Balloons

Tableaux Pyrotechniques, or Picture-Models at Vauxhall Gardens

John Mackay’s birthday visit to Vauxhall Gardens on 31 July 1837

‘Balloonomania’ and England’s first lady of flight

The 1836 ‘Royal Vauxhall Balloon’ ascent that set an eight-decade world distance record for manned flight

Robert Cocking: rise and fatal fall of a pioneer parachutist

Charles Green (1785-1870)

Balloons