Observer newspaper magazine

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Catalogue number: L1/0005

Colour picture of magazine double page spread showing close up of gas balloon basket and occupants ascending behind the ropes of two gas balloons being inflated on the ground
Colour picture of a magazine centre spread showing  nine gas balloons inflated on the ground with three other smaller pictures of balloons being prepared for inflation
Colour picture of an orange gas balloon airborne taken from above with two smaller pictures showing pilot in a basket beneath an inflated gas balloon
Picture of colour magazine cover showing a gas balloon high above a farm surrounded by green fields.

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The weekend supplement magazine for The Observer newspaper June 13 1965.

39 pages profusely illustrated with colour and B/W pictures for a variety of stories and advertisements.

The cover story  - ‘The rarest sport in the world’ - describes the sport of gas ballooning and in particular a race held in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire where eight ‘hounds’ balloons followed the ninth ‘hare’ balloon and the winner was the balloon which landed nearest the ‘hare’ balloon.

Publication date: 13 June 1965
Donated by: Robin Batchelor
Image(s) credit: Robin Batchelor
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