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. . . brought fresh encouragement and inspiration to the Guiders she met. On her first visit she presented Foxlease with a small brass clock with date "23rd July 1923".
Guiders arrive by charabanc
For twenty-one years the property (the house, the cottages and the sixty-five acres of grounds) had been held by four Trustees - Mr. Montague Piesse and Mr. F. E. Powell appointed by Mrs. Archbold, Sir Robert Baden-Powell (as he then was) and Sir Percy Everett appointed by the Association. If during that time the Guide Movement was not able to make full use of Foxlease, the Trustees had power to hold the property in trust for Mrs. Archbold or her heirs. However, the numbers who came during the first twenty-one years proved beyond all doubt that Foxlease was needed, used and loved by all who went there.
So in 1942, Foxlease became fully the property of the Association.
