From memory for completists!
With a prompt start and just eight in the batch, a northern route
was chosen past the Young Person's Estate and Bedfont to arrive at Stanwell
Moor's garden centre well before ten. Here we were joined by Irene and Alan compensating
for the departing Paul. And early arrival meant an early departure which proved
fatal for the late arriving Neil.
Poyle and Colnbrook were all too familiar but after a
transit of the rapidly disappearing Hollow Hill Lane there was a surprise (at
least for this author). We turned west to enjoy Orchards Residential Park, and Slough’s
northern suburbs (Wexham, Manor Park and Britwell). The escape to the country
took us along Walton Lane and past the Burnham Recycling Centre. We then
circled Burnham Beeches going first west then north then east. The Royal Oak (a
pub only in name) was approached from the west down a footpath from Egypt Lane.
Over lunch we decided to forego tea and head for home in the
light. The revised route went past the One Pin pub (no longer extant but featured in Genevieve) and on to Pinewood Studios where three very
large sheds are appearing on green belt land. Tony left just after the
incinerator, and Vic and Irene in the middle of Colnbrook where Janice shown
off her pumping skills following a puncture. Only Ed stopped for a second time in
Vermeulen’s so here the story ends.
About 60 miles door to door.
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