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Drayton Manor Resort is a family theme park, zoo and accommodation in the grounds of the former Drayton Manor, in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, UK.It covers 180 acres (73 hectares), of which about 113 acres (46 hectares) are in use, and hosts about 1.5 million people each year [citation needed].
Colin Bryan took the reins of the then Drayton Manor Theme Park in 1973, with his brother Andrew and sister Jane taking on respective roles in the company, and his mother Vera Bryan retaining a prominent position.
George Bryan bought the 80-acre site near Tamworth, Staffordshire for £12,000 in 1949 and opened Drayton Manor Theme Park the year after. [2] 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.
Vera Florence Alice Bryan (9 June 1917 – 16 October 2013) [1] was a British businessperson who was the co-founder and a director of the then Drayton Manor Theme Park. She co-founded the company with her husband George, in 1949.
Gold Rush is a steel family roller coaster located at Drayton Manor Resort in Staffordshire, England, UK.The coaster opened as a part of a strategic multimillion-pound investment and the new Frontier Falls area, and features two different layout sequences in which the ride switches track routes.
Drayton Manor, one of Britain's lost houses, was a British stately home at Drayton Bassett, since its formation in the District of Lichfield, Staffordshire, ...
G Force was a roller coaster at Drayton Manor Resort, Tamworth, England.It was the only X-Car coaster in the UK and was opened by the band G4 in 2005. The ride was also the third X-Car coaster to be built in the world, the first being the prototype Sky Wheel at Skyline Park in Germany and the second being X Coaster at Magic Springs.
Ahmed is the son of an English mother from Rotherham and a Sudanese father who was a research scientist in ophthalmology. [4] He grew up in Ealing. From 1980 to 1986, Ahmed was educated at Drayton Manor High School, [5] a state comprehensive school in Hanwell in the London Borough of Ealing in West London, followed by the University of Leeds, from which he graduated in 1990 with a degree in ...