'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Street Party in Pinnington Road

Street Party in Pinnington Road Gorton North in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Printed inscription: 'SIR LEOPOLD McCLINTOCK

seated in a high-backed chair

Two coachmen threaten each other with their whips while two women have fallen over a wheelbarrow

'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Street Party in Pinnington RoadView 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