The Best Summer of Our Lives: A Photographic History of the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp Strathclyde and the lads they play

and the lads they play with"

Howard Vaughton and Arthur Brown

'Before The Camera'

It was a different post-war world with vastly differing standards

for a combined total of more than 70 years

The Best Summer of Our Lives: A Photographic History of the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp Strathclyde and the lads they playThe story of the Derbyshire Miners Holiday Camp at Skegness is the story of the thousands of mining families who holidayed there after the Second World War. There are also stories of the people who worked at the camp, many of them from mining families and some former miners themselves. It is also the story of the union men who fought in the 1920s and 1930s for a miners right to take an annual holiday with pay and who made the building of the camp