Kibblestone Camp

Going on a little from Wednesday's post and in some respects a hold over from July 3rds The Great Outdoors together post talking a little with my father brought out the fact he'd been to Kibbestone (International) Scout Camp which is near Stone here in North Staffordshire which was less than ten miles from where he lived with his parents and we're only just on the edge of the City Region so Cubs and Scouts in the Potteries North Scout District such as our villages go there.

When he went facilities were primitive which was accepted then not least for children living under wartime conditions just a matter of years before but it wasn't long before funds were raised to improve them. 

That was the front of the grand opening program showing the Cub Lair set in the woods which has been added to over the years.

In his day there were Wolf Cubs and these are wolf cubs just before they were replaced in early 1967 of the 114th Trentham Scout Group which is just on the south of the city near the famous Gardens and not very far from camp.

He loved Cubs and Scouts and even roughing it as he'd put in those days just for the pleasures of being out of thick smoke of where he lived in the days before the Clean Air Act that belched from the pottery works and peoples fires all from locally produced coal, having fun with other boys while learning stuff for life.