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[[Advertising Poster on pink paper]]

ROYAL NASSAU 
BALLOON
FROM VAUXHALL, LONDON

MONTPELIER GARDENS,
CHELTENHAM

[[Black and white image centre - balloon gondola with passengers]]

ON TUESDAY
23RD APRIL
DOORS OPEN AT ELEVEN
ASCENT AT ONE


THE PUBLIC IS RESPECTFULLY INFORMED THAT
MR. GREEN 
WILL MAKE AN ASCENT 
IN THE 
NASSAU
BALLOON,  
(Being his 269th,)
FROM THE 
MONTPELIER GARDENS.
CHELTENHAM 
On TUESDAY, 23d of APRIL.^[[1839 - handwritten in ink]]
The doors will be opened at Eleven O'Clock. the Ascent at One o'Clock.
ADMISSION, 2s. 6d.
 
Balne Brothers , Printers, Gracechurch Street. London


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BALLOON AND RAILWAY TRAVELLING. - ON Tuesday last, Mr Green, in company with Mr. Rush and Mr. Hughes, ascended in his large Nassau balloon, from Cheltenham, precisely at half-past three o'clock, and after a very pleasant though circuitous ride of 85 miles through the air, passing close over the park of the Duke of Wellington, aT Strathfieldsaye, they made a safe landing at a quarter past seven o'clock, on Haizley-heath, near Hartley-row, Hants. The aeronauts having been in "Clouds omnibus" three hours and a quarter. The gentleman in the management of the Winchfield and Hartley-row terminus of the London and Southampton railway, on perceiving the aerial voyagers descending near to his station, sent persons to inform Mr. Green that he would have engine power ready to convey him, his occupants, and balloon to London, which was accepted, and in one hour and ten minutes form the time starting from Winchfield, a distance of 38½ miles, the balloon and its previous occupants were safely landed at Vauxhall; the rate of travelling being by balloon, 22½ miles; by the railroad, 32½ miles, per hour. ^[[ap. 26 1839]]
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BALLOON TRAVELLINGng.-The Cheltenham Chronicle tells us that the scientific gentlemen who accompanied Mr. Green in the Nassau balloon are now trying an experiment preliminary to the establishment of a line of balloons between Cheltenham and London. so as to supersede (if possible) every other mode of travelling! ^[[april 27 1839]]
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