This is our last blog about the Derbyshire Miners Convalescent and Holiday Home. REMEMBRANCE We are REMEMBERING and celebrating the pleasure that it brought to so many mining families! RESISTANCE We are REMEMBERING the actions of RESISTANCE that took
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This is the full history of the origins of the Derbyshire Miners Convalescent Home and Miners Holiday Camp and this text is taken from the Derbyshire County Council Records Office website. Follow this link for the article: CalmView: Overview 19th century beginnings – Derbyshire Miners Association involvement A convalescent
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For our Mining Blog this week we are sharing a wonderful account of a visit to Skeggy Miners Holiday Camp by Eric Eaton in the early 1950s. I spent a few holidays at Skegness Miners Holiday Camp, in my childhood with my family, Mam, Dad, brothers and
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“The Camp will provide accommodation for nearly 1,000 people and will enable families whose means have hitherto prevented it, to have a seaside holiday.” In 1939 the Sheffield Telelegraph advised its readers of an ‘exciting experiment’ taking place in Derbyshire, the creation of a Miners’ Holiday Camp at Skegness.
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