A crowd posed in front of a partially-inflated balloon. Cecil Shadbolt is pictured standing third from the right, wearing a bowler hat

Date:
1882 - 1892
Location:
Greater London Authority
Reference:
CVS01/01/019
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)
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Description

Shadbolt is known to have launched his balloons from Lillie Bridge Park, Alexandra Palace and Crystal Palace, and this photograph is likely to have been taken at one of these sites. This slide was used in Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onwards'

Content

This is part of the Series: CVS01/01 Series of lantern slides; within the Collection: CVS01 Cecil Victor Shadbolt Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Creator of Archive: Shadbolt, Cecil Victor