Plan of Proposed Swimming Pool at Derbyshire Miners' Welfare 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 and the building was sold in 2019 to a local business owner.

This plan shows the later addition of a swimming pool to the site during the mid 1950s. It was designed by Unit Swimming Pools Limited of Wolverhampton, who were an award winning pool designing company.