Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
After a fire in 1791 at Richmond House in Whitehall, London, James Wyatt added two great wings to showcase the saved collection at Goodwood. To give unity to the two new wings, Wyatt added copper-domed turrets framing each façade.
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
The dining room is host to an original painting from the Goodwood collection of the 6th Duke as a child.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
From 2005 to present there has been a demonstration area for the rally cars at the top of the hill
Spectate from the chicane at the Revival to see plenty of classic cars going sideways as they exit this infamous point of our Motor Circuit.
Spectate from the chicane at the Revival to see plenty of classic cars going sideways as they exit this infamous point of our Motor Circuit.
For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
From 2005 to present there has been a demonstration area for the rally cars at the top of the hill
Goodwood Motor Circuit was officially opened in September 1948 when Freddie March, the 9th Duke and renowned amateur racer, tore around the track in a Bristol 400
Legend of Goodwood's golden racing era and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori once famously said "give me Goodwood on a summer's day and you can forget the rest".
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
The Gordon Tartan has been worn by the Dukes and Duchesses over the last 300 years.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Estate milk was once transformed into ice-creams, bombes, and syllabubs, and the Georgian ice house still stands in the grounds in front of Goodwood House.
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
4 doors in the lodge were rescued from salvage and expertly split to ensure they meet modern fire standards before being fitted.
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
Pastels are back on the fashion catwalks, but for car enthusiasts, those bright but delicate ice-cream shades will always call to mind the bodywork of classic 1950s automobiles
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It began in Milan at men’s fashion week in June 2017, when Versace debuted a head-to-toe pastel look for Spring/Summer 2018. Then, in September, at the women’s fashion weeks, similar hues – pale strawberry, mint green and lilac – were dished out like confectionery by designers. Starting in New York, where Victoria Beckham and Tom Ford’s collections majored on the pastel palette, the trend carried on to London at Peter Pilotto, Preen By Thornton Bregazzi and Pringle of Scotland, before sweeping through Milan, with Versace’s head-to-toe blue and pink ensembles providing a stylish highlight. In Paris, even design heavyweights Céline and Hermès proved themselves not too grand for a lighter touch.
Clockwise from top left: Hermès Spring/Summer 2018; Versace Spring/Summer 2018; VW Beetle in Arctic Blue;
To car connoisseurs, these sugared-almond shades strike an immediate aesthetic chord. For it’s the pastel-coloured Cadillacs, T-Birds and VW Beetles of the 1950s – along with everything from fitted kitchens and appliances to full-circle skirts – that defined the era. Such was their prominence that one could almost believe pastels were invented in that decade, although modernist designers in the 1930s and ’40s had certainly recognised the appeal of these lighter shades. But the big change in the 1950s – and why we so strongly associate pastels with Cadillacs and Capri pants – is that advances in technology meant that paint colours and colour treatments for products were suddenly available in any possible hue. American families were flocking to the suburbs, and as they found more time for recreation, they also sought out a more fun, modern style of interior design for their spacious new pads. With the growth of advertising, there was also more scientific interest in colour and its benefits and appeal.
It was the pastel-coloured Cadillacs, T-Birds and VW Beetles of the 1950s – along with everything from fitted kitchens to full-circle skirts – that truly defined the era
Cars, almost more than any other consumer item in this most consumerist of eras – took particular advantage. Look through any 1950s car brochure and the pretty-as-a-picture palette leaps out. If you’d ordered a Cadillac DeVille in 1956, for example, you could have selected from Dawn Gray mauve, minty Duchess Green, baby Sonic Blue or butter-yellow Cape Ivory (names that would give Farrow & Ball a run for its money). In fact, any commercially available paint colour could be specified via Cadillac’s Special Order service. The following year saw plenty more options too – your Ford Thunderbird could be Dusk Rose, a vanilla Sun Gold or Stormiest Blue. And it wasn’t just Americans who were getting in on the act. Volkswagen Beetles were Iris Blue or lilac (just like Palma Violets), while the first Fiat 500s in the late 1950s and early ’60s were available in beiges and creams, powder blue and mint. Quite a progression, when you consider Henry Ford’s much-quoted remark about the Model T on its release back in 1909: “Any customer can have a car painted any colour he wants so long as it is black.” No doubt he was biased, having discovered that of all the colours, black paint was the fastest to dry. Nevertheless, pastels won over in the end, with contrasting interiors that made the bodywork shades really pop.
The fashion designers of the 1950s were in on the act too, dressing many of the decade’s most notable figures in sugary shades – most notably, Mamie Eisenhower. General Dwight D Eisenhower’s wife was a popular figure, whose outgoing character, overt femininity and love of dressing up endeared her to the public. She wore what became one of the most famous dresses in American fashion history to the 1953 Inaugural Ball – a pink peau de soie gown embroidered with more than 2,000 rhinestones, designed by Nettie Rosenstein. And she didn’t stop there. A woman who had carried around a colour card of her favourite shades to all the houses she’d moved into as the wife of a soldier, she decorated the White House with so much pink, it was known by the press as The Pink Palace. And her chosen shade of pastel, now firmly associated with 1950s decorating, became known as Mamie Pink.
Pastels were reassuring and warm... these lively shades were embraced after years of dreary wartime khaki and restriction
Adverts for the 1954 Cadillac Series 60 Special and the 1954 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible epitomised the decade’s bright, optimistic look
From palest pink to mint green and icy blue, these lively shades were wholeheartedly embraced after years of dreary wartime khaki and restriction. What’s more, they reflected the comfort and stability craved by families reuniting after the conflict. Pastels were reassuring, homely and warm. It’s striking, too, that this time around, the new season’s latest pastels crush comes in the wake of a long run of earthy, 1970s-style colours in fashion, which are often thought of as difficult: brown, ochres, vivid yellows and flashes of orange and scarlet. The comparative simplicity of pink, blue and lilac feels now – as then – something of a relief.
The 1959 Fiat 500 Jolly, born of Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli’s desire for open transport from his yacht during port stops along the Mediterranean coast
For pastels have always evoked the same feelings – springtime, youthfulness, good weather, fun and a certain innocence – associations and sentiments which, like the colours, also go in and out of fashion according to the mood of our times. At various points, pastels will seem lame, girly or slightly embarrassing, or, as now, cool, refreshing, optimistic even. In times of political uncertainty, perhaps it’s not too far a stretch to suggest that this is the reason we’ve once again sought them out.
A more cynical view might be that designers are only too aware how well eye-catching colour does online – the world in which we all now live and shop. From retail sales to likes on Instagram, colour works. And none more so than pink, which has certainly proven its mettle via the millennial demographic – to the point where the phrase “millennial pink” has entered the lexicon. Big brands are still desperate to romance millennials. If only they could expand that love of pink into an equal fondness for, say, lilac, baby blue, mint green or primrose yellow... Well, wouldn’t that be a pretty picture?
Left: the interior of a 1962 Ford Thunderbird. Right: Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2018 runway show
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