Alan Tilbury looks back
Alan Tilbury wearing his chain of office as Chairman of Budleigh Salterton's Chamber of Commerce Photo credit Ray Ambrose www.randacreative.com 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. Originally a Londoner he feels sufficiently naturalised in our ...