The Best Summer of Our Lives: A Photographic History of the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp Strathclyde 'Before The Camera'

'Before The Camera'

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

Was there an early barber at Boldshaves

it was his work on two nights in particular – separated by over twenty years – that would in the end define his body of work

The Best Summer of Our Lives: A Photographic History of the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp Strathclyde 'Before The Camera'The 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