The photograph was taken by Calitta M. Tinti (née Whittaker)
of Matlock Bath. Just visible on the top of High Tor is the
wooden Refreshment Room that was burned down around 1997
or 1998[1]. In
the valley below is the house where Calitta's son, Remo,
lived and operated his coal business from for many years
(one of the houses bottom, right). He provided coal for most
of Matlock Bath.
Further along the road is a building next
to the pavement with two pairs of semi detached gabled houses
next to it, set back slightly to the left. In the 1960s these
houses hit the headlines when the owners had a luck escape
as part of the hillside collapsed behind them about breakfast
time, demolishing one of the buildings. The remaining pair
of houses also had to be demolished. Interestingly, if you
look at the coloured "Switzerland View" in the "Just
Images"
Matlock Dale section of this website, which was posted in 1910, you will
observe that these houses had not been built when that image was taken.
You need
to look hard at the photo above but you can just about
see the bridge across the river that leads to the colour
works, which is roughly opposite. |