Beaulieu
Having travelled the length and breadth of the country to
visit many wonderful museums and collections we continued our journey to
Beaulieu located in the New Forest National Park near Southampton.
Owned by the Montagu family since 1538 Beaulieu is currently
part of a very select club of Treasures House of England which lists it as one of
ten most magnificent palaces, houses and castles in England. Along with the Palace
House, Abbey and gardens, Beaulieu is home to over 250 automobiles and
motorcycles. The Vehicle collection is extremely varied and comprises of
vintage cars and motorcycles, motor racing cars including formula 1 and cars
used on screen such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Del Boys three wheel Reliant
Regal. Also within the motor museum are the Top Gear cars used in the
television series from their attempts to create practical mobile homes to their
even worse efforts at converting cars into boats to cross the English Channel
to France.
As the weather was with us it was a great day out to explore
the place and grounds plus take the opportunity to take some great shots of
cars for my automobile section of my book. If you are in the area it is
definitely well worth a visit with a great variety of things to see. A
selection of the photographs taken is below.
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