On Sunday 10 April 2016, some four years after his death, the club dedicated the weekly walk to the memory of Phil Evans who in his lifetime gave many years of dedicated service to the club as a frequent ramble leader, committee member and a very sociable member of the club. For this walk, which was along a route often followed by Phil, John Burbage did the honours of acting as leader. He was joined by 17 ramblers and a further four joined us for lunch at the Pink and Lily pub near Princes Risborough. Lunch was kindly provided at the expense of Phil's family as a special way of remembering him.

The walk was announced in the Spring Programme as follows:

Sunday 10th April        Leader: John Burbage    OS map 165   

Phil Evans Memorial Walk 

Meet:Marylebone Station 09.20 for the 09.43 train to Princes Risborough (arr. 10.25).  

Lunch:The Pink and Lily, Parslows Hillock. This pub was used on

Phil’s  40th anniversary walk in 2010. Medium to high price but will be

subsidised by the kindness of  Phil’s family in his honour.  Full menu

available including roast lunches, baguettes etc. Please read the

important note below 

Tea:Unlikely 

Distance:9 - 10 ½ miles. 6 hilly miles in the morning with some difficult

conditions underfoot possible. Stunning views and pleasant spring

forest walking follows much of the route taken by Phil. The afternoon

is generally downhill with the option to increase the walk by 1½ miles

by taking the Chiltern Trail to the station.  

Fare Guide:£13.45 day CDR Princes Risborough with NSE discount. (£9.50 from Zone 6).  

To join later take the no. 300 bus from Princes Risborough at 28 minutes past the hour from the Wycombe Road stop (across the road from Poppy Road) to Loosely Row (The Whip Inn stop). The pub is a one mile walk along Pink Road beside the stop. Allow 15 minutes to walk from the station to bus stop, following Station Road to access Poppy Road on the right after the bend. The 13 past the hour departures from Marylebone should give you around 20 minutes to get from Princes Risborough Station to the bus stop. 

Important Note: As the pub is likely to be very busy and we have been asked to provide numbers in advance together with an idea of your chosen main course, if you are intending to come, please e-mail or telephone the leader by the 4th of April. The pub menu is on the internet and Sundays include a selection of roasts (beef, pork, lamb and chicken). John’s contact details are on the back of the programme. 

Among the 17 who started the walk were some camera-handling members including our current most prolific photographer, Antoinette, and another quite frequent provider of ramble photographs, Roger plus a few frpm Robert Slater and one I took myself

Robert was first off the mark in providing the first two photographs shown below and then some of Antoinette's follow. I will try to insert any photographs I receive later as near as possible to ones that Robert and Antoinette took around tthe same time.