Hey Russel -that's my home town of 26 years you are talking about - spent
many a day picnicking on that beach with my parents waiting for the tide to
come in 8 miles!
I never knew Sir Henry made his famous run there.
Tony Leeming
Series II Alpine
Gabriola Island
British Columbia
Canada
Russell Maddock wrote:
> Speaking of the LSR, I was in Southport, England last week. I went down
> to the beach in the morning to see where Sir Henry Segrave set the WLSR
> in the original Sunbeam Tiger.
>
> The beach was totally deserted and the only sound the wind blowing in
> off the sea. You could almost imagine Segrave's ghost endlessly blasting
> back and forth along the beach. As a dedicated Sunbeam nut I found it a
> very moving sight.
>
> I then went to Lake Windermere to see where Segrave died. He crashed his
> boat, Miss England, there attempting the water speed record. What an
> incredibly beautiful place. If you're going to go in a blaze of glory,
> that's not a bad place to do it.
>
> Russ
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