HAVING read your article about Dubarry brought to mind what my mother told us as children.

She worked and looked after an old Italian gentleman who lived on Hove seafront. I know what you are thinking – what’s this to do with Dubarry’s.

One day he was talking to her and during the conversation Dubarry’s was mentioned.

He told her when he was travelling for a London perfumery one of his customers was a Mr Pears who had a chemist shop in Western Road, Hove.

He then went on to tell her he tried to persuade Mr Pears to go into making perfumery and we understood he gave him quite a lot of advice about the industry.

For your information, Dubarry’s was up and running in the early 1920s because my mother and aunt both worked there then.

A lot of local people for years referred to it as the Pill Factory.

HG Martin Ditchling Road, Brighton