Dan Randall
Western Thunderer
Vandals broke into the school which is the venue for Market Deeping Exhibition in Stamford overnight last night.
Layouts which had been set up have been trashed as have Trade stands.
The biggest layout there was our layout O finescale layout Helmthwaite and Chapel Lane and it was one of the layouts trashed along with all of our stock.
We are told that two persons were apprehended.
I am personally devastated.
Among the things in that wrecked hall is 20 years worth of kit building.
John K
The show is clearly not going ahead.
John - I'm absolutely sickened to hear of this mindless vandalism to your models and the models of the other affected parties.
I would be incandescent with rage if stuff I'd spent months or years working on was trashed in seconds, by some brain-dead waste of oxygen. I'm glad to hear that two scumbags were apprehended though - I just hope they get sent down for a very long time (about 20 years seems fair, given the time you've spent on your models). They'll soon come to realise that "playing trains" would have been more fun than playing "Mummies and Daddies" with a 6' 4" "lifer"....
Regards
Dan