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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 23:59:16 +0000, Chris Wilkinson
<chris@scout.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Coming to London, then you might be expecting to stay in Baden-Powell
>House but you will find it closed from 4th November 1996 to 16th March
>1977 for major refurbishment.

I feel a tremendous onslaught of 'told you they were living in the
past..' after this gaff :-)))     1977! It's a backward step, then..


>In 1942
<<Historical snip>>
>... 35 years later the time has
>come to update those facilities to equal or better than those required
>by todays visitors.
>
>The cost of this will be in the region of 2million pounds most of this
>will come from the Baden Powell Memorial Fund.  The major features in
>this developemnt will be to increase the bed capacity from 115 to 180
>and for all the rooms including the conference facilities to have air
>condition.  
This is not a dig, but a genuine request for info-
Can someone give us all an example of the type of conferences that are
held. Are the facilities 'rented out' to other organisations.

Thanks
Gary
North Wilts. District Secretary