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Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon designs by Charles & Robert and Montgolfier

Balloon designs by Charles & Robert and Montgolfier
Balloon designs by Charles and Robert (1, 5) and the Montgolfier Brothers (2, 3, 4). No. 3 ascended from Versailles. No. 4 ascended from the Chateau de la Muette. No

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon descent, Beuvri near Bethune, France

Balloon descent, Beuvri near Bethune, France
View of the Plaine de Beuvri (or Beuvry) near the town of Bethune in Artois, north of Paris

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon ascent from Prairie de Nesle, northern France

Balloon ascent from Prairie de Nesle, northern France
Balloon ascent by M Charles from the Prairie de Nesle, northern France, where it had landed after taking off from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, on 1 December 1783

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon descent, Chateau de Beuvri, France

Balloon descent, Chateau de Beuvri, France
Balloon descent by the Robert brothers and Colin Hullin in front of the Chateau de Beuvry, near Bethune. They had ascended from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, earlier the same day

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon descent, Prairie de Nesle, France

Balloon descent, Prairie de Nesle, France
Balloon descent of Charles and Robert onto the Prairie de Nesle, northern France, surrounded by various witnesses, including an English gentleman, Mr Fares, who was the first to greet M Charles

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon ascent from the Tuilieries Gardens, Paris

Balloon ascent from the Tuilieries Gardens, Paris
Second balloon ascent, made from the Tuileries Gardens by Charles and Robert, watched by a crowd of spectators. 1 December 1783

Background imageGardens Collection: Air balloon of Charles and Robert, Paris

Air balloon of Charles and Robert, Paris
The air balloon of Charles and Robert, exhibited in Paris, from where they ascended from the Tuileries Gardens. 1 December 1783

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon ascent from Tuileries Gardens, Paris

Balloon ascent from Tuileries Gardens, Paris
A balloon which ascended from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, on either 27 August or 1 December 1783. If on the earlier date, it may have been released without passengers, as a test run. 1783

Background imageGardens Collection: Vauxhall Royal Balloon ascent

Vauxhall Royal Balloon ascent
Vauxhall Royal Balloon, constructed by C Green, containing several people, ascending from the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, London. 9 September 1836

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon race, Green brothers

Balloon race, Green brothers
Scene during a balloon race between Charles Green and his brother, which began at the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, London. Seen here is one balloon which has descended into slightly rough water

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon with parachute, tragic accident of Mr Cocking

Balloon with parachute, tragic accident of Mr Cocking
The Royal Vauxhall Nassau Balloon with Mr Cockings Parachute attached as they ascended from the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall. At the bottom are two sketches of the release hook. 24 July 1837

Background imageGardens Collection: Ballooning celebration for Queen Victorias birthday

Ballooning celebration for Queen Victorias birthday
Front page of The Penny Satirist - A cheap substitute for a weekly Newspaper

Background imageGardens Collection: Greens balloon ascent, Surrey Zoological Gardens

Greens balloon ascent, Surrey Zoological Gardens

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloons and ballooning scenes

Balloons and ballooning scenes

Background imageGardens Collection: Charles Green in the Coronation Balloon

Charles Green in the Coronation Balloon
An imaginary depiction of Charles Green on a horse, riding in the Coronation Balloon, in which he ascended from White Conduit Gardens, London. 13 August 1828

Background imageGardens Collection: Return of a balloon, Paris

Return of a balloon, Paris
The ceremonial return of a balloon to Paris, with various people of distinction. Charles and Robert made the ascent from the Tuileries Gardens the previous day. 2 December 1783

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon ascent on Queen Victorias birthday

Balloon ascent on Queen Victorias birthday

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon ascending with Sadler and Paget

Balloon ascending with Sadler and Paget
A balloon ascending with Mr Sadler and Captain Paget of the Royal Navy from the gardens of the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, London, watched by a crowd of spectators. 12 August 1811

Background imageGardens Collection: Garnerins balloons

Garnerins balloons
Five illustrations of An exact representation of M. Garnerins Balloons with an accurate view of the ascent and descent of the parachute

