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On This Day...
17 May 1956
Source: Swed Forest Res Inst. Aerospace Balloons ]
The British Balloon Museum and Library is the official museum of the British Balloon and Airship Club. It was formed in 1979 by a small group of balloonists, with the objective of preserving the many different items associated with and used in hot air and gas ballooning. The museum is run entirely by volunteers - not all balloonists - and is funded by private and corporate donations and annual subscriptions of the "Friends".
Events
British Balloon Museum & Library 2012 AGM and Luncheon
News
The British Balloon Museum & Library are hoping to inflate many of their collection of old balloons at Inflation Day on May 19th.
The BBM&L hold an Inflation Day every two years, it is always one of the most colourful events of any museum. A museum that displays its collections for one day every seven hundred days is unusual, but has to be seen to be believed. Special shapes, unusual logos and balloons which have broken records or flown in big films. A photographer's dream.
The British Balloon Museum & Library (BBM&L) hold an Inflation Day every two years to inflate balloons from their collection.
The event is at Lakeside Lodge, Pidley.
Scroll down for the forms to register your balloon for this event
As usual the last Sunday of October (the day you get an extra hour in bed) was the BBM&L AGM and Annual Luncheon at the Elcot Hotel near Newbury (where the Icicle trade show takes place).
Once again it was a very successful event, not only a very sociable one but financially beneficial for the Museum - all due to the generosity of the Friends of the Museum and appreciation to Jenni for setting it all up.
We had the usual raffle and auction of donated items, plus an 'auction of promises' which turned out to be very successful. Amongst the many 'promises', was a gas balloon flight to take place from Germany (donated by Colin Butter) successfully bid for by Terry Adams over from South Africa!
The British Balloon Museum & Library have just released their 2012 Calendar.
The designer searched the Museum's extensive archives, and each picture he chose our skilled Archivist was able to tell a story about it.
This ballooning calendar is not just a place to write notes and birthdays, but almost like a small history book of ballooning, both gas and hot air, right up to the nearly modern day.
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