During World War Two the RAF used Goodwood, a country house estate on the edge of the South Downs in West Sussex, as the base for a squadron of spitfires. When the war ended the Earl of March turned the airfield's perimeter road into a motor racing circuit and the first race was held there on September 18th 1948.
Sixty five years on and each September Goodwood hosts the Goodwood Revival, an event celebrating the circuit's motorsport heyday from 1948-1966. Of the 150,000 people attending I'd estimate that 90% were dressed in genuine mid-century era fashions which, along with the plethora of beautiful vintage racing cars (including the spectacular Ferrari GTO250), motorbikes and historic aeroplanes meant that I shot an awful lot of rolls of film. Below is a small selection of ten images from the films that I've had developed so far. Enjoy the time machine:
GT40
Hair and Helmet
Belle and the Biplane
RAF
Airmen
Noisy Norton
Home Straight Spectators
Spannering
Green Light for GO!
Guests of the Earl of March
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