Future Lab is Goodwood's innovation pavilion, inspiring industry enthusiasts and future scientists with dynamic tech
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.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
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.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
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 Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Each room has it's own button to ring for James (your butler) whenever and whatever you need him for.
FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Future Lab is Goodwood's innovation pavilion, inspiring industry enthusiasts and future scientists with dynamic tech
Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
Nick Heidfelds 1999 (41.6s) hillclimb record was beaten after Max Chilton in his McMurtry Spéirling fan car tore it to shreds at 39.08s in 2022!
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
The first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
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
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
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 iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The Gordon Tartan has been worn by the Dukes and Duchesses over the last 300 years.
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 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 iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
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
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Easy boy! The charismatic Farnham Flyer loved to celebrate every win with a pint of beer. His Boxer dog, Grogger, did too and had a tendancy to steal sips straight from the glass.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
Once derided as stodgy and lacking in finesse, traditional British food is enjoying a reappraisal. Here we uncover four “lost” Sussex recipes
Words by Charlotte Hogarth-Jones
Food
Magazine
The Slow Food movement is responsible for much of the renewed interest in our culinary heritage, not least in tracking down some of the “lost recipes” – many of them from Sussex – that have disappeared from our dining tables. The calorific punch these dishes deliver, not to mention their time-consuming preparation, means they’re unlikely to return to being weekly staples – apparently 18th-century labourers needed to consume 6,000 calories a day, rather than our own 2,000-2,500, such was the energy-burning impact of their daily workload and unheated houses. However, after The Great British Bake Off aired in 2016, sales of classic British puddings rose by 20 per cent, so maybe the Great Pudding Revival is just around the corner. Here are some of our favourites.
Sussex Pond Pudding
Arguably one of the most famous recipes to come out of the county, Sussex Pond Pudding, first recorded in 1672, is still cooked today and has an interesting background. A suet pastry that encases a whole lemon, with butter and sugar, the lemon is actually a contemporary addition – the earliest recorded use of it was in a recipe from Jane Grigson’s English Food in 1974. The name derives from the original 17th-century recipe, where the centre was filled with a pound (pond) of butter, that would ooze out once the pudding had been cut into. Later recipes suggest sprinkling rosewater and sugar into the centre before eating, or baking an apple or gooseberries inside instead. Today the recipe features on menus from time to time, such as at Marcus Wareing’s restaurant, The Gilbert Scott, in London. It was also the inspiration for Heston Blumenthal’s popular Waitrose Christmas pudding, which had a whole orange inside.
Sussex Bacon Pudding
Another suet-based pudding, Sussex Bacon Pudding is a dough covered with rashers of bacon, slices of onion, and sometimes sage, before being rolled up into a horseshoe shape and steamed in a bag on a stove. Pudding basins were invented later, as dishes with more moist fillings, such as steak and kidney pudding, became more common. There were variations, including sweet fillings, as well as one made with meat dripping. In the years before sophisticated solid fuel and gas cookers, ovens were very difficult to use, according to Glyn Hughes, who edits the Foods of England website, one of the most valuable food-history resources in the UK. Stove- simmered puddings were popular due to their simplicity, and were a useful way of making scarce ingredients stretch further. “Suet was popular back in the 18th century because a lot of animals, particularly pigs, were much fatter, so there was plenty to go around and it kept well,” he says, noting that vegetable oil wasn’t commonly used in households until around the 1980s. Slow-cooked dishes were also prevalent, as they meant labourers could leave things to cook while they were out.
Plum heavies
Regional specialities were far more common during the 18th and 19th centuries. “People didn’t travel, so they’d use local ingredients and local cooking techniques,” notes Hughes. A plum heavy was a small round cake, made of pie-crust, that was filled with raisins or currants and was unique to Sussex. While the main meal cooked at home, these portable snacks were designed for shepherds and woodsmen, who would set out to work with them in their pockets.
Sussex churdles
Similar to plum heavies, Sussex Churdles were also taken by labourers for their lunch. As with Cornish pasties, the scone-like outside of the pie provided an edible wrapper for the dish, which was filled with lamb’s liver, bacon and apple. Dating back to the 17th century, its name may be connected with the old word “churd”, meaning to turn over.
Glyn Hughes’s book, The Foods of England will be out in November. foodsofengland.co.uk
This article is taken from the Goodwood magazine, Winter 2018 issue
Food
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