'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker This recommends that athletics are

This recommends that athletics are 'as necessary to the health of the softer sex' as well as being 'useful aids to innocent flirtation'

This cartoon relates to the rumours in France that Pope Pius IX had threatened to excommunicate Louis Napoleon

Greenwich Hospital surrounded by parkland

Cowley Hall

Tower Dock

'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker This recommends that athletics areView of the Royal Vauxhall, later renamed Royal Nassau flown by the pioneering balloonist Charles Green (1785 1870). The balloon was inflated using coal gas and launched from sites that included Vauxhall Gardens in London. Plate from Animal locomotion or walking, swimming and, and flying, with a dissertation on aeronautics, by James Bell Pettigrew (Henry S. King & Co., London, 1873). James Bell Pettigrew (1832 1908) comparative anatomist, was elected