00:00It's really really really humbling for me to be stood here on this very
00:05piece of land with this fabulous piece of water here where my late father broke
00:10his very first world water speed record at over 202 miles an hour. They always
00:15said there was a water barrier at 200 miles an hour and hence unfortunately
00:19that's why John Cobb's boat crashed on Loch Ness. So my father always said he
00:24was the first man to go through what was called the water barrier. He was
00:29extremely proud of the people around him here in Oldswater who helped him in
00:34every single way to achieve that record and to be stood here 70 years on. Well
00:41I'm going to let you into a secret I was six years old at that time so that gives
00:46you my age and I was in a hospital ward having a Kirby grip removed from my
00:52intestines that I'd managed to swallow and I remember the excitement in the whole
00:57ward when it was announced that my father had broken the water speed record here
01:01on those water.
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