Royal Mail is issuing a set of 12 stamps to celebrate the world of Hornby Model Railways. Frank Hornby, the inventor of Meccano, produced his first clockwork Hornby Series trains in 1920, followed in ...

YET AGAIN I am taken back to my childhood days and how many of us boys remember waking up on Christmas morning to find a Hornby train set or a Meccano set or both under the Christmas tree? Well I ...

The search engine Google is celebrating the 150th birthday of visionary toy maker Frank Hornby, whose model railways, Meccano sets and Dinky toys are still being played with by children today. Born in ...