My Notes

Matlock

Web site 1 takes you to part of this site

http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/matlock/index.htm

A huge site with lots of information.

I have found these sections useful.

On this page

• Good definitions of a spa and hydropathy

• Click on the link 'Some of the treatments available'

• You can find out how many hydropathic establishments there were in 1891.

• This might mention someone you have already found out about. Click on the 'Famous 19th Century People Who Wrote About or Visited Matlock Bath' . Did he visit or write about it I wonder?
  
• John Smedley was a very important part of the introduction of hydropathy to Matlock. Under 'Hydros and Hydropathy' you can find lots of information about him. Read the first three paragraphs and the extract from Kelly's directory.

N.B. Look at the advert again. It took me a long time to realise that the description under the advert for Matlock House was about Smedley's Establishment not Matlock House.

• John Smedley again. Paragraphs 2-5 on this site gives good information about him, especially how he became interested in hydropathy.