Balloons

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