George Herbert Hamilton Bryan OBE (9 April 1921 – 20 September 2013)[1] was a British businessman who was the managing director of the then Drayton Manor Theme Park.
Mr Bryan was determined to establish a business of his own, and set about purchasing land with his wife Vera, to form their own attraction.
[1] George Bryan bought the 80-acre site near Tamworth, Staffordshire for £12,000 in 1949 and opened Drayton Manor Theme Park the year after.
When the theme park opened in 1950, it had one restaurant, a tea room, three hand-operated rides, and a set of second hand dodgem cars.
When they married in December that year, during one of George's vacation leaves, they served up tinned ham and potatoes to their wedding guests and enjoyed a three-night honeymoon at the Bonnington Hotel in London, the highlight of which was a trip to the cinema to see James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy.