Regional Fairs

An example of how a high-end fair can work very well in areas where such events are completely unknown is the biannual Enys House Antiques Fair at Penryn in west Cornwall.

Ian and Grahame Wilson of long-running Newcomen Fairs are expanding their events which are held in the Elsecar Heritage Centre, a range of restored Victorian buildings near Barnsley where they also own the 120-dealer Elsecar Antiques Centre.

A mindful quote about glass from the great American writer Tennessee Williams comes in his one-act drama The Glass Menagerie which premiered on stage in Chicago in 1944: “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

Dealer who was invited to organise a fair at nearby estate holds the second edition this month

Debra Scadding and her partner Sue McIntosh took over the running of B2B Events’ two very popular events at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, Worcestershire in January, renaming the operation B2B Fairs.

As Hidden Treasures, Neil Payne organises monthly antique and vintage fairs in Berkhamsted and Haddenham in Hertfordshire, Benson in Oxfordshire and Marlow in Buckinghamshire.

After celebrating 50 years of trading last year, the 'Petersfield Antiques Fair' makes a welcome return to the Festival Hall in the Hampshire town.

Caroline Brown of Rose & Brown Vintage Fairs is launching a vintage event in North Yorkshire.

The next edition of the antiques vintage fair run by Love Fairs at the Kent Showground is on Saturday and Sunday, August 31 to September 1.

Event launched in the north-east becomes latest to be staged at an ever-popular racecourse venue

Steve Cooper of Haddon Events is launching another antiques/vintage fair in the south of England which will run on Sunday, September 29, at the Hertfordshire Sports Village in Hatfield.

Election fever in the UK is behind us but collectors of political memorabilia might vote for a 19th century Spode electioneering jug for sale at the Long Melford Antiques Fair in the Memorial Hall on Wednesday, August 7.

Debut staging of event established in the Scottish Borders encourages more dealers to sign up for next one

Fresh locations in use this year include venue based at former Kent colliery

Norfolk event will make a return to a venue last used about nine years ago as part of a busy line-up

'The Artisan Brocante' was launched last year in the gardens of Grantham House a 17th-18th century National Trust property in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham.

Show held for the first time last year returns at same location and is fully booked

Coming up on June 30 is the annual Sunday Kempton organised by Sunbury Antiques’ Edward Cruttenden, whose bi-monthly market at Kempton Park Racecourse recently featured as one of just two “antiquing” destinations in Qantas’ in-house flight magazine on the Sydney to London route.

After launching last summer with four dealers, the Aldeburgh Art Fair is back this month with five.