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Air Balloon (pub)
- ... that the Air Balloon pub in Gloucestershire is believed to have been named after pioneering British hot air balloon flights? Source: "The pub probably takes its name from the pioneering balloon flights that took place on the Cotswold Escarpments in 1784, just a year after the Montgolfier brothers". North Cotswold Pubs Though Time Amberley, 2012, p.14
- Reviewed: Christ Mocked
Created by Ritchie333 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:19, 27 October 2019 (UTC).
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I don’t think traffic is a particularly good hook, though it’s what makes the pub well known. Although I’ve stopped here several times, and driven round the junction even more, I didn’t know about the name, so that seemed the ideal hook. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:03, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- ALT1... that the Air Balloon pub in Gloucestershire, which opened in 1784, is believed to have been named after a pioneering hot air balloon flight by the Montgolfier brothers?