Matlock Bath Pavilion
MATLOCK BATH, DERBYSHIRE



The Pavilion at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire was once the grand setting of The Pump Room where day trippers came to take the waters and enjoy tea dances. The location is now home to a Mining Museum and Night Club and scene of reported ghostly apparitions and poltergeist activity. The building was built on the site of the stables of the Fishpond Hotel by German labourers and called the Kursaal. There are stories of one of the labourers falling to his death from the scaffolding. The Pavilion has had many uses including a roller skating rink and a billet for soldiers during the war. The building was also the pump room for the town and spring waters would be pumped up into the area that is now the mining museum.