L2L Day 20 Brill to Buckingham

Hmmm!

I limped across the road for breakfast.

I sat next to a man with a pair of very docile Clumber spaniels - the type that apparently won Best in Show at Crufts this year.


It seemed that there aren't many buses a day from Brill to anywhere so I readied myself, checked-out and went looking for the bus stop.
On Church St. I met Tony who pointed out where to stand for the 111 but as he had a car-load of garden waste and was on his way to Aylesbury via the tip, would I like a lift?

Tony Burroughs owns and runs Aylesbury Music and in his spare time, has a PPL and sings a capella in the Brill based Morris Minors. 


Latest news is that Tony and his business have just been featured in a new documentary on BBC2 about the mystery of Paul McCartney's bass guitar which was stolen in the 1960s.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v46m

Without wishing to give a spoiler, it seems that a bloke in Brill's dad's ambulance driving partner!!!.....may have had some information which could have assisted the police with their enquiries!!! Tony is, of course, totally innocent of any involvement but the enterprising film crew saw the opportunity to use Aylesbury Music as a suitable backdrop for much of the filming.


Coincidences don't stop there....Tony's business partner plays in a band called The Dung Beatles!!!!

Tony is active in developing the public transport agenda and en route we had a great chat about schemes to improve transport options in rural communities.

After dropping me off close to the town centre, 



I spent 20 minutes daydreaming in Tony's shop - a real Aladdin's cave with hundreds of beautiful guitars, mandolins, clarinets and saxophones and a memory jogging collection of vinyl that I last enjoyed at college - King Crimson, Pete Frampton...I could have stayed for the rest of the morning.

On the way to the bus station, I called in to see the 1180 Aylesbury Font 


at St. Mary the Virgin church. Somewhere in its history, the font had been found in three pieces buried in debris during renovations.


The X6 bus took me to Buckingham where I sat in the sun to sketch the Old Gaol.


The gaol was built in 1748 after the 'Second Great Fire of Buckingham'. Until it was completed, Buckingham only had a temporary lock-up which was so insecure that the execution of a convicted murderer was ordered to be carried out immediately in case he was 'sprung' by his accomplices. The crenelations and arrow slits were added to make the building look more secure so that Buckingham could wrest the Summer County Assizes back from Aylesbury and reclaim the right to be the County Town.

Later in the afternoon, I had another chat with Richard the physio.

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