One of Tim Hulme's many scale models on display at Bebington Central Library. Yesterday I travelled by train to Bebington, as a friend and fellow-member of Riverside Writers is currently exhibiting his large collection of hand-made scale models of castles, chateaux and historic buildings. Tim Hulme began making models as a boy, when his father would bring home huge cardboard tubes onto which silk fabric would have been wound at the Macclesfield silk mill where his father worked. Later, as a young adult, he was touring a grand European house when he saw a scale model of it and declared, "I want one of those!" He's been making them ever since. This is Tim's first exhibition, and a lot of planning has gone into the display. Nearly all the models have a photo of the actual building beside it for comparison, and there are information sheets offering historical backgrounds. The models are very fragile. Just transporting the models safely to the l