This picture shows the annual jazz festival in front of Beaulieu Palace House back in the late 1950s.
The events, some of the first of this kind ever to be held in Britain, attracted huge crowds.
Unfortunately in 1960 the festival was marred by unruly behaviour and vandalism.
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