Arthur Swallow Fairs
Arthur Swallow Fairs organise various shows in the East Midlands which are attended by retail buyers, dealers, designers and prop buyers. The organisers' flagship event is The Lincolnshire Antiques & Home Show.

The ‘summer of salvage’ for Arthur Swallow Fairs
18 April 2022Ripley Castle’s website describes a history of persecution, plague, loyalty, social turbulence and recklessness.

Two ‘biggies’ coming up
27 September 2021Dealers will be heading to Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire this month with three days of buying beckoning from the two ‘biggies’.

Fairs and markets: Busy summer on the way
21 June 2021Although some restrictions are still in place for now, many fairs and markets organisers are gearing up for a busy summer to serve pent-up demand.

Arthur Swallow Fairs return for second Beale Park fair down by the river
31 May 2021As live fairs and markets return in strength, Richard Burgoin, director of Arthur Swallow Fairs, is in the midst of his summer season of events.

Swallow starts at Ripley Castle
26 April 2021Swallow Fairs’ first three-day Decorative Home and Salvage Shows this year is the biannual event running at the 14th century Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, from noon on Friday, May 7, to Sunday, May 9.

On your marks, get set to go for fairs reopening
08 March 2021Roadmap means reopening time is getting closer at last but some hurdles remain.

Business brisk as Swallow flies back
06 July 2020The appetite people have for the return of fairs and markets is summed up by Alice Roberton from Arthur Swallow Fairs talking about the specially adapted, fully outdoor Covid-19 antiques and salvage market on Saturday, June 27.

Have a Lincs rummage
06 January 2020Arthur Swallow’s busy vintage monthly fleamarket runs at the Lincoln Showground.

Sessions on sense of style
02 September 2019Pictured is award-winning photographer and interiors stylist Tamsyn Morgans who runs one of the workshops at Arthur Swallow Fairs’ Decorative Home & Salvage Shows.

The dealers’ view at Arthur Swallow Fairs' Lincoln event
15 April 2019“I’ve sold Jesus Christ… could I interest you in St Patrick?” So asked Martyn Watson of Penrith, Cumbria, stalling out in the Epic Centre and keen to shift his statue of Ireland’s patron saint.

Two into one fair will go for Arthur Swallow
15 April 2019Condensing a two-day event into one and moving to a new weekday slot are no mean feats – just ask Arthur Swallow Fairs, which has just launched a new streamlined format. ATG went along to the first edition to view the results.

The overseas buyers at Lincoln fair: ‘We can’t get this range and prices in our own market’
15 April 2019Arthur Swallow Fairs’ Antiques & Home show may not have the moniker ‘international’ attached but the event attracts a strong overseas group of buyers who comb the fair, clutching sheets of shipping firm stickers to identify purchases for collection.

Local loyalists at Lincoln Antiques and Home Show: ‘Fair seems more condensed and lively’
15 April 2019Belinda and Tom Kilduff (pictured below) are Lincolnshire locals and Antiques & Home Show loyalists. They noted how “busy, condensed and lively” the one-day format was.

"I can sell as much in one day as two": Dealers and buyers give their verdict on Arthur Swallow Fairs' new one-day Lincoln format
12 April 2019Condensing a two-day fair into one and moving to a new weekday slot are no mean feats – just ask Arthur Swallow Fairs, which has just launched a new streamlined format.

Three salvage solutions: a trio of upcoming fairs
28 January 2019Buyers are spoilt for choice during May and early June when three decorative and salvage fairs will be running in the UK, all in interesting outdoor settings. Here is a short focus on them.

Swallow dips in to open another salvage event
07 January 2019Organiser launches Malvern fair to run alongside existing venues.

Stand rates reduced as Swallow’s Lincolnshire show becomes four one-day events in 2019
22 October 2018Arthur Swallow Fairs has announced a significant change in the format of its antiques and home fairs held at the Lincolnshire Showground.

Two become one: Fair organisers react as Arthur Swallow Fairs shift to single-day events
22 October 2018Schedule change for Lincolnshire Showground marks a shift in strategy but other organisers are more cautious.

Story of French stove innovator and his burning ambition
28 May 2018From dealers Charlie Bates and Matthew Nellist of Jeffrey and Day comes a story about Jean-Baptiste Godin, a 19th century French industrialist and enlightened innovator.

First Swallow (fair) of spring
30 April 2018The first of Arthur Swallow Fairs’ Decorative Home and Salvage Shows this year kicks off on Friday, May 11, and runs to Sunday, May 13, at Ripley Castle near Harrogate.

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