Scott Oliver looks back to when the Kiwi speedster tore it up in the Lake District

Built on the steel and shipping industries, Barrow-in-Furness sits at the south-westerly tip of England’s most north-westerly and picturesque county, hemmed into its eponymous peninsula by the Palaeozoic undulations of the Lake District, where Wordsworth once “wandered lonely as a cloud” and artists of all stripes are still drawn: poets, painters and, occasionally, pace bowlers. Despite its kernel of grand red-brick Victorian civic buildings, the town is not quite as lovely as the rest of Cumbria.
In his aut...