Fairs and Markets

Over the past decade the buyer profile has widened as fossils and minerals become decorative objects

Two dealer friends from Rutland who met at a vintage fair where they were both exhibiting are now launching their first event in Lincolnshire.

Antiques dealers Marylyn and Ray Wood took over the 30-year-old biannual Three Counties Antiques and Fine Art Fair in 2020 and held their first staging as Castlewood Antique Fairs in September 2021.

Alexa Robins, organiser of AFC Fairs’ big antiques and vintage event at the Royal Cornwall Showground, is very excited by news of a new fair she’s been asked to put on.

Antiques furniture dealer Philip Crosthwaite’s popular monthly antiques fair in Norwich will feature Richard Goddard, who sells antique vintage tools for a worthy social cause.

Inaugural Lomax-organised Southwold event could be joined by another high-end fair also in East Anglia

Market and fair organisers have told ATG they are bolstering security following a spate of recent thefts targeting the jewellery trade.

Pictures on sale at the burgeoning event depict warm and more usual seasonal days

The Cotswolds Vintage Fairs has been run annually with various curators in August for 13 years at the village hall at Toddington, near Broadway.

Antiques Trade Gazette has recently reported on a spate of thefts at fairs and markets around the country, including at our own event.

A setting with lots of water next to valuable books may not seem an obvious fit but it was a successful match

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.