A long-lost commemorative plaque marking the birthplace of a famous Liverpool engineer and toy maker is to be reinstated at the city's main train station. Frank Hornby, the brains behind Meccano, one ...

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A long-lost commemorative plaque marking the birthplace of a famous Liverpool engineer and toy maker is to be reinstated at the city’s main train station. Frank Hornby was the brains behind some of ...

150 years after the birth of one of the world's most celebrated toy creators, Google has paid tribute to Mr Hornby with a nostalgic doodle featuring toy trains. Frank Hornby, the inventor of Hornby ...

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 ...

Fans of the Liverpool-born inventor of Meccano and Hornby model railways were today marking what would have been his 150th birthday. Frank Hornby, who became MP for Everton in 1931, was honoured by ...

For decades, one Liverpool factory employed generations and made toys that are now "worth a fortune." The ECHO recently took a look back at unseen photos of the Meccano factory on Binns Road which ...

Hornby invented Meccano and was said to have been inspired by the railway in Liverpool A long-lost commemorative plaque marking the birthplace of a famous Liverpool engineer and toy maker is to be ...