Mike and Debbie Scholes land early on Atlantic flight.
British Transatlantic Balloon couple, Mike and Deborah Scholes, have now safely retrieved their balloon, G-Z0Z0 from its remote landing site...
ANNOUNCEMENT
We are delighted to announce that the National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded the British Balloon Museum & Library a...
Transatlantic Balloon Crossings
The first successful Transatlantic balloon flight was in 1978. There have been another 11 flights since then. The list does...
World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day we were sent a picture of our President’s favourite balloon books with pictorial covers from...
FIRST ENGLISH WOMAN TO FLY SOLO
ABNEY PARK TRUST AND BIOGRAPHER SHARON WRIGHT JOIN FORCES TO HONOUR 19TH-CENTURY BALLOONIST MARGARET GRAHAM – THE FIRST ENGLISH WOMAN...
Inflation Day Video 2022
Well we finally got the 16th BBM&L Inflation Day event completed – the previous days forecast was so frustrating and...
Inflation Day – 23 April 2022.
We are delighted that David Hopkins has kept to his promise that the event can be held on his...
Renee Thornton, 1931-2020
Vice President of the British Balloon Museum & Library. We were saddened to hear that Renee had died in her...
Don Piccard. 1926 – 2020.
The sad news has reached us of the death of Don Piccard aged 95. He was our Vice President from...
The *virtual* Inflation Day 2020
The balloons pictured below all registered to attend the Inflation Day and we take our hats off to all the...
