The postcard is called "Matlock Bridge" but it also shows Matlock Bank and was taken from just behind Dale Road / Snitterton Road, probably from the footpath which runs just west of the line of the railway line (please email if you disagree, as it could be from slightly higher up).

Although a large portion of the Bank was green when this picture was taken, the open spaces have been considerably developed over the intervening one hundred or so years. Bank Road climbs the hill in the centre of the picture, with Lime Grove Walk going off to the right. The trees on Lime Grove Walk are a little more mature than in the previous image and there are a few more houses on the road. Edge Road is beginning to develop as well - not seen on the previous image. The two communities of Matlock Bank and Matlock Bridge are gradually being joined together.

There is no sign of the tram on Bank Road^[1]. The vehicle in the road just below what is now the Methodist and United Reformed Church is a horse and cart.

Smedley's, Matlock House and Rockside Hydros can all be seen higher up the Bank. Rockside was yet to change into the building we recognize today^[2]. Wyvern House, later Ernest Bailey's School and now the County Record Office, is slightly above the centre of the picture. The buildings on the edge of Hall Leys Park which were very close to the Bridge, and demolished many years ago, can also be seen.

Also look at Images No 2, 3 and 4 of Just Images Matlock. Compare those pictures with this postcard.

This card was originally thought to date from around the 1904 postmark, but closer examination and further checking indicate that the picture was taken in 1892.

References (coloured links are to transcripts and information elsewhere on this web site):

^[1] See Bank Road and the Tram

^[2] See Rockside Hydro, Matlock, 1903 and Rockside Hydro, Matlock, 1908