World Altitude Balloon Record c30,000ft without Oxygen by James Glaisher F.R.S. and Henry Coxwell Ascended from Stafford Road Gas Works which supplied Commercial Coal Gas on 5.9.1862

This is an approximate position

Science Park, Stafford Road, Wolverhampton
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by Wolverhampton Civic Society and British Gas TransCo in 1997

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