Brighton Dome's own remarkable functional history, from grand royal stables and riding house to, during the First World War, a military hospital treating wounded soldiers, gives the building two entirely different eras of intense human activity from which its reported white lady might plausibly have emerged, a genuine institutional range spanning royal leisure and genuine wartime suffering within the same physical structure.
The white lady herself is reported specifically at night and during rehearsals, an interesting pairing of conditions that connects her sightings both to the building's quieter, unoccupied hours and to its continuing active use as a performance venue, suggesting she is drawn to, or at least most often noticed during, moments when the building's normal daytime crowds have thinned. No name or specific identity has been proposed for her in the sources consulted for this entry, leaving her within the familiar anonymous white lady archetype recorded at dozens of other sites throughout this wider register.
The building's genuine wartime service as a military hospital adds real historical weight to its wider reported phenomena, ghostly sounds and footsteps through the passageways, backstage areas and the tunnel shared with the Royal Pavilion, entirely plausible given the real suffering and, presumably, real deaths that would have occurred there while it served that grim purpose during the First World War, quite separate from whatever originally connected the Prince Regent's own grand stables to this considerably darker later chapter of the same building's history.
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