Take a look at this web site, some really nice pics on it from
Peter Bull –
Official Festival Photographer http://www.iow1970.com/blog/?cat=3
Photo credit: Peter Bull – Official Festival PhotographerQuote:
Balloons were a big novelty in 1970. It was an enthusiasm for adventurers, and safe hot air balloon joy rides over city centres and festivals involving hundreds of balloons were still decades in the future. This balloon at IOW1970 wasn’t even a hot air balloon, it was an old closed helium gas balloon, firmly tied down to stop it from disappearing into the stratosphere.
Malcolm Brighton was the balloon enthusiast who owned this balloon and would happily talk to anyone who showed the slightest interest in his unusual obsession. Presumably it was also Malcom who sold the space on its orange sides to the Evening Standard and the Sunday Express (whose promotional banner not surprisingly fell off, as you can see).
It was also the same Malcolm Brighton who piloted a hybrid helium and hot air balloon – called a ‘Roziere’ type balloon – which took off from East Hampton, New York, in an ill-fated attempt to cross the Atlantic by balloon for the first time, just three weeks after IOW1970.
Neither the balloon, nor Malcolm, nor his two sponsor passengers, were ever seen again.
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