Background imageGardens Collection: Balloon event, Green and Cocking

Balloon event, Green and Cocking

Background imageGardens Collection: Spectators of balloon ascent, Paris

Spectators of balloon ascent, Paris
Aux Amateurs de Physique, Vue d Optique

Background imageGardens Collection: Handbill for balloon race, Green brothers

Handbill for balloon race, Green brothers
Handbill advertising a balloon race between Charles Green and his brother in two balloons, taking place from the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, London, to celebrate the Queens birthday. 13 August 1835

Background imageGardens Collection: Mr Grahams balloon ascent, Kew Bridge

Mr Grahams balloon ascent, Kew Bridge
Poster advertising Aerostation. Mr Grahams Sixteenth Ascent from the gardens of the Star & Garter Tavern, Kew Bridge, London. 4 April 1825

Background imageGardens Collection: Robert Brothers in balloon over the Tuileries, Paris

Robert Brothers in balloon over the Tuileries, Paris
The Robert Brothers and M. Collin-Hullin ascending in a large oval balloon from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris. 1784

Background imageGardens Collection: Airship, the Eagle, on display in London

Airship, the Eagle, on display in London
Engineering drawing of an airship, on display to the public at the Grounds of the Aeronautical Society, Victoria Road, opposite Kensington Gardens, London. With descriptive text below. 1835

Background imageGardens Collection: Florence from the Boboli Gardens, Italy

Florence from the Boboli Gardens, Italy
View of Florence from the Boboli Gardens, Italy. late 19th century

Background imageGardens Collection: Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens on Gala Night, 1804

Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens on Gala Night, 1804
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Merrymakers seen gathered around the illuminated band stand. Date: 1804

Background imageGardens Collection: Market garden produce

Market garden produce
A selection of market vegetables including artichokes, displayed in baskets in front of greenhouses and vegetable plots. Date: c.1930

Background imageGardens Collection: Eden Gardens, Calcutta (Kolkata), India

Eden Gardens, Calcutta (Kolkata), India. It is now used as a cricket ground. circa 1890s

Background imageGardens Collection: Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan

Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. circa 1890s

Background imageGardens Collection: Gardens, Nikko, Japan

Gardens, Nikko, Japan

Background imageGardens Collection: Gardens in Kobe, Japan

Gardens in Kobe, Japan. circa 1890s

Background imageGardens Collection: London silhouettes

London silhouettes Date: 1914

Background imageGardens Collection: Cantonment Gardens, Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar)

Cantonment Gardens, Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar)
Cantonment Gardens, Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). circa 1890s

Background imageGardens Collection: Botanical Gardens, Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, India

Botanical Gardens, Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, India
Government Botanical Gardens, Ootacamund (Udhagamandalam, Ooty), Tamil Nadu state, India. circa 1890s

Background imageGardens Collection: Home Gardening magazine, January 1932

Home Gardening magazine, January 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring pictorial instructions for taking chrysanthemum cuttings. Date: 1932

Background imageGardens Collection: Home Gardening magazine, November 1932

Home Gardening magazine, November 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine with an illustration suggesting pretty features to add your garden this autumn including a small pond with a heron statue, a bird house

Background imageGardens Collection: Home Gardening magazine, December 1931

Home Gardening magazine, December 1931
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring an overhead view of a garden, with a recommended plan for laying it out with a lawn in the middle

Background imageGardens Collection: Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India

Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India. circa 1890s

Background imageGardens Collection: Home Gardening magazine, October 1928

Home Gardening magazine, October 1928
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a lady on plant up of bowl with bulbs. Advice on how to achieve good blooms and strong foliage is contained inside. Date: 1928

Background imageGardens Collection: Home Gardening magazine, August 1932

Home Gardening magazine, August 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a display of Coonara poppies in differing hues

Background imageGardens Collection: Home Gardening magazine, September 1932

Home Gardening magazine, September 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine advising readers to start planting their bulb bowls now in order to ensure a vibrant display of hyacinths indoors over winter. Date: 1932

Background imageGardens Collection: Home Gardening magazine, December 1932

Home Gardening magazine, December 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a suggestion to build a rockery to add beauty to your garden. Make one now and it will be in full flower next year. Date: 1932

