The Best Summer of Our Lives: A Photographic History of the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp Strathclyde Howard Vaughton and Arthur Brown

Howard Vaughton and Arthur Brown

'Before The Camera'

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

competition

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

The Best Summer of Our Lives: A Photographic History of the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp Strathclyde Howard Vaughton and Arthur BrownThe 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