Model moments at Telford meccano exhibition
Meccano-mania hit Shropshire as a range of fantastic models were put on display.
The Meccanuity exhibition at Enginuity in Telford displayed a range of working models, all created by the Telford and Ironbridge Meccano Society.
Displays at Meccanuity included large and small models ranging from giant cranes and steam engines, pattern drawing machines and clocks, all made from the construction toy.
There was also a varied collection of railway breakdown cranes and a more unusual exhibit in the form of Telford and Ironbridge Meccano Society chairman Chris Shute's hand-operated poetry-composing machine which can create strange, four-line poems.
Chris said: "This year's exhibition has gone very well, there has been a wide variety of models and if it wasn't for some cancellations we would've been struggling to fit all the models in."
Meccanuity is now in its 11th year and is one of the largest events of its kind in the UK.
The bank holiday exhibition featured a model by Don Morton, who came from Canada, and had to actually dismantle his model in order to fit it into his suitcase.
Alex Rimmington-Dean, 13, from Wellington, became the show's youngest exhibitor with his robot called Marvin.
Each year at the event, a competition is held to create an unusual model.
This year's challenge was to build a two-wheeled racing vehicle and was won by John Nutall from Leyland, whose clockwork model won in the final race.
train display.
