Two very similar views that late nineteenth century and early twentieth century visitors to Matlock Bath's Royal Pavilion or Old Pavilion would have seen - of Temple Walk, Waterloo Road, Masson Road and Holme Road shown against the backdrop of High Tor. They were taken from the terraces of the Palais Royal on Matlock Bath's Heights of Jacob. In the top picture the Upper Tower and the terrace and buildings of the Great Rutland Cavern (Nestus Mine) can be seen on the Heights of Abraham. The lower picture is probably the slightly more recent of the two.

The Palais Royal, as it was known, was opened by Sir Edward Cavendish is 1884 and one of the promenade terraces is in the foreground of both photographs. When the webmistress was a child they were "the turrets" and local children played here; the Pavilion was by then a ruin. Some fifty years later they are in the grounds of Gulliver's Kingdom. Bottom right and almost out of the shots are rooftops of what were the Fishpond Stables, later demolished to make way for the Grand Pavilion (now the Mining Museum).