'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker You done yer werry best

You done yer werry best to win

Cowley Hall

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

Tower Dock

View with Somerset House behind and to the left of the tower

'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker You done yer werry bestView 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