Date:1920 - 1930 (c.)
Description:The Copeland family owned the Kibblestone estate from the mid-nineteenth century. Ronal Copeland started the first Scout Troop in Stone in 1910. In 1921 he became the County Scout Commissioner for North Staffordshire. Realising the need for a permanent Scout camp, Copeland, who no longer lived in Kibblestone Hall, gave two acres of the estate known as Beech Field as a memorial to his father. In 1927 this became the site of the first Scout camp at Kibblestone. The site developed over time to include a training ground, swimming pool and open air chapel. Kibblestone Hall was demolished in 1954, and the camp became the property of the City of Stoke-on-Trent Scout Movement in 1960.
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The Copeland family owned the Kibblestone estate from the mid-nineteenth century. Ronal Copeland started ...
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Image courtesy of: Stone Historical and Civic Society
Donor ref:Stone Hist. and Civic Soc. No., PT00324, img: 2563 (18/2941)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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