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Happy Christmas

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

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...

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

British Transatlantic Balloon couple, Mike and Deborah Scholes, have now safely retrieved their balloon, G-Z0Z0 from its remote landing site...

We are delighted to announce that the National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded the British Balloon Museum & Library a...

To celebrate World Book Day we were sent a picture of our President’s favourite balloon books with pictorial covers from...

ABNEY PARK TRUST AND BIOGRAPHER SHARON WRIGHT JOIN FORCES TO HONOUR 19TH-CENTURY BALLOONIST MARGARET GRAHAM – THE FIRST ENGLISH WOMAN...

Well we finally got the 16th BBM&L Inflation Day event completed – the previous days forecast was so frustrating and...

We are delighted that David Hopkins has kept to his promise that the event can be held on his...