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[[Advertising Poster]]

ROYAL
Liverpool Festival
BALLOON, 
Under the Patronage of the Worshipful the Mayor
and Festival Committee.

[[Black and white image - hot air balloon in flight with two passengers. Banner across the balloon reads CORONATION BALLOON and the basket has the letters G R on it.]]

MR. C. GREEN,
Who had (by order of Government) the honour to make his first Ascent at his Majesty's Coronation, respectfully announces to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public, that he purposes making his
85th Aerial Voyage
from the
COURT at the AREA
of the
WORKHOUSE
On Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1827,
At Four o'Clock in the Afternoon.
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Tickets of Admission 2s. 6d. each, to be had at the Newspaper Offices, and principal Booksellers.
This splendid BALLOON is the same with which Mr. Green performed his nocturnal Ascents from the Royal Gardens,Vauxhall, London. It is composed of 1200 yards of the richest Silk, in alternate Colours of Crimson and Gold, measures 110 feet in circumference, contains 141,364 gallons, and with the Car attached, is 60 feet high.

Printed by W. Wales & Co. Castle Street.

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