Entrepreneur Donald Sidebottom has sold the Lakeland Motor Museum at Holker Hall in the Lake District to Winander Leisure.

Winander proposes to relocate the museum’s collection of unusual vehicles and rare automobilia to new premises at an unused industrial site – also owned by Sidebottom – in Backbarrow.

Sidebottom said: “The collection has outgrown the available space and the timing of an already agreed amicable separation from Holker Hall has been finalised.”

The existing premises will close at the end of October 2007. Details: www.lakelandmotormuseum.co.uk

Photograph: Donald Sidebottom and Winander director Les Micklethwaite