Big kids shell out for €50,000 at toy auction

Collectors paid more than £35,000 (€52.000) for Hornby and Meccano toys and memorabilia at auction today.

Dozens of photographs, old adverts, instruction manuals and toys dating from the early 1900s were rescued from the Meccano factory in Liverpool when it closed in the 1970s and went under the hammer this morning.