John Smedley and Smedley's Hydro, Matlock blue plaque — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: John Smedley 1803-1874 textile entrepreneur and champion of hydrotherapy. This building was his principal hydropathic hotel established 1853 Recorded plaque organisation: Derbyshire County Council.

John Smedley was a prominent 19th-century British textile manufacturer who also significantly promoted the practice of hydrotherapy in England, establishing Smedley's Hydro in Matlock as one of the era’s leading health resorts.

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