Crowds gather to see Campbell's Bluebird return home

Crowds gathered to welcome Donald Campbell's Bluebird vessel as it returned to the Lake District, 57 years after the pilot died in a crash on Coniston Water.

The seaplane wreckage was recovered and rebuilt in 2001 by Tyneside engineer Bill Smith.

After a legal battle it was transferred to Coniston's Ruskin Museum.

Bluebird was collected from North Shields on Saturday morning and was welcomed with applause and cheers when it reached Coniston later that day.

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