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Happy Valentine’s Day – Love is in the Air! Just to remind you it’s also a Leap Year and although...

On 3 February, 1902, Robert F. Scott’s British National Antarctic Expedition was on its way back to McMurdo Sound in...

Happy #NationalPuzzleDay. Here’s a tiny selection of the many jigsaw puzzles we have in our collection. An interesting fact: John...

Since the announcement back in November we now have more information for you : The all – important registration form...

The December Trailrope is out now and is a bumper issue of 20 pages full of interesting history. Editor Jenni...

Ryan O’Neal has died and not one media story mentions his role in the feature film ‘Green Ice’ . Our...

Terry Adams was a long-term friend of the BBM&L and this morning breathed his last after a spell in a...

The Dante balloon group can proudly call themselves ‘the oldest balloon group still active’. It was formed on 5 December...

All over the world, 21st November is the day balloonists celebrate the anniversary of the first free flight with human...

It was on this day 16 November 1959 that American balloonist Joe Kittinger made the first high altitude jump. As...

The weekend of October 8/9 saw a veritable feast of ballooning in Britain starting with the launch of...