Background imageGardens Collection: Home Gardening magazine, September 1928

Home Gardening magazine, September 1928
Home Gardening magazine featuring a suggestion for the layout of a front garden the design of which was apparently specially prepared by one of the greatest authorities in the country

Background imageGardens Collection: Home Gardening magazine, September 1929

Home Gardening magazine, September 1929
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a young girl picking asters Iwhich, apparently, don t mind the dry summer) in a large garden. Date: 1929

Background imageGardens Collection: The Winter Gardens, Royal Hotel, Great Yarmouth

The Winter Gardens, Royal Hotel, Great Yarmouth
Scene inside The Winter Gardens of the Royal Hotel, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, showing elegant people sitting at tables. early 20th century

Background imageGardens Collection: Art Deco fountain

Art Deco fountain
Gorgeous stylised art deco illustration, part of chocolate box packaging design, featuring a perfectly symmetrical garden which has at its centre a vertiginous fountain. c.1925

Background imageGardens Collection: Scene in the Lounge, Prince of Wales Hotel, London

Scene in the Lounge, Prince of Wales Hotel, London
Scene in the Lounge of the Prince of Wales Hotel, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, London, with elegant people taking afternoon tea. early 20th century

Background imageGardens Collection: The Pavilion, Bournemouth

The Pavilion, Bournemouth
A view of the interior of the Pavillion building in the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth circa 1905

Background imageGardens Collection: Garden, Museum Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal, Madeira

Garden, Museum Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal, Madeira
View of the garden of the Museum Quinta das Cruzes (Manor Estate of the Crosses) in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Background imageGardens Collection: Children in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris

Children in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
Two girls and two boys in a sandpit in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris. It must be cold weather, as the girls are wearing winter coats and hats. Date: 1955

Background imageGardens Collection: Commemorative plate with balloon design

Commemorative plate with balloon design

Background imageGardens Collection: Charity event at Kew Gardens, west London

Charity event at Kew Gardens, west London, with people fishing for beer bottles. In the lower picture, a woman tries to get onto a wooden horse. circa 1920s

Background imageGardens Collection: Garden landscape

Garden landscape
Landscape scene of gardens with shed and trees; a somewhat sinister air

Background imageGardens Collection: Botanical Sketchbook -- Common Tormentil

Botanical Sketchbook -- Common Tormentil. 1920s

Background imageGardens Collection: The Round Pond angler in silhouette

The Round Pond angler in silhouette
A small child with a fishing net amuses himself at the Round Pond, Kensington Gardens, London. Date: 1926

Background imageGardens Collection: Children in Kensington Gardens in silhouette

Children in Kensington Gardens in silhouette
Charming scene showing two children in Kensington Gardens, London during the 1920s. Date: 1926

Background imageGardens Collection: Street music: Accordian player in London

Street music: Accordian player in London
An elderly man plays the accordian before an audience of intrigued street children in St. Stephens Gardens in W2

Background imageGardens Collection: The lobby and Mezzanine floor in the Morrison Hotel, Chicago

The lobby and Mezzanine floor in the Morrison Hotel, Chicago, USA, 1920s Date: 1920s

Background imageGardens Collection: A view of the Terrace Garden in the Morrison Hotel, Chicago

A view of the Terrace Garden in the Morrison Hotel, Chicago
A view of the Terrace Garden in the Morrison Hotel, at Madison at Clark, Chicago, USA, 1920s. Regarded as Chicagos wonder restaurant. Date: 1920s

Background imageGardens Collection: Woman and child in St Stephens Gardens

Woman and child in St Stephens Gardens
A middle aged woman, Mrs Bidgood, and a little girl, inside one of the flats in St Stephens Gardens, near Westbourne Grove, London. Date: 1961

Background imageGardens Collection: Little boy at Kew Gardens with Canada Geese

Little boy at Kew Gardens with Canada Geese
A little boy at Kew Gardens, standing close to a group of Canada Geese. Date: circa 1970

Background imageGardens Collection: Graffiti in St Stephens Gardens

Graffiti in St Stephens Gardens
Graffiti on a concrete wall in St Stephens Gardens, near Westbourne Grove, London. In black paint someone has painted a human eye and written " I LOVE ME". Date: 1958

