As the Lake District prepares to mark 100 years since the birth of speed daredevil Donald Campbell this March, bosses at the Lakeland Motor Museum say its dedicated Campbell exhibition is the ideal place for visitors to pay tribute – when the time is right for people to return.
Born on March 23, 1921, Campbell – whose adventurous exploits cemented his name among the biggest legends of the 20th century – was tragically killed on Coniston Water on January 4, 1967, while he was attempting to break his own world water speed record in his legendary Bluebird K7 craft.
In total, Campbell set seven world water speed records in K7 from 1955 to 1964: the first on Ullswater in 1955 where he reached more than 202mph, and further afield he achieved the Australian water speed record of 216mph on Lake Bonney Riverland in South Australia in 1964.