Esq., lace manufacturer, Northcote Spicer, Esq., J. Toms, Esq.,
and others witnessed experiments. Mr Marriatt, late of the San
Francisco News Letter brought down from London Mr Ellis, the
then lessee of Cremorne Gardens, Mr Partridge, and Lieutenant
Gale, the aeronaut, to witness experiments. Mr Ellis offered to
construct a covered way at Cremorne for experiments. Mr
Stringfellow repaired to Cremorne, but not much better
accommodations than he had at home were provided, owing to
unfulfilled engagement as to room. Mr Stringfellow was
preparing for departure when a party of gentlemen unconnected
with the Gardens begged to see an experiment, and finding them
able to appreciate his endeavours, he got up steam and started
the model down the wire. When it arrived at the spot where it
should leave the wire it appeared to meet with some obstruction,
and threatened to come to the ground, but it soon recovered
itself and darted off in as fair a flight as it was possible to
make at a distance of about 40 yards, where it was stopped by
the canvas.

'Having now demonstrated the practicability of making a
steam-engine fly, and finding nothing but a pecuniary loss and
little honour, this experimenter rested for a long time,
satisfied with what he had effected. The subject, however, had
to him special charms, and he still contemplated the renewal of
his experiments.'

It appears that Stringfellow's interest did not revive
sufficiently for the continuance of the experiments until the
founding of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain in 1866.
Wenham's paper on Aerial Locomotion read at the first meeting of