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A stallholder was left to sell their wares ‘completely on their own’, after no-shows and last minute drop outs left section of a town’s makers market near-abandoned.

Ramsbottom Makers Market, held once a month, has gained a reputation for attracting visitors to the town with independent businesses selling, food, clothing and showcasing wide and various crafts.

Spread across the civic hall, St Paul’s gardens on Bridge Street and the town’s urn statue, organisers say the market has always been about ‘community, fairness and an ethos of ‘handmade, heartfelt and homegrown’.

However, at last Sunday’s event, all but one of traders due to set up at St Paul’s gardens, failed to show up or cancelled with late notice, which organisers said ‘let others down’.

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