The Merseyside Children’s Holiday Camp was founded in 1909 by Mr Arthur H. Lee.

The main objective of the camp was to provide holidays for poorer children from Birkenhead and district.
The first arrivals at the new camp were 100 boys from Merseyside who came there on Friday 9th July 1909.

For 75 years the wooden huts of the camp provided holidays for children, until the camp was closed in 1984.

The site is now occupied by Graig Park Hotel & Country Club.

The top photo is from around 1920. The bottom photo is from 1986. Both from the Harry Thomas Collection.

For more photos of the camp see the Merseyside Holiday Camp section in the Gallery of Old Photographs