The Andrews Pages Images Index> Matlock Bath, 20th and 21stC Images> This page Matlock Bath, South Parade & the Pitchings Matlock Bath, Twentieth Century Images   20th & 21st C Images Next Image Previous Image Similar/related views Edwardian Matlock Bath South Parade, 1909 card Matlock Bath Today More Matlock Bath Pictures 18th & 19thC "Just" Images Matlock Bath General Info About Matlock Bath Find a Name Print of The Pitchings, Matlock Bath with the wooded Heights of Abraham in the background, from an original drawing by the webmistress's father. The Pitchings rises steeply from South Parade. The narrow roadway is called Pitchings after the pitch stones - hard stone cobbles - that were used to surface it. Hodgkinson's Hotel, the building behind the tree, was where coaches travelling through the village used to change their horses. Matlock Bath has been a popular tourist centre since the beginning of the last century, when people first visited the village to take the waters or to just 'Promenade'. The village's popularity cannot be over-exaggerated; in the year 1912 some 12,000 people had already entered the village by midday on Good Friday! Hodgkinson's Hotel website Print, from a drawing by and part of the Frank Clay collection, and additional information provided by and © Ann Andrews Intended for personal use only Image and text originally part of derbyspics.htm and later derbys.htm that were elsewhere on this website © 1996 - Ann Andrews (click link to contact). All Rights Reserved. Last Update: 29 February, 2008 About and Conditions of Use | Site Map, Matlock | Part of The Andrews Pages - www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com