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Alan Tilbury looks back
By: Michael Downes
Added: 18 January 2012
Not everyone knows that Fairlynch Museum is a member of Budleigh Salterton's Chamber of Commerce. In spite of being a charity the Museum shares many of the Chamber's interests. It has a shop, it depends for its income on attracting visitors to the town and it even shares a President in the person of Fairlynch co-founder Priscilla Hull.
Alan Tilbury retired recently as Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce. His wife, born in Budleigh, is a volunteer steward at Fairlynch and he has always had a soft spot for one of the town's best-known landmarks. Both are Friends of the Museum.
Here he looks back on a career in retail which gave him over more than half a century an intimate knowledge of the town's commercial life.
To read more click on http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.com/2012/01/alan-tilbury-looks-back.html
Pictured above: Alan Tilbury outside the building where he started work in Budleigh Salterton
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Fairlynch occupies an imposing position on a bank overlooking the junction of Fore Street and Marine Parade. It is one of the very few thatched museums in the UK. The building......
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