Lamppost Pictures – photoblog

Once you look at these photos it’ll be pretty obvious that I didn’t take them myself. However, I can lay some sort of claim to them, after a fashion, because my great-grandfather (also a very keen amateur photographer) took them during his WWI service with the British merchant navy. I was flicking through the few photos of his that I have to hand (his overall archive is huge, and only partly digitised so far), and I thought I’d share a some of them.

This series comprises of some of the photos taken during my great-grandfather’s training and service in the Kite Balloon section of the Royal Naval Air Service – both in London and at sea.

Balloon training, Hurlingham, S-W London

Launching a weather balloon from the ship deck

Balloon, mid-burst

Holding on to the ripped balloon

Balloon launch

Balloon - underbelly and basket