Southampton balloon festival

[scott_saints]

Any one know why they stopped doing it?? (And when did it stop?)

 

Just seen a petition to bring it back on facebook. Have to say, I totally forgot about it but remember some f00king cool balloons in the sky when they used to do it. Should definitely bring it back!

[hamster]

Any one know why they stopped doing it?? (And when did it stop?)

 

Just seen a petition to bring it back on facebook. Have to say, I totally forgot about it but remember some f00king cool balloons in the sky when they used to do it. Should definitely bring it back!

 

And some good beer tents too. We should have a festival of some sort, but not one involvong the local horticultural society, they took up too much room which should have gone to parking imo.

[Hatch]

Because Inflation is at zero!!

 

 

 

Boom boom, I'm here all week...

[hamster]

Because Inflation is at zero!!

 

 

Boom boom, I'm here all week...

 

That went down like a erm....let's leave it there shall we.

[Block 18]

One of my favorites in recent years

 

 

Loads more photos here

 

http://www.garfnet.org.uk/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=288

[saint_stevo]

so in short, no one knows why?

[Weston Saint]

The Southampton flower and balloon festival was axed after rebranding failed to breathe new life into the event. Visitor numbers plummeted from 150,000 in its heyday to just 10,000.

[hamster]

The Southampton flower and balloon festival was axed after rebranding failed to breathe new life into the event. Visitor numbers plummeted from 150,000 in its heyday to just 10,000.

 

They also received a barrage of complaints from some basket case apparently.

[Johnny Bognor]

They also received a barrage of complaints from some basket case apparently.

 

 

I heard that too, but IMO it was just a load of hot air.

[egbb saint]

Also there was a problem with getting permission from the airport. Frankly not a great place to fly from too - too much chance of going out to sea or to the New Forest (you're not supposed to land there).

[Master Bates]

I loved the balloon festival, was always my highlight of the year, f**k the flowers though.

[John Boy Saint]

Probably the public liability insurance outweighed the income generated, kills of most things these days.

[Golden Balls]

foot and mouth

[Smirking_Saint]

I loved the balloon festival, was only a nipper and went with the old man and brother, although even back then the brother was a chavy little oik (somehow....... as he must have been about 7?)

[Arizona]

Saw a balloon festival in Staffordshire once. Woke up one morning to see a giant pot of Nescafe and a post box drifting 50ft above my back garden and land in the field next to it.

 

Balloons are cool.

[Jillyanne]

I bought a Guinea Pig at the balloon festival the year that Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson, I called it Fergie as it was ginger. I killed it by feeding it rhubarb leaves a few months later, no one told me that they were poisonous (sp) to animals.

[egbb saint]

foot and mouth

 

Forgot that

 

Balloons are cool.

 

No, they have to be hot. (Except gas balloons, which are rarely seen in this country, until next year)

[Master Bates]

Woo hoo

 

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4246826.Thousands_demand_return_of_balloon_festival/

[Dr Who?]

On 31/03/2009 at 07:53, Master Bates said:

Woo hoo

 

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4246826.Thousands_demand_return_of_balloon_festival/

But 12 years on, I take it this never took off? I used to watch from my house on Laburnum Road as a nipper. Flying over daisy dip. 

[badgerx16]

3 minutes ago, Dr Who? said:

But 12 years on, I take it this never took off? I used to watch from my house on Laburnum Road as a nipper. Flying over daisy dip. 

Ah !, A fellow resident of the Flower Gardens. ( Though I left at the end of 1980 after getting married ).

Edited 22 August, 2021 by badgerx16

[Dr Who?]

50 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Ah !, A fellow resident of the Flower Gardens. ( Though I left at the end of 1980 after getting married ).

I moved there in 1980 and was there until 1988 when I moved to other parts of Southampton until 1996 when I started moving more and more north. Guildford, Cheltenham, Reading, (back to Southampton for 5 years), Royston and Carlisle. 
 

What road on the flower estate were you on? 

[badgerx16]

2 minutes ago, Dr Who? said:

What road on the flower estate were you on? 

The worst, ( from a boy's perspective ).

[Master Bates]

On 22/08/2021 at 20:28, Dr Who? said:

But 12 years on, I take it this never took off? I used to watch from my house on Laburnum Road as a nipper. Flying over daisy dip. 

I like that 😅

[Turkish]

On 22/08/2021 at 21:24, Dr Who? said:

I moved there in 1980 and was there until 1988 when I moved to other parts of Southampton until 1996 when I started moving more and more north. Guildford, Cheltenham, Reading, (back to Southampton for 5 years), Royston and Carlisle. 
 

What road on the flower estate were you on? 

Was it you who used to make cheesecakes?

[Dr Who?]

20 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Was it you who used to make cheesecakes?

Yes. I now own Cumbrian Cheesecake. Also the cafe off the back of this. We are just about to open our Vintage Tea over 3 levels in the city centre. So it’s going ok. 
 

[Dr Who?]

This came up in one of the Southampton photos today.