Other Websites, mentioning Matlock & Matlock Bath

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• Peter Aspey's website
  Go to his 'Personal Details' for a picture of Matlock Bath in 1870 and one of the Heights of Abraham, which his family owned, about 1960
  
  
• Rosemary Lockie's GENUKI site, under Cromford.
  Lovely old postcard, labelled "The Tors, entering Cromford," the house shown is Scarthin Lodge, Matlock Bath. This was one of the lodges for Willersley Castle and the gates can also be seen in this picture.
  Also see the Images Index on Derbyshire GENUKI for elsewhere in the county
  
  
• Ann Rayner's engraving of "Matlock Bath"
  The engraving was executed on Ashford black marble. The engraving is in now Buxton art gallery and there's a photograph and information about Ann, her husband and children, most of whom were artists, on the Dudley Mall website
  See daughter Louise's biography on the Matlock website
  
  
• Matlock - Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment
  John Palmer's image of the Grand Dining Hall, about 1890, from a "visiting card" by W W Winter
  
  
• The Victorian Turkish Bath Databank
  A not-for-profit educational project in the UK by Malcolm Shifrin. Malcolm has included quite a few images about hydropathy treatments, amongst which are:
  Hydropathy & the wet sheet pack | The water cure: | getting well drench'd, & wrench'd, & restored to health
  Smedley's Hydro at Matlock Bank | The water cure: the wet sheet pack
  
  
• 'Life in a Lens'
  A museum in Matlock Bath dedicated to presenting the history of photography in an accessible manner.
  
  

Other Websites, More General Images

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• English Heritage have placed more than 20,000 previously unseen images on the internet. Try searching by Derbyshire - there are quite a few, including Masson Mill
  
  
• National Portrait Gallery - search the collection for more pictures of Florence Nightingale and Richard Arkwright
  
  
• Photographs of Derby and Derbyshire
  Andy Savage's site had more than two thousand pictures when I last looked
  Then and Now compares a view of Matlock Bridge and the Bank with a photograph from the 1950's
  
  
• Photo-Ark An online collection of old UK photographs, postcards and images
  
  
• Tate Gallery London
  Amongst the collection is:
  Water colour of the 'Rocks at Matlock' by Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777 - 1842), which is part of the Oppé Collection
  
  
• Picture the Past
  A project digitising the photos of Derby City Libraries and Derby Museums, and Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Libraries. The biggest photo resource on Derby and Derbyshire, and one of the biggest such resources in the country.
  
  
• Photographers & Photographic Studios of Derbyshire, England
  Ongoing study of 19th and early 20th Century Derbyshire studio photographers. With index of known dates of operation, plus profiles of selected studios. By Brett Payne, of Tauranga, New Zealand
  
  
• Photographs by Julie Woodhouse
  Julie lives in Tansley and photographs landscapes from various parts of the world, including many of Derbyshire, which are commercially available.