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This year the BBM&L are having two days instead of one.
The event will be held in the beautiful grounds of Boughton House, near Kettering in Northamptonshire.
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.
The British Balloon Museum & Library were invited to create and install a permanent Museum exhibit to mark the occasion.
Anne Lewis-Smith, who passed away at home on May 11th aged 86, was an inspiration to and loved by so many. She was most widely known for her prolific poetry, prose writing and journalism, as well as being a leading figure in the ballooning world and passionate about the British Balloon Museum & Library.
Photograph by RQ Barrett