I arrived at Park Road this morning to find that the tool shed door had been well and truly broken open and the window of the wendy shed had been popped out. BUT nothing had been taken – not even the electric shredder or the edging shears or the copious amounts of netting.
A crime isn’t a crime unless it is reported, so I phoned 101 expecting to hear the usual “what do you expect leaving things in the open…” A police car and two constables arrived within the hour, appeared to take the incident seriously and put a call out to SOCO as there is a good chance of recovering finger prints from the multi-tool that was left behind and the acrylic wendy shed window.
My son has volunteered to make me a new door, so off to Wickes tomorrow to get a few packs of T&G
Allotment Life 
Sorry to hear this. 😣
How awful! Good they didn’t steal anything though. Hopefully the Wendy Shed will be as good as new soon.
Bad news. Same thing happened to mine a year ago. One tool taken and door smashed up 😠
My sympathies and how annoying. I can understand theft but wanton vandalism is just mindless. We get both on our site periodically, often during the school holidays, but so far my shed has never been touched. xx
Fingers crossed that your shed continues to be invisible to thieves and vandals. With all that’s going at the site presently, I don’t believe this is a random act or that children/young adults would be strong enough to bend a screwdriver shaft and the blades of my edging shears in their attempt to break the door. Nice to know that the door put up a good defence 🙂
Sorry to hear this. It still seems to be a common problem for allotments. I really want a shed on my plot. Inwont keep anything of value inside and will likely leave the door unlocked because the vandalism is as frustrating as them actually taking something.
Thanks Richard. What’s an allotment without a shed? It’s like bread without butter – wrong and sad. Get a shed! I chose the post title deliberately, this wasn’t a random act of vandalism.
I’m so sorry to hear this. What a mean thing to do. I have a tiny shed, which I keep shut but unlocked, so far so good but I know that vandalism can happen at any time.
I once had two of my hens stolen – weirdly both were found a mile or two away several weeks later. Turned out a couple of lads had taken them, kept them on someone else’s allotment, but then either got bored or couldn’t cope. Luckily my friend had an allotment on that site and recognised the hens. I felt very lucky indeed!
Lovely blog youu have here