George Bryan worked alongside his father, William Bryan, a decorated First World War pilot, to help reestablish his amusement park, after it had been closed down for the war. His father was one of the country"s biggest inventors and manufacturers of mechanical coin-operated amusement machines.
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These included "Nudist Colony" (or the "Live Peep Show"). Drayton Manor Theme Park
George Bryan bought the 80 acre site near Tamworth, Staffordshire for £12,000 in 1949 and opened Drayton Manor Theme Park the year after. The site was the residue of the former ancestral estate of the Victorian prime minister Sir Robert Peel.
Peel and his family were declared bankrupt in 1911, with most of the house pulled down soon after.
During the Second World War the estate was used as a storage depot by the Army, which left behind a sea of brambles and mounds of rubbish. 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.
