Other pages within The Andrews Pages, mentioning Matlock & Matlock Bath

• Frank Clay, artist.
  Examples of the work of a Derbyshire artist. Frank was Ann's father
  
  

Other Websites, mentioning Matlock & Matlock Bath

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• An Old Matlock Pics group on Facebook was set up in 2014. Andrew Bagshaw is its head administrator.
  
  
• Rosemary Lockie's Wishful Thinking 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 Wishful Thinking for other places in the county.
  
  
• Ann Rayner's engraving of "Matlock Bath"
  This engraving was executed on Ashford black marble and is now held by Buxton Art Gallery but all that is currently available is a blog.
  See daughter Louise's biography on the Matlock website.
  [Unfortunately, the Dudley Mall website that was about the Rayner family and their art work is no longer available.] I will try to find a new link to this.
  
  
• Matlock - Smedley's Hydropathic EstablishmentJ
  John Palmer's image of the Grand Dining Hall, about 1890 (though possibly later), 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.
  [Unfortunately, after almost 20 years in Matlock Bath, Peter Hague's Victorian Teashop and Museum closed in 2019. This information will be deleted shortly.]

Other Websites, More General Images

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• Britain from Above - aerial photographs
  
  
• 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
  
  
• The FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge
  They have a lovely painting of High Tor, by John Crome (about 1811). You will have to use their search facility, which I have found to be extremely slow.
  
  
• National Portrait Gallery - use their search facility to search the collection for more pictures of Florence Nightingale and Richard Arkwright
  
  
• Photographs of Derby and Derbyshire
  Andy Savage's site had more than three 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
  
  
• Tate Gallery London
  Use their search faci8lity to locate:
  Water colour of the 'Rocks at Matlock' by Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777 - 1842), which is part of the Oppé Collection.
  Three Turner sketches
  Photos of River Castle taken by John Piper
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Mace Archive - Media Archive for Central England (video clips)
  There used to be a sub-section for both Matlock and Matlock Bath but this seems to have gone. Just type either place into the search box and you will find several options
  Matlock | Matlock Bath (original links unavailable)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• The site to Photographs by Julie Woodhouse, who lived in Tansley, is no longer available. Her work included photographs of landscapes from various parts of the world, including many of Derbyshire, and which are/were commercially available.