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Happy St Valentine’s Day

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...

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...