have been added to some of the links, especially
to pages of photographs of former pupils, for easier navigation.
A little more has been added about the Cavendish School.
Thumbnails have already been added to the Churches
and Chapels and the Stone
Quarrying pages |
| Apr 2008 |
New pages:
- Images:
1. Matlock
Bath: Boating on the River Derwent and a little about some
of the accidents there have been
2. Matlock
Bath: Upper Tower, Heights of Abraham Early twentieth century
sepia postcard
3. Matlock
Bath from Cat Tor a coloured version of the card
4. Matlock
County Infant School Band, about 1935/6/7 Help needed with
names and a more accurate date, if possible.
5. Matlock
Council School, 1936. Help needed with names, if possible.
6. Matlock
: High Tor Guest House, 1945-50 Tor Cottage was built in
Matlock Dale by Colonel Edward Payne in the early nineteenth
century Added mid April, so later than the others in this
list
7. Florence
Nightingale's Balcony, Lea-Hurst, Nr. Matlock
And 5 pages of mid 19th century images from John Smedley's "Practical
Hydropathy":
8. Matlock:
View From Matlock Bank
9. Matlock:
Smedley's Hydro, Public Drawing Room
10. Matlock:
Smedley's Hydro, Starting Out
11. Matlock:
Smedley's Hydro, Extending the Hydro
12. Matlock:
Riber Hall |
Redesign
- Images:
The sections Just
Matlock | Just
Matlock Bath | Just
Matlock Dale | and Miscellaneous have been redesigned to show all the half size images that are
available. Only a few selected images were shown previously.
The sections 18th
& 19thC, with info | Matlock,
20/21C,with info | Matlock
Bath, 20/21C, with info | People,
with info all now have thumbnail images as an aid to navigation
so you can preview the image before visiting the page |
Additions to:
1. Magic
Lantern Slides has been renamed and now includes both Magic
Lantern Slides and Vista Screen views. The Vista Screen views
are all of the Heights of Abraham and are available to view
in a variety of sizes
2. Stone Quarrying in the
Matlocks Additional photographs of the Cawdor quarry site,
with very grateful thanks to Paul Kettle
3. The War Memorials Photograph of the memorial on the Hall Leys, also with very
grateful thanks to Paul Kettle |
| Mar 2008 |
New pages:
- Images:
1. Matlock
Bath: General View from The Heights of Abraham, about 1914
2. Matlock
Bath and the Heights of Abraham, about 1898 - the view from
the Station Approach looking towards the opposite hillside of
Masson and the Heights of Abraham
3. The
Cascade near Matlock Bath, late 18th century - an etching,
published in the Lady's Magazine - the original was published
in "The Modern Universal British Traveller".
4. The
Church and Boat House, Matlock Bath, 1905 - from an oil
painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley
5. Matlock
Bath: North Parade, 1908 - a coloured postcard showing Fountain
Villas
6. Matlock
Bath, High Tor and the Colour Works - how and why a Colour
Works became established below High Tor in Matlock Dale
7. Matlock: A Peep at Riber Castle - the view from Matlock
Bath
8. Matlock:
The Quarry - this view of the quarry on Dale Road was perhaps
a water colour sketch
9. Matlock:
Church from Hawe Leys, 1906 - from an oil painting by Henry
Hadfield Cubley
10. Matlock:
The Old Bridge - postcard of a painting by Henry Hadfield
Cubley
11. Matlock
& District Amateur Operatic Society, 1930s - photographs
of some of the chorus in two productions |
New Pages:
Matlock & Matlock Bath:
Poetry - poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Additions to:
- Matlock
Bath, Illuminations & Venetian Fête in the 1950's Notes from the private papers of Mr. Frank Clay have been added
- The War Memorials: A photo of a china replica of Matlock's memorial has been added.
