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Dozens Of Hot Air Balloons Will (Hopefully) Fly Over Central London This Month londonist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from londonist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
See, we weren t making it up If you ve ever stopped at Finsbury Park station, you may have clocked the mosaic tiles depicting vintage hot air balloons. They look serene enough, but in truth they recall an age when Londoners were foaming at the mouth over the latest daredevil craze. In September 1784, in Finsbury Fields, Vincenzo Lunardi became the first human to fly in England, accompanied by a confused dog, a puzzled cat and a seen-it-all-before pigeon. After that, London was hooked. Vincent Lunardi, the first human to fly in England, ready to ascend (1785), by John Kay But if Lunardi s sounds like a perplexing floating menagerie, London had to wait another 68 years for the bizarrest and perhaps cruellest balloon stunt of all. It involved a seasoned French aeronaut, Madame Poitevin, and a bull and it would put a stop to the frankly demented practice of forcing animals to fly. ....