'The balloon over Helsbye Hill in Cheshire' Pugh 16th October 1970

16th October 1970

West Ham United Players Overseas visit to Israel

View of Salters' Almshouses in Monkwell Street

together with the rest of the Russian imperial family

by Waddington

'The balloon over Helsbye Hill in Cheshire' Pugh 16th October 1970Landscape showing the steep cliffs of Helsby Hill and the Mersey Estuary with the balloon piloted by Thomas Baldwin visible in a break between two clouds at the top of the image. Plate 2 from Airopaidia: containing the narrative of a balloon excusion from Chester by Thomas Baldwin (J. Fletcher, Chester, 1786). Inscribed above: 'To face page 78 of Airopaidia'. Inscribed below: 'R. Newton. T. Baldwin Arm. design et pinx. Stothard delin. Sharp sculps.