Mystery as Canary stall’s Norfolk Show marquee signing vanishes

A business selling Norwich City merchandise said it had been left red-faced after its marquee signing went missing.

On The Stall City borrowed a tent from the Community Sports Foundation for the Royal Norfolk Show at the end of June, after its own marquee had blown away in high winds.

But when director Andy Bowles returned to collect it from the Norfolk Showground on the edge of Norwich it was nowhere to be seen.

“Its exasperating, but it’s also really embarrassing,” he said.

On The Stall City, which sells Norwich City surplus kit in aid of the Community Sports Foundation, operates out of The Forum, in Norwich.

Mr Bowles put up the tent a week before the show, held on 25 and 26 June.

“I got a phone call from the showground to say the tent had blown away,” he told the BBC Radio Norfolk breakfast show.

“We went down there and there was very little of our bright shiny tent.

“The winds were just phenomenal that weekend and it had taken all the material off and twisted all the metal.”

The show finished on Thursday and when Mr Bowles returned on Sunday it had gone.

Show organisers, the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association, said it was “incredibly sorry” to hear what had happened.

It said: “The show team have worked closely with the Community Sports Foundation team to assist with the hunt for the missing marquee.”