Beaulieu (Hampshire)
Beaulieu [ ˈbjuːliː ] is a small town in Hampshire , England , near the south coast and southwest of Southampton .
The Palace House estate (not to be confused with the Palace of Beaulieu in Essex ), which overlooks the town from the other side of the Beaulieu River, began as a gatehouse to Beaulieu Abbey in 1204 and has been the estate of the family of the respective Baron Montagu of Beaulieu since 1538 when he acquired it from the crown following the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry the Eighth of England .
The house was expanded in the 16th century and again in the 19th century, and it's a fine example of a Gothic country house nowadays . Although it continues to serve as the residence of Lord Montagu, parts of the house are open to the public. It is a member of the Treasure Houses of England consortium .
The place is also home to the National Motor Museum . The museum , which opened privately as The Montagu Motor Museum in 1952 , was converted into a foundation in 1972. The museum contains an important collection of historic motor vehicles, including four world record vehicles. Since 40 years of every year in September Lord Montagu launched Autojumble instead. It was originally intended as an auto parts market to attract more museum visitors. In 2010 it was the largest car market in England with 2200 exhibitors on three meadows belonging to the site.
The picturesque hamlet of Buckler's Hard , with its Georgian architecture on the Beaulieu River, is part of the 9000 ares (36 km²) community of Beaulieu. The shipyard of this place was the cradle of many British ships, including the ships of Admiral Nelson's fleet , and used the timber from the New Forest . The industry went back in the 19th century, and today the old shipyard serves as a tourist attraction with a small naval museum and a modern yacht - Marina . Sir Francis Chichester began and ended his one-handed circumnavigation of the world in Gipsy Moth IV in Buckler's Hard .
In the late 1950s, Beaulieu was the site of one of the first British experiments in pop culture, with the Beaulieu Jazz Festival , which quickly became one of the most important events on the annual calendar of England's jazz and pop scene. Each summer, the festival was accompanied by camping nights, young people invading the countryside, eccentric clothing, wild music, and the occasional wilder behavior. The development culminated in the so-called Battle of Beaulieu (Battle of Beaulieu) at the 1960s Festival, when rival supporters of modern and traditional jazz music fought out a kind of subculture competition . What exactly happened is controversial. After some calls for free beer for the working class became loud and resentment from parts of the audience with the festival presentation reminiscent of a garden party for the upper class . The stage was stormed, a building caught fire, there were hours of fighting with the police and 39 people were injured. There are even TV recordings by the BBC, but they were canceled when parts of the audience stormed the stage, which was a converted carousel ( Acker Bilk was playing at the time ). The next day a newspaper spoke of beatnik horror . Lord Montagu continued the festival again in 1961, but the security expenses were too high.
literature
- Lord Montagu of Beaulieu: Wheels Within Wheels: An Unconventional Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 2000.
- George McKay: "Unsafe things like youth and jazz": Beaulieu Jazz Festivals (1956–61) and the origins of pop festival culture in Great Britain . In: Andy Bennett (Ed.): Remembering Woodstock. Ashgate, Aldershot 2004.
- George McKay: Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain. Chapter 1: New Orleans jazz, protest (Aldermaston) and carnival (Beaulieu [Jazz Festival 1956-61]). Duke University Press, Durham NC 2005
- Duncan Heinen: Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers British Jazz, 1960–1975 , Equinox Publ 2012
Web links
- Photographs and description
- National Motor Museum
- Festival 1961, British Pathé
- Paul Sorene, The Beaulieu Palace Jazz Riot And A Homosexual Plot (1960), Flashbak 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ivan Hewett, The day Jazz fans had a riot, Daily Telegraph 2014 , Remembering the Beaulieu Festival 1960
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ N , 1 ° 27 ′ W