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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ARE YOU ONE OF THESE EXCITED CHILDREN? As our final Mining Blog of the year we are taking a trip down memory lane to Christmas Parties of the 1950s , with a special call out to the mining folk of Hucknall and surrounding areas. Lots of names here, see if
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We recently published Roger West’s article about the 1937 South Normanton Colliery disaster. Roger is continuing his research and would like to contact any relatives of the men who sadly lost their lives, or of those involved in the rescue. If you would like to be put in touch
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Remembering the South Normanton Colliery disaster Roger West pays tribute to those lost at the mine in 1937 – and the brave men who risked their lives for others. We are handing over this week’s Remembrance Blog to Roger West who has kindly sent us this article previously published in the
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WE REMEMBER AND WILL NEVER FORGET A TRAGIC LOSS OF 80 LIVES – A VILLAGE IN DEEP MOURNING CRESWELL COLLIERY 26TH SEPTEMBER 1950 We are continuing our theme of Remembrance to take in the appalling loss of life that occurred at Creswell Colliery on the 26th September, 1950.
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Our final Remembrance Blog is a heart-breaking record of Nottinghamshire’s 20th Century mining disasters; where multiple deaths occurred. The underlined links will take you through to the Healey’s Heroes website where a detailed description of each disaster can be found. We are humbly grateful to this site and
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WE MUST REMEMBER ( 2) Continuing our theme of Remembrance, this is the story of – THE COURAGEOUS STAND OF SID PAGE SENT TO PRISON BECAUSE HE WANTED TO JOIN THE ROYAL NAVY* During the 2nd World War, in the period from July 1939 to July 1941, a
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