Fairs and Markets

Antiques and vintage street markets proliferate across the UK, particularly in the summer.

Northampton’s Monday to Saturday market has had to resort to a temporary location in the Commercial Street car park during the £8.5m renovation of the town’s historic market square.

The lawns at the front of Lotherton Hall, an Edwardian country house at Aberford near Leeds in West Yorkshire, will be buzzing with the sights and sounds of a vintage weekend on Saturday and Sunday, August 12-13.

A charming 18th century five-acre walled garden in north Norfolk is the latest in the lengthening portfolio of fairs in interesting venues organised by Suffolk-based Blackdog Events.

Last year Adam Game launched his monthly antiques and vintage street market in the Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted.

Stags Head Events is taking over the biannual antiques and vintage fair at Lamport Hall near Northampton organised for about 15 years by Antiques2Go.

This form of drinking vessel, with handles and lobed edges to the top of the bowl, would have been passed around the table.

Carolina Valdés Vignoli of Carol Tresor concentrates on collectors’ pieces of mineralogical interest and shipwreck pottery. She is preparing an exhibition of minerals in September at the LAPADA fair in Mayfair.

'Antipodum, nobis, incognita': how a great southern land is labelled (“the Antipodes unknown to us”) in one of the first mentions in print.

Most of the exhibitors at the spring edition of the biannual antiques fair held in the enchanting antiques-laden Provençal town of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue come from the south of France with a couple from Italy and Belgium.

The organiser of the revived north London fair now hopes to expand the event with more dealers and a greater range.

'The Farm, Isle of Skye', a 1973 watercolour and pencil on paper by John Nash (1893-1977) is among the highlights at LAPADA’s Pavilion at The Game Fair.

New fair is set to use Midlands agricultural exhibition centre venue that will be familiar to many visitors

Tribal Art London (TAL) is to take place in person this autumn thanks to the organisers of The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair stepping in with a venue.

New summer art fair to fill the void left by Masterpiece gains promising feedback from exhibitors.

A look ahead to the new PBFA fair in a renowned town for book-lovers.

AS Fairs’ new event in the Cotswolds boasted star visitors but was also underpinned by strong sales

The return last month on a sunlit June day of the annual Church Street Antiques Fair in Marylebone after a four-year absence was hailed as a cracker – with a call for this event to be a more regular occurrence.

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