Meccano Mornings 2025 (Day 2)
Report written by Chris Warrell
Saturday 1 November 2025
Museum of Croydon
Croydon
I received an e-mail out of the blue from Jen Kavanagh, a curator at the Museum of Croydon, regarding the idea of SELMEC running a couple of Make It With Meccano sessions in October half-term. It required only two of us on each day (although a spare person would have been useful).
The museum is in the same building as Croydon Library, with its impressive clock tower, right in the centre of town, but a little way from the main shopping area.
The Meccano workshop went very well with a (just about) manageable number of children arriving for the drop-in sessions. Luckily, one or two members of staff were on hand to help out — they also brought us hot drinks!
One of our Make It With Meccano workshop participants with her model and certificate
Wednesday was busier — at one point we had 11 children around the table at the same time. Pretty good since we have only four complete Meccano sets! We were located within the Children’s Library on the Wednesday, but on the following Saturday we were on a mezzanine near the museum, but in a quieter location with no casual passers-by, so far less busy.
Thanks to Santiago Plicio and Brian Leach for helping out.