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The Twinkling Horizon

The Community Corridor, Leeds City Museum

September 2025 - 4 January 2026

Visit Leeds City Museum Community Corridor to see and hear the amazing story of the Leeds Poor Children’s Holiday Camp in Silverdale on Morecambe Bay.

 

In 1904, the Lady Mayoress of Leeds, Helen Currer Briggs, paved the way to providing free holidays for thousands of young children whose family income was less than a single pound. 

 

The display showcases heart warming stories, pictures, objects and oral histories told by children, staff and fundraising volunteers from 1904 to 2016. 

The children saw the sea, walked on magical limestone pavement, Yew tree woods and experienced the twinkling horizon of Morecambe Bay.

In 2016 the camp sadly closed, changed its name to the Leeds Children’s Charity and moved to Lineham Farm in Eccup, where it continues to provide free holidays for the children of Leeds.

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