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Scouts founder's table remains intact 80 years later

Founder of the Scout Movement, Lord Baden Powell bids farewell to young scouts at Cape Town, South Africa in 1936 [Courtesy]

The wooden breakfast table and four chairs have been unmoved for the last 80 years, waiting for a master who will never come.

The last time the owner sat at his favourite spot sipping coffee was in January 1941 as he lavished the bewitching beauty extending to the snowy peaks. Lord Baden Powell was facing Mt Kenya as he had always done for 14 years whenever the weather allowed.

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