Kelso Chronicle – Further Young Men’s Christian Association facility at Stobs Camp

17 November 1916

Another recreation hut which has been provided at Stobs Camp by the YMCA, for the use of the members of the guard in charge of prisoners of war, was formally opened yesterday afternoon. The hut has been built on a site near the river Slitrig, South of Stobs Castle and is built of wood with a corrugated iron roof at a cost of about £600. It is 66 feet long by 30 feet wide and contains a recreation and lecture hall with a platform at one end, and a service counter at the other, kitchen, office, stores, bathroom and sleeping cubicles, the latter heated by a hot water installation and the hall by open fires, Mr James McKenzie, general secretary, who presided said that since the outbreak of war they had expended £900,000 on huts at home and abroad, Lord Polwarth formally opened the Hut said the “British Army was the most wonderful Army of modern times”. “The British Army was a marvellous creation and next to it was the YMCA”. Major Taylor of the RDC returned the thanks.