When Castlecliff Market co-ordinator Clive Ward arrived to find the market's wooden signs trashed and vandalised he could have been forgiven for wanting to throw in the towell.
The market, which began back in 2015, has struggled a bit over recent months with bad weather in particular keeping stallholders and the public away.
So when Sunday dawned fine Mr Ward was upbeat about the day's prospects and was not expecting to be dealt another blow.
The sight that greeted him at the Heads Rd site was dismal.
"Most of our signs were missing and just one badly bent one was lying on the ground," Mr Ward said.