A GROUP of 13 postcards showing the disaster on Windermere in 1930 after Sir Henry Seagrave broke his own world water speed record is included in the September 4 sale by Loddon Auctions of Newbury.

Seagrave lost his life after a crash in Miss Windermere II on June 13.

The cards are expected to sell for £80 to £120.

The September 8 to 9 sale at Station Road, Cockermouth, has a watercolour painting of Torver Beck, Coniston, by Ian Potts which is expected to make £60 to £80.

A watercolour by R. Martin Tomlinson, a member of the Lake Artists Society, called Langdale Pikes across Lake Windermere, should make £40 to £60.

Also included in the Cockermouth sale is a Lake District watercolour by William Heaton Cooper who lived from 1903 to 1995.

It is dated 1989 and should sell for £1,000 to £1,500.

The September 7 sale by Roseberys of London expects £800 to £1,200 for an unattributed mid-19 th century oil painting called Waiting for the Ferry Boat Windermere.

This sale also has a pen and ink on paper sketch attributed to the Dalton-born portrait painter George Romney, who lived from 1734 to 1802.

It is called The infant Shakespeare and should make £600 to £1,000.

The September 22 sale by Forum Auctions, of Queenstown Road, London includes a manuscript book called Notes of a Tour in the Lake District, May 1863 which has 37 engraved views of the Lake District.

It is the work of L. E. Follett, of Topsham, Exeter, who visited Windermere, Bowness, Hawkshead, Coniston, Grasmere and enjoyed refreshments at John Ritson’s Wasdale Head Hotel.

The book should sell for £400 to £600.

The same sale expects £200 to £300 for a letter written by art critic and social visionary John Ruskin who spent his later years at Brantwood, overlooking Coniston Water.

The letter was sent to Dr John Brown who lived from 1810 to 1882.