circa 1909: Captain Hanky and Miss Millicent James at a race meeting in Goodwood.  (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Phillips/Getty Images)circa 1909: Captain Hanky and Miss Millicent James at a race meeting in Goodwood.  (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Phillips/Getty Images)
circa 1909: Captain Hanky and Miss Millicent James at a race meeting in Goodwood. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Phillips/Getty Images)

14 fantastic old images from Goodwood Racecourse in Chichester

This week is the Qatar Goodwood Festival which is full of glitz, glamour and of course horseracing – so we have looked back at how a day at the races looked in the past.

Included in this selection are spectators watching a race at Goodwood from Trundle Hill back in 1929, a large crowd watching the horse racing in 1923. There are also pictures of Alexandra Marie Bridget, Countess Airlie and daughter of the 3rd Earl of Leicester arriving to watch racing in 1922, winning horse, 'King Sol' after a race in 1919.

You can also see friends having lunch with the ‘top down’, in the back of a motor car during racing in 1919, Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell, Countess of Carnarvon arriving in 1924 and Leo Rothschild and Lady Marsh at the races back in 1910. For more retro galleries click this link to our heritage section on our website.

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