WATCH: It's Eddie, steady, go as Stobart fans invited to check out Ludlow exhibition

Paul Elliott, caretaker at Ludlow Library and Museum Resource Centre and a veteran collector of toys and memorabilia of all kinds, is hoping to change that.

He has launched an exhibition, on the second floor of the place where he works, featuring dozens of distinctive green, red and white lorries – or rather miniature replicas of them.

Paul, 55, is no stranger to showing off his collections having previously loaned his James Bond memorabilia to the library for an exhibition that covered two floors, and also Thunderbirds toys belonging to both himself and his now-grown-up children, who have also caught the collecting bug.

But the attraction of Eddie Stobart trucks and memorabilia is less obviously rooted in childhood and popular culture.

Paul said he was simply attracted to the look of the first Corgi model Stobart vehicle that he first bought.

He said: "I started collecting when I first moved to Ludlow, about 25 years ago. It's because of the livery really – I bought one truck, and then the collection just grew and grew. Now every time something Eddie Stobart related comes out I like to get it. I've probably got about 100 now – and I do like to show off my collections," he said.

"I have some of the first ones that Corgi produced, which are quite rare now.

"The larger ones are all Corgi but more recently a company called Atlas Editions has started making the smaller models, and it also makes the commemorative plates as well."

The exhibition will run at Ludlow library throughout the Easter period, Monday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm.