These postcards show Matlock Floods in 1931 and in 1907.
Matlock Green
Matlock Green shopkeepers and children survey the water.
The shops ar
e R Wall tobacconist and confectioner and M Taylor Greengrocers.
Both shops have adverts for Lyons tea and the greengrocer offers Fyffes bananas.
Look closely and you can see children hanging out of the upstairs window, as interested in the photographer as they are in the floods.
Impression of the flood water in Crown Square
This postcard shows an impression of how the water levels looked in Crown Square after the 1931 flood.
The Burgons Provision Merchants in the foreground is now the Derbyshire Building Society and in the distance is the old Ritz cinema.
Flooded houses
Residents in their flooded houses look in disbelief at the water.
Traders clean up the flood debris. To the left of the postcard is Joseph Allen and Sons garage.
In the 1920's Joseph Allen and Sons had taken over Furniss's Crown Square premises and motorise hearses and mourning cars were available for hire.
The shop in the centre is Carnell, advertised as Matlock's original pie shop.
It sells high class confectionary and is a home made cake shop as well.
The windows are smashed by the force of the flood waters.
Another elderly man leads his horse and cart through the water on Causeway Lane during the 1907 floods.
Behind them is W H Marriott Auctioneer and Valuer.
A horse and cart carried people through the water in front of the Burgons Provision Merchants
This flood is in 1907. To the left is Wrigleys restaurent and Adams Saddler.
To the right is H Roberts printer and William Furness coach anad carriage providers.
Flooding is not consigned to the past however. June 2007 saw some of the worst weather on record.
Roads were blocked, rivers rose and businesses were affected as the water levels crept higher and higher.
Matlock floods 2007
Stretches of the A6 near to Homesford Cottage and Greenaway Lane in Darley Dale were said to be among the worst areas for collected water, while some reported that parts of Rowsley were "impassable" to anything without four wheel drive.
Ashover saw 8.24 inches of rain fall between June 12 and 25, the average being around 1.25 inches. More than 2.7 inches fell on Monday alone.
Trees fell in the road near to Masson Mill and Homesford Cottage, on the Via Gellia and in Hackney, Bakewell, Baslow and Youlgrave.
The river through Hall Leys Park, Matlock, burst its banks early on Tuesday morning, and the footbridge across the Derwent was closed.
The A6 in Matlock Bath was closed, as was Station Road in Tansley.
At one point so many routes were closed highways officers ran out of warning signs.
Traffic is held up by the 2007 floods.
Shop keepers tackle the floods
Shop keepers in Bakewell tackle the most recent floods in 2007.
