
A Parcel of Rogues
...such a parcel of rogues in a ..family! to paraphrase Robbie Burns, 1791
In 2007, while looking through the index to the archives at Horsham Museum, I came across a reference to a newspaper cutting with the headline "The Flight of the Allen Brothers". The date on the reference was 1857. I was intrigued; could this really be a reference to an early attempt at manned flight? More...