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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.


"All-British" Postcard, published by C. M. Tinti, Matlock Bath. No. 5192-3, it was part of a series of pictures she took and pubished in postcard format. Unposted but probably taken before WW1
In the collection of, provided by and © Ken Smith and scanned by Ann Andrews Intended for personal use only

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[1] Approximate date provided by Bunting, Julie (2002) "Matlock and Matlock Bath", Tempus Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7524-2455-6