Matlock and Matlock Bath Guides : Bemroses' Guide (13), Four Smaller Advertisements

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Bemroses' Guide to Matlock, 1869*

Eighteenth and nineteenth century tour guides about Matlock Bath and Matlock

Four Smaller Advertisements

Bemroses' Guide

Matlock's Scenery

Caverns, Rocks, Museums, Church

Bath to Dale

Walk to Willersley

Black Rocks
to Parish Church

High Tor & Antiquities

Matlock Bank & Riber

Walks & Places of Interest

Mr. Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment

Walker's Museum

Matlock House & Rockside

Royal Cumberland Cavern

Clark Greaves
Radfirth & Stevenson

Further Information

Matlock & Matlock Bath Photographers

River Derwent and the Devonshire Hotel

Belle Vue Hydro

- for John Clark, Joseph Greaves, Joseph Radfirth
and Matthew and Mary Stevenson, with a few additional notes

J. Clark, Photographer of Museum Parade.
Image scan 2004 Ann Andrews

John Clark, who was born in South Witham, Lincolnshire, worked as a photographer or photographic artist in Matlock Bath for a number of years, and advertised in trades directories between 1864 and 1876: Kelly's Directory 1864 | Kelly's Directory 1876.
He was in the village at the time of the 1871 census | the 1881 census

The Derwent Parade Pharmacy of J. Greaves.
Image scan 2004 Ann Andrews

Joseph Greaves also advertised as a chemist in the Kelly's 1864 Directory:

Kelly's Directory of 1864

Joseph Radfirth's. Devonshire Hotel, Matlock Bath.
Image scan 2004 Ann Andrews

Joseph Radfirth, whose advertisement is above, died "rather suddenly"
on 25 August 1869, aged 28 ("Derbyshire Times", 11 September 1869), and his MI is onsite:

Read his MI

Mr. & Mrs. Stevenson's Hydropathic Establishment, Matlock Bank
Image scan 2004 Ann Andrews

Matthew Stevenson was born in Stanton Lees and his wife Mary was from Belper.
The Trades Directory for 1876 shows him at Bellevue and he was still there in 1887.

See a Trades Directory for 1876

*'Bemroses' Guide to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, &c' by John Hicklin, Third Edition, pub Bemrose and Sons, London (1869).
Reproduced here with the very kind permission and help of Sonia Addis Smith, whose book this is from.
OCRed and images scanned by Ann Andrews, 2001 - 2004.

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