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1851
Illustrated London News — Saturday 11 January 1851
>https://www.historyofwandsworthcommon.org/chronicles/chronicles-all-text-so-far.htmlRoyal Freemasons' School for Female Children.
The annual meeting 01 the Subscribers and friends of this charity took place on Thursday, the school. Westminster-road; Mr. W. V. Beadon in the chair. The report stated that there were tire candidates to be elected in April next. There were children in the house at present, who were boarded, clothed, and educated; and out of the 600 who had been brought up in that establishment, there had not been a single case in which they had not turned out to the perfect satisfaction of their employers. The building committee made a most favourable report. The committee had effected the purchase of two acres of land for new school at Wandsworth Common, close to the Clapham Station, and it was their intention to build a most efficient schoolhouse. The report was adopted, and a vote of thanks the chairman concluded the business of the meeting.
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[Good bit on Wandsworth Prison]
. . . the, reception of inmates. most commanding aspect, resembling extensive outline, combined with the isolated an site (Wandsworth-common) upon which it stands , sm ell town. The area enclosed within the walls no 13 acres, and the building, designed by Mr . . . Published: Friday 07 March 1851 Newspaper: Sun (London) County: London, England Type: Article | Words: 2102 | Page: 6 | Tags: none LINK
Palmyre Garneron — her balloon descends on Wandsworth Common[BNA SEARCH: Palmyre Garneron.]
Sun (London) — Saturday 26 July 1851
CREMORNE GARDENS
Last night Mdlle. Palmyre Garneron made a successful balloon ascent from this excellent al fresco place of amusement. The evening was very fine, and highly favourable for aerial navigation. After rising, steadily for a few hundred feet, the balloon took a south-westerly direction, and after a short but pleasant passage across the river, Mdlle. Garneron effected a safe descent on Wandsworth-common. The gardens were very full.
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Ditto: The Era — Sunday 27 July 1851
[She made a number of flights around this time, with an almost-fatal catastophe at the end. Follow up here:
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London Evening Standard — Wednesday 06 August 1851
BALLOON ACCIDENT- NARROW ESCAPE.
Yesterday evening witnessed an accident which all but resulted with loss of life to the unhappy female aeronaut engaged. The lady in question was the celebrated Madame Palmyre Garneron, and the scene of her operations waa Hatty's Hippodrome, at Kensington, from whence Mrs. Graham took her disastrous flight last Jane.
Six o'clock was the time appointed for the ascent, but in consequence of some little difficulty about the inflation, it did not take place till nearly a quarter to seven. The wind was rather strong at the time, and the moment the machine was released from its moorings, it rose very heavily, and barely cleared the Circus enclosure. Madame Garneron immediately emptied a bag of ballast amongst a large crowd, who were watching it in Victoria-road, but before she was able to discharge another, the car of the balloon struck the projecting garret window of No. 1, Madeley Villas, which is just on the opposite side of Victoria-road to the Circus, and in an instant the poor lady was seen with her feet entangled in the netting at the side of the half-inverted car, and hanging right out of it witb her head downwards.
A loud exclamation of horror burst from the frightened crowd, and just at the critical moment when they expected to seethe balloon (out of which a sandbag had rolled) rise with its unhappy occupant in that fearful situation, the netting caught in a stack of chimneys, the balloon at once collapsed with the shock, and iv a few seconds it was hanging helplessly flapping over the house- side into the garden, while the unfortunate lady was left lying on the roof. Wonderful to say she had received no injury, and after she had recovered from the faintness caused by the sudden escape of such a volume of gas she stood np aud feebly waved her acknowledgments to the spectators below, who hailed her safety with loud cheers.
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Peter Cunningham (whose houses have a joint roof), with their domestics and policemen, immediately rendered her every assistance, and we are happy to say that she not only was able to assist and give every necessary direction about her balloon, but that the damage to Mr. Johnson's house was of the most trifling description.
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John Bull — Monday 28 July 1851
Serious Balloon Accident.
On Friday Mdlle. Palmyre Garneron having ascended in balloon from Cremorne Gardens, shortly after clearing the trees, and attaining considerable height, was wafted across the river, to nearly over Old Battersea Church, when suddenly, to the consternation and dismay of the spectators, the balloon was observed to become collapsed to about one half Its original bulk, and to descend to the earth with such extraordinary rapidity to impress those who witnessed the catastrophe with the idea that the result roust have proved fatal to the unfortunate lady. Whether such was the case, or to what extent Mdlle. Garneron was injured, could not be immediately known. Those who were despatched to her assistance maintain prudent reserve on the subject. We, of course, therefore, refrain from speculation upon It.''
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