What you're looking at is a 24:1-scale model of one of the largest cranes of the Victorian age - made entirely from classic Meccano. It is the work of former Army Sergeant Peter Goddard, a ...

A crane built in 1915, and which can still be seen today in the port of Genoa, was recreated using a popular model reconstruction system Sometimes events combine to make us eat our words. In June 2010 ...

Meccano is one of those toys with a very strong nostalgia element, involving memories of hours spent bolting together a toy wheelbarrow or a coffee table-size Forth Bridge. But 21st century kids ...