Air Balloon: Landmark pub to close forever on New Year’s Eve
The Air Balloon in Birdlip is being demolished to make way for a major road upgrade on the A417. …
Carol Challis, the widow of late actor John Challis, tweeted: “Goodbye to the Air Balloon or the Air ‘alloon as John used to call it after the B fell off one year. Finally there is to be a new road but the pub has to be demolished to make way. On our way to London we passed it hundreds of times.”