Background imageGardens Collection: The Palm House, Kew Gardens, London

The Palm House, Kew Gardens, London. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Background imageGardens Collection: Glasshouses at Bicton Park Botanical Gardens, Devon

Glasshouses at Bicton Park Botanical Gardens, Devon
Glasshouses at Bicton Park Botanical Gardens in the Otter Valley, East Devon. There are four glasshouses in total: the Palm House, the Tropical House, the Arid House and the Temperate House

Background imageGardens Collection: Operagoers at Glyndebourne, Sussex

Operagoers at Glyndebourne, Sussex
Operagoers stroll around the gardens at Glyndebourne, near Lewes, East Sussex, venue of the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera since 1934

Background imageGardens Collection: Old ladies chat in St Stephens Gardens

Old ladies chat in St Stephens Gardens
Two old ladies stand chatting outside a pub in St Stephens Gardens, near Westbourne Grove, London. A man in a flat cap leans against the wall, perhaps waiting for the pub to open. Date: 1958

Background imageGardens Collection: St Stephens Gardens, London

St Stephens Gardens, London
A rainy day in St Stephens Gardens, near Westbourne Grove, London, at that time part of the Rachman empire of slum housing, but today a sought-after residential location. Date: 1957

Background imageGardens Collection: Scene in Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales

Scene in Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales
Scene in the town of Ebbw Vale (Glyn Ebwy), Gwent, South Wales, with housing on the right and a coal mine in the distance. Date: 1968

Background imageGardens Collection: Bicton Park Botanical Gardens, Devon

Bicton Park Botanical Gardens, Devon
View across the fountain at Bicton Park Botanical Gardens in the Otter Valley, East Devon. Date: 1967

Background imageGardens Collection: Children in St Stephens Gardens

Children in St Stephens Gardens
Children playing hand in hand in the roadway on a wet day in St Stephens Gardens, near Westbourne Grove, London. A little girl in the background holds up a tiny umbrella. Date: 1957

Background imageGardens Collection: Young couple in St Stephens Gardens

Young couple in St Stephens Gardens
A young couple stand chatting at the corner of St Stephens Gardens, near Westbourne Grove, London, watched by a little girl. Date: 1957

Background imageGardens Collection: Tenants meeting, St Stephens Gardens

Tenants meeting, St Stephens Gardens
A tenants association meeting in St Stephens Gardens, near Westbourne Grove, London, in the year that the local slum landlord, Peter Rachman, died

Background imageGardens Collection: Bognor Regis Gardens

Bognor Regis Gardens
The seating pavilion in the public gardens at Bognor Regis, Sussex, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageGardens Collection: Kensington Gardens

Kensington Gardens
Raised flower beds in Kensington Gardens, London. Date: early 1930s

Background imageGardens Collection: Girl and Ball Pool

Girl and Ball Pool
A young girls plays in the ball pool at the Bicton Gardens play area, Devon. Date: 1993

Background imageGardens Collection: Southend on Sea 1930S

Southend on Sea 1930S
The Pleasure Gardens at Southend on Sea, Essex, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageGardens Collection: Blowing Bubbles

Blowing Bubbles
A group of orphan children blowing bubbles around a table in the gardens of the Foundling Hospital, Guildford Street, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageGardens Collection: London Street 1957

London Street 1957

Background imageGardens Collection: Washing Line 1930S

Washing Line 1930S
Washing hanging on the line in the back gardens of cottages at Buckland, near Yelverton, South Devon, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageGardens Collection: Dig for Victory poster - WWII

Dig for Victory poster - WWII
World War Two poster encouraging British civilians to dig for victory, featuring somebody doing just that. Date: c.1940

Background imageGardens Collection: Girl in a garden

Girl in a garden
A girl in a wide brimmed hat and 1920s drop waisted dress, walks along the pathway of an abundant floral garden with a watering can. Date: 1926

Background imageGardens Collection: Entrance and gardens - Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo

Entrance and gardens - Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo
The entrance and gardens of the Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo Date: 1920s

Background imageGardens Collection: Lamp Post Larks

Lamp Post Larks
Mischievous little girls hanging from a lamp post, St. Stephens Gardens, London. Date: 1957




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