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RIP Dora Bryan
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Vegas Seagull
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- Jul 10, 2009
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A real local legend, ran the seafront hotel for ever it seemed
twowheelsbest
Well-known member
Lovely Lady - I drove Volks Railway for one summer in 1998, and she would use it to "commute" from Peter Pans into town - always a pleasure to have aboard RIP Dora x
Daffy Duck
Stop bloody moaning!
She wasn't a lovely lady to me when I worked in Hanningtons as a young shop assistant.
She was a rude old cow and seemed to take pleasure in embarrassing me in front of other customers just because I was a youngster.
Asked for someone more senior because "they will know who I am".
She was a rude old cow and seemed to take pleasure in embarrassing me in front of other customers just because I was a youngster.
Asked for someone more senior because "they will know who I am".
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
The Argus said she owned CLARIDGES Hotel on Marine Parade , it has been pointed out it was actually CLARGES Hotel and they've corrected it now 
daveinprague
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She seemed genuinly nice. I met her coming home from Portsmouth when I was in the navy...when the trains used to have compartments. She saw my navy case, and started telling me about one of her relatives who was in the RN, and chatted all the way to Brighton...nice normal lady for a luvvy...rip..
Tricky Dicky
New member
She used to come to my school in Shoreham for all the events as her son was a pupil there. She was an awful singer.
Her son is a good friend of mine and the big problem with Dora has always been her drinking. When sober she's lovely, when pissed she could be a cantankerous old boot.
I worked in the newsagent that supplied her papers for Clarges in the 70's. A completely miserable bitch.
Insel affe
HellBilly
Daffy Duck
Stop bloody moaning!
I must have got her on a cantakerous old boot day!
Bill Cassidy's tie up
New member
Agree with most above, worked for her loads of times sometimes lovely others a right cow. Did she still live in the flat at Clarges? Haven't seen her around for ages.
A friend used to rent a flat from her years ago. A horrible land lady by all accounts. RIP though.
Joe Gatting's Dad
New member
My mum was in the same home until she died a while ago. So sad to also see Dora in a wheelchair making sense some days, but not others.
The Argus said she owned CLARIDGES Hotel on Marine Parade , it has been pointed out it was actually CLARGES Hotel and they've corrected it now
The Argus getting something wrong, no don't believe it
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
The Argus said she owned CLARIDGES Hotel on Marine Parade , it has been pointed out it was actually CLARGES Hotel and they've corrected it now
That's what happens when the article is collated by someone in an office in Southampton. Brighton may as well be on the moon as far as they are concerned. They have no knowledge of the town at all.
BUTTERBALL
East Stand Brighton Boyz
Clarges still bears the name outside but the hotel long gone. For a while in the 70's, she seemed to be Brighton's only real celeb and opened absolutely everything - fetes, fairs etc.
Man of Harveys
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How many fruity old dears like her are there dotted along the south coast, the kind who can get a bit snippy when they've had a couple too many Dubonnets? Bloody hundreds and they're marvelous. RIP to the old trouper.
The Sock of Poskett
The best is yet to come (spoiler alert)
- Jun 12, 2009
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Got her autograph after seeing her at Chichester Festival Theatre back in the 70s in some comedic piece also starring Peggy Mount and Richard Wattis.
RIP the old trouper
RIP the old trouper