August 28, 1826

When:
28/08/2021 all-day
2021-08-28T00:00:00+01:00
2021-08-29T00:00:00+01:00

Ten thousand people were attracted to the neighbourhood of St James’s Hill, Norwich, to witness the performances of “Signor Carlo Cram Villecrop, the celebrated Swiss Mountain Flyer from Geneva and Mont Blanc”. He was to exhibit “with the Tyrolese pole, 50 feet long, the most astonishing gymnastic flights never before witnessed in this country”. It was a hoax.