LAKELAND MOTOR MUSEUM -
CUMBRIA ENGLAND
British Motoring and Speed Records in the Lake District
The
one impression of driving the roads of North England’s Cumbria
lake region is the narrowness of the winding country lanes, often lined
with stone fences allowing small margin for error with your fellow road
travelers barreling the opposite way, perhaps the essence of British
motoring. And a visit to the Lakeland Motor Museum in lower Cumbria takes
you back on a nostalgic trip to England’s automobile past.
Once
a private collection, the Lakeland Motor Museum is located on the grounds
a Holker Hall, a Victorian
Manor House renowned
for its grand
scale house and gardens. The car museum collection is an eclectic 
range
from Enfield motorcycles, rare
1923 Raleigh, British classic Healys, Triumphs, Jaguars, German Messerschmitt
tri-wheelers, Italian
Alfas, a curious MG sports car designed as a police interceptor. Portions
of
the display
are presented
in a
complete
original 1930’s
motoring garage.
Perhaps
most unique about the collection are the examples from the career of
British world speed
competitors Sir Malcolm Campbell
and his son Donald
Campbell and their famed “Bluebird” boats and cars in the
Campbell Bluebird Exhibition. 
Donald Campbell was portrayed by Anthony
Hopkins in a BBC film “Across
the Lake”. The replica Bluebird hydroplane
boat used in the film is here, along with a replica of the 1935 Bonneville
speed record setting Bluebird car and jet boats from Donald Campbell’s
7 world water speed records until his death in 1967. The exhibition also
uses scale models, photographs and video to detail the lives, successes
and failures of these famous British national heroes.
The
Lakeland Motor Museum may not be a tourist destination to plan all on
its own, but for car enthusiasts
driving the winding
backroads of
Cumbria's Lake District, it’s well worth a detour into Britain’s
motoring past. ©
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