Map of area surrounding Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Centre in Skegness

The Derbyshire Miners' Welfare Holiday Centre in Skegness was built with financial grants from the Miners' Welfare Fund and colliery owners. Upon its opening in May 1939, it was the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, described The holiday centre could accommodate almost 1,000 visitors per week in wooden chalets, and was available to approximately 40,000 miners, and their families, who worked in Derbyshire collieries. There was accommodation, meals and entertainment on offer to those staying there. However, as the mining industry declined, so did the holiday centre. It closed in the 1990s. The convalescent home next door for injured miners stayed open but finally closed when the building was sold in 2019 to a local business owner.

This plan shows the area around the Holiday Centre and the associated Derbyshire Miners Convalescent Home next to it, which had been built in the late nineteenth century. Notice the Nottinghamshire Convalescent Home at the top of the map. This was built at a similar time to the Derbyshire Miners Convalescent Home but was for all types of people who needed convalescing and didn't specifically target miners as the Derbyshire Home did.