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About Derbyshire by Edward Bradbury, 1884.* |
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Advertisement for Herbert Buxton's Royal Museum, from p.34.
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Herbert Buxton ran his own "Museum" on South Parade, which he took over from his father John.
Their Museum stood beside the River Derwent and the shop sold spar and marble ornaments to the tourists.
Two photographs of the items he sold survive (see the link below). He bought the Switchback Railway in
Matlock Bath's Derwent Gardens approximately three years after this advertisement was published.
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*From:
Bradbury, Edward (1884) "All about Derbyshire." With
sixty illustrations by W. H. J. Boot, J. S. Gresley, W. C. Keene, L. L.
Jewitt, G. Bailey, J. A. Warwick, R. Keene, and others. Simpkin Marshall,
London : Richard Keene, All Saints', Derby.
Image scan © Ann Andrews from her personal copy of the book.
Intended for personal use only.
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