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| All About Derbyshire by Edward Bradbury, 1884.* |
| Eighteenth and nineteenth century tour guides about Matlock Bath and Matlock |
Drabble & Co., Stone Merchants, full page advertisement from p.23. |
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 The Drabble family arrived in the Matlocks not long before the 1851 census and quickly established themselves as businessmen in the town, first as timber merchants and later as stone merchants. Their quarried stone was used for numerous major building projects throughout Britain. |
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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 Copyright Ann Andrews from her personal copy of the book. Intended for personal use only. |
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