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Tag: From the Clouds

Chelsea’s Lady Mayor who went up in a Hydrogen balloon in Coronation Week 1953 in high winds from the Royal Hospital and ended up in a field in Sussex.

April 8, 2026 Kultura Press

The “Henri Dunant” hydrogen balloon was the biggest in the world and 65 year old Miss Mary Katherine Cook undoubtedly Chelsea’s slightest and smallest elected

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