Balloon Collection (page 9)

Joy Bells by Albert de Courville
Promotional postcard for Joy Bells revue by Albert de Courville, Wal Pink and Thomas J. Gray; music Frederick Chappelle. First produced at the London Hippodrome, 25th March 1919. Artist: E. P

A Kite Balloon car over the Western Front, WW1
Two observers in the basket of a kite balloon pictured spotting activity on the ground below. The Kite Balloon section (often known as the balloonatics)

Powdering Pierrot by Baird - 1920s
Stylised illustration showing a woman in a fancy dress style costume, surrounded by balloons, powdering the face of her Pierrot doll

Japanese sailors practicing balloon jumping
Japanese sailers practicing balloon jumping at a naval air force station in Kasumigaura. Date: 1932

Cartoon, The Great Balloon, by James Gillray. A satirical comment on the subject of Lord Grenvilles installation as Chancellor of Oxford University

Cartoon, Siege de la Colonne de Pompee [Pompeys Pillar, a Roman triumphal column], Science in the Pillory, by James Gillray

The Old Order Changeth
" Flight-Sergeant, in future when we go up, just give the order Let Go, instead of Let go the guys, " Date: 1918

Costume designs, Weldons Beautiful Needlework
Costume designs and patterns for girls, a page in Weldons Beautiful Needlework magazine. Date: circa 1920s

Kite Balloon Observers under fire
Victors by telephone: Our kite-balloon observers under fire. Two kite balloon observers on the Western Front relay information by telephone to the British batteries below about the position of enemy

WW1 - Close encounter between aeroplane and balloon
WW1 - A depiction of a close aeronautic encounter between a aeroplane and balloon hidden from each other in the cloudy sky

WW1 - German airmen in combat
WW1 - A drawing from a German artist for a German newspaper who witnessed the airmen in a battle royal in mid-air. The two German officers in a biplane attack the French captive balloon shown below

Two toddlers under the mistletoe at a Christmas party -- a little boy kisses a little girl on the cheek. Date: circa 1960s

Kirsch, Georges fighter pilot and Balloon buster in Nieuport Delage 29 20 Gordon Bennett

German Type AE observation balloon, copied from a French model, which was used extensively from early summer 1916 onwards. It was capable of day and night operation

Descent by parachute of Jacques Garnerin from a balloon.. Experimental descent by parachute from a balloon by the Jacques Garnerin, October 1797

Madame Sage and George Biggin during the balloon flight in 1785.. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi, the Italian daredevil aeronaut

Descent of Jean-Pierre Blanchards hydrogen balloon, 1784.. Descent of Jean-Pierre Blanchards hydrogen balloon, 2 March 1784, near Paris. Balloon with parachute and flapping wings

First manned hydrogen balloon flight.. First manned hydrogen balloon flight of two hours and five minutes by Nicolas-Louis Robert and Professor Jacques Charles

Descent of Jean-Pierre Blanchards balloon.. Descent of Jean-Pierre Blanchards balloon at Billancourt, 2 March 1784. Blanchard added flapping wings to his balloon in an attempt to drive it

Balloons taking off near Newquay, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Hot Air Balloon, England. Showing Edwardian Balloonists in the Basket with a Dog Date: 1900s

World War One Hot Air Balloon - Royal Garrison Artillery, Lydd, Romney Marsh, Kent, England. Used for observing the effects of shell fire Date: 1915

WW1 Hot Air Balloon Dirigible
World War 1 Hot Air Balloon Dirigible, England. Date: 1910s

WW1 Airship - Balloon
World War 1 Airship/Balloon, England. Date: 1910s

WW2 Christmas card, Balloon Barrage, Coventry
WW2 Christmas card, The Balloon Barrage, Coventry. Date: 1940

WW2 Christmas card, Balloon Barrage
WW2 Christmas card, 908 Squadron RAF, Balloon Barrage (based in Essex). Date: 1939

WW2 greetings card, Safety First, showing a sleeping bear with a barrage balloon on a piece of string. Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card, barrage balloon with a delivery of food and drink. Date: circa 1942

Glaisher and Coxwell scientific balloon ascent, 1862
Balloon ascent by James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell in 1862 to make scientific meteorological observations. Date: 1862

Aerial voyages - Fonville in L Entreprenant, 1868
Aerial voyages - mountain ranges of clouds beheld from the balloon L Entreprenant, piloted by M W de Fonville on his second ascent on 22nd March 1868 from La Villette, near Paris. Date: 1868

Glaisher and Coxwell balloon ascent 1862
Balloon ascent by James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell in June 1862 to conduct meteorological observations. Here the balloon is above the clouds. Date: 1862

BLANCHARD, Jean-Pierre (1753 - 1809). French inventor, most remembered as a pioneer in aviation and ballooning. Blanchard in front of the Militar School. 02/03/1784. Engraving. FRANCE

The Zeppalloon by William Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
An ingenious adjustment. Whereby a captive balloon can, at a moments notice, be converted so as to appear like a Zeppelin

From the Balloon Observers Training Manual, WW1 cartoon
" All apparently natural features should be considered in relation to the general nature of the landscape, as the appearance of a hedge or even a solitary tree may be the cause of the discovery

Letting loose balloons from the Eiffel Tower
A small girl in the arms of her father, lets loose a small balloon with a postcard attached from the third platform of the newly completed Eiffel Tower

People at a crowded regatta on the River Thames
People at a crowded regatta, probably at Henley on the River Thames. Date: 20th century

Paris, France - Boulevard des Capucines. Date: circa 1900

Children at Christmas party, Lambeth, London
Children enjoying themselves at a Christmas party at the London Fire Brigades Lambeth fire station (D61), 27 December 1957. Date: 1957

Training Royal Flying Corps officers in a balloon, WW1
A school in the sky over London town - how officers are trained in the Royal Flying Corps. Balloons flying over the capital

Observation Balloon watching the effects of Shell fire. Somewhere in France. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Observation balloon. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

British observation balloon being launched, Arras, WW1
A British observation balloon being launched at Arras, France, 5 September 1915, by Louis Dauphin (1885-1926). Date: 1915

Cartoon, A Busmans Holiday, WW1
WW1 cartoon, A Busmans Holiday, by Lawson Wood (1878-1957). He served In France for nearly three years as an officer in the Kite Balloon Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, and at GHQ. Date: 1914-1918

Locomotive balloon in Vauxhall Gardens
The locomotive balloon designed by a Mr Bell, a forerunner of the 20th century Zeppelin, which made several ascents at the famous Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in the 1850s

Officers of the Kite Balloon Section by Lieutenant G. Machin
The Up-in-a-Balloon Boys, A Collection from Somewhere in France. Officers of the nth Kite Balloon Section drawn by Lieutenant G. Machin of the R.A.F

British balloon observer on the Western Front
The observer stands with telephone receiver over his head; a mouthpiece hangs in front of him. Date: 1916

Rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath
A rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath.There are four balloons (two at each end), a sail to propel it vehicle and a rudder to steer it. From: Collegium experimentale, sive, curiosum

Brtish observation balloon 1917
The first coming of light, early in the morning of Battle of Broodseinde during the First World War, as the " eye" of the artillery is finished its preliminary intensified firing

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