The Session Circle, Kibblestone, Stone

Description:A postcard view of the Session Circle at Kibblestone Scout Camp.

The Copeland family owned the Kibblestone estate from the mid-nineteenth century. Ronald 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 Copeland Cabin was built in 1931 and 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 and Newcastle Boy Scout Association in 1960. This Charity became Kibblestone District Scout Council in 2015.