OSM FRIENDS OF PHYLLIS BAXTER
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All the pictures on this website belong to the late Phyllis Baxter's collection
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Phyllis Baxter was born in the Republic of Ireland on the 15th of February 1945 but her love for the unknown rapidly took her to many places around the world. After living in London for a while Phyllis and her husband Derek decided to move to the quiet town of Ottery St Mary. It didn't take them too long to get involved with the community, Derek through the Town Council and Phyllis as Manageress of the Tourist Information Office. For many years Phyllis delighted the residents of the town with the many pictures she took almost on the daily basis. Her love for photography and for the town is reflected in each one of the photos she took. Nobody has ever been able to look at Ottery the way she did through her lens. Her enthusiasm, her commitment to the town and to her job, her knowledge of every place and person in Ottery and her unconditional love for everything she did reflects on her pictures.
In 2017 OSM Town Council and the residents of Ottery recognised all the work Phyllis had done for the town by awarding her the Citizen of the Year Award
Phyllis passed away on the 22nd of September 2018
This is a non-party politics group formed mainly by town residents neither trading in a specific field, united by the memory of the “best Ambassador this town ever had” and the wish to preserve and continue her work.
Among the many things the group aims to achieve are:
1 - Stimulate Public Interest in the town by promoting it as a town of great quality and character.
2 - Promote the town, events and businesses -without distinction - of the service offered via the press, social media, radio and TV.
3 - Organise a plan of activities in collaboration with well established events that will attract people to the town, not once a year but throughout the year.
4 - To promote or assist in promoting activities of a charitable nature throughout the area of benefit.
5 - Create a welcome pack of information for new residents in collaboration with Estate Agencies in town and the information office
6 - Support local initiatives by visiting and welcoming new businesses in town and provide them with the necessary information that will help them promote their business and work in harmony with other traders
7 - Organise, following the tradition of previous years, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Ball in June 2022
8 - Secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic, environmental or public interest in this area by maintaining a record of those things considered as eyesores in town and write to the responsible authority in order to get it solved or fixed.
9 - Produce a range of publications designed to celebrate the heritage of the town and the surrounding countryside.
10 - To give advice and information through the OSM Information Centre
11 - To hold meetings, lectures and exhibitions aimed at supporting our traders and promoting Ottery.
12 - To do all such other things as are necessary for the attainment of the said purposes of the formation of this group.
If you would like more information regarding this group or are interested in joining us, please send us an email at: osmfriendsofphyllisbaxter@gmail.com
Alternatively look at the group's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/otterystmaryfriendsofphyllisbaxter
Recommended links: sites.google.com/site/otterystmaryphyllisbaxter/
www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/surprise-book-of-thanks-for-unique-phyllis-on-behalf-of-6118610
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