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Lord’s castle of love and hate

Some 60 years on after its construction, Lord Egerton’s castle still looks ominous in its strength, writes GARDY CHACHA

Some 14 kilometres from Nakuru town (on the Nakuru-Eldoret highway) amidst thicket of shrubs and tall equatorial canopy trees, lies a mansion, magnificent as well as fascinating in its architecture. This is the Lord Egerton’s castle. It was constructed in 1952, coming through a cold reality that the purpose for which it was built had fizzled out.

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