Fire Works Gallery

Balloon event, Charles Green, Stowmarket

Charles Green ballooning poster, advertising his 413rd ascent, from the Vicarage Grounds, Stowmarket in his Royal Victoria Balloon. Also an Aerial Clown will ascend from the grounds, standing nearly 18 feet in height. With a band, excursion trains laid on from nearby locations, and fireworks.
6 July 1849

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans

Ballooning poster, Mr H Green

Poster advertising Mr H Green's second balloon ascent from the Great Northern Pleasure Grounds, Old St Pancras Road, near Kings Cross, London, his 233rd ascent in his Great Northern balloon. With a brass band and fireworks.
28 August 1854

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans

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Peace Illuminations in Pall Mall at end of Crimean War

Fireworks and illuminations cheered the populace on the cessation of hostilities in the Crimean War. In this engraving the Ordnance Office, Pall Mall, London is illuminated with images of the garter and the Queen's insignia, VR. Date: 1856

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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