With thanks to Peter Allen
- Water Cures A picture
of the marquee Mr. Smedley's employees worshipped has been included |
Additions to:
- Strays:
1. 24 people found in living Lancashire in the 1861 Census
ATHERTON BOWKER BOWNE BRIAN [sic - BRYAN] DANVERS FOWDEN FRITH
GOODWIN GUEST HARD (5) HAWLEY HURSTHOUSE MARCHINGTON RAINS SKIDMORE
SMEDLEY TURNER (2) WILDGOOSE WRAGG
2. 4 in 1891 elsewhere in Derbyshire:
HAYNES HOLDEN RAINS NIGHTINGALE
3. 1851 census - BOWNE (with thanks to Jean Calloway) | WOOD
(3 in LAN)
4. 1871 census - ATHERTON WAGSTAFF, with thanks to Brian Greatorex,
a regular contributor to Lancashire found strays
5. NUTTALL (9), NUTTLE (2) - various years, from personal research
by the webmistress
5. Stray baptisms - DICKINSON FARNSWORTH (2) LEE
6. Strays in Bonsall PR, with thanks to Mike Spencer - ALLEN
BUXTON GRATTON HOLMES KINDER (3) KIRKLAND (2) LOMAS WALKER WARD
WIGLEY
7. Stray in Stony Middleton PR, with thanks to Mike Spencer
- MASONe |
Additions to:
- Matlock Burials
(Additions) 25 more names very kindly provided by Michael
Spencer
- The War Memorials: Have linked several names into MIs. Also added the Theatre of
War as some soldiers served on several continents
- Names on
Matlock's War Memorial : Surnames A - J Possible identification
of F BUXTON
- Private Charles Fox, whose name appears on both the Matlock and Starkholmes
War Memorial has been identified
- Wills:
(mentioned in) ARKWRIGHT (2) GREAVES SPENCER |
Corrections to:
- Strays:
BRANDOW to BEARDOW (c1851) | FANLKINS to FAULKNER (c1851) |
GREENALAH to GREENHALGH (c1851) |
| Jan 2008 |
New Pages:
Lists Through the
Centuries:
A 1. Matlock
Bath Men Serving King and Country, 1914
The following new pages contain information that was originally
on other pages:
B 1. The
Seventeenth Century - Ayd to His Majesty King Charles I / the
"Forced Loan" (1627) The page is new, but the
information was originally included under 17th
Century Lists
B 2. The
Nineteenth Century - Keeping Law and Order : Magistrates
for the County | J.P's | Sheriffs | Deputy-Lieutenants | County
Police. The page is new, but the information was originally
included under 19th
Century Lists
B 3. The
Nineteenth Century - Items delivered to Matlock Railway Station,
1851. The page is new, but the information was originally
included under 19th
Century Lists |
New pages:
- Images:
1. Matlock
Bath, The Royal Hotel
Matlock Bath's top class Royal Hotel, which replaced The Old
Bath Hotel, was burnt down in a fire
2. Matlock
Bath: The Royal Pavilion (The Kursaal), 1915
Matlock Bath's Royal Pavilion, built in 1910, was originally
known as the Kursaal |
New page:
- Taken Back
In Time - Lilybank (Newspaper article)
Originally presented as an interview for Radio Derby about her
schooldays at The Lilybank Presentation Convent (the Nagle Preparatory
School), Sally Mosley later published an article in The Peak
Advertiser. It describes what the inside of the Hydro was like
shortly after it was sold to the Convent |
Additions to:
Matlock & District
Amateur Operatic Society, 1908
1951 programme cover added |
Additions to:
- Matlock &
Matlock Bath Public Notices & Announcements See 1855.
Announcement of Hydropathy in Matlock |
Additions to:
- Miscellaneous Memorials
and Inscriptions
Glenorchy Chapel. Memorial commemorating 5 men who died in WW1
- BODEN (2) FINNEY HALL WILDGOOSE |
Additions to:
- Strays:
MOORLEY | RAMSDALE (both 1901). N.B. Hilda Moorley was the mother
of Margot Fonteyn |
Additions to:
- Names on
Matlock's War Memorial : Surnames A - J See George ELSE |
