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Balloon ascent, Lancaster Park

Balloon ascent, Lancaster Park

Balloon ascent, Lancaster Park
[between Dec. 1910 and Jan. 1911]

The Beebe Balloon Company, formed by an American, put on several ballooning exhibitions at Lancaster Park in front of large crowds. Pictured is the pavilion and grandstand (later the no. 1 stand), built in 1880 at a cost of £1,530, and demolished in 1958

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File Reference CCL-KPCD06-0004

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