Fairs and Markets

Like so many other organisers, Donny Mann of Love Fairs is delighted to be back running fairs after such a long absence.

Nine months after the last Shepton Flea was held at the Royal Bath & West Showground the market returns on Sunday May 30.

Capacity has been reached for the upcoming Newmarket Antiques & Collectors’ Fair at Rowley Mile Racecourse on Sunday June 6, says organiser Paul Kelly.

Updates on three fair organisers returning with events in the next few months

An actor and theatre director who turned to dealing when work dried up during the pandemic is standing at his first antiques fair on Sunday, May 23, at the Dorking Halls in Surrey.

Following the closure earlier this year of the Pickering Antiques Centre in North Yorkshire, which opened in 2018, manager Mark Witherington has found a new home in the town for some of the dealers.

Michael Mills and his family, the new owners of the now renamed Antiques & Retro Antiques Centre at Hemswell Cliff, launched their business on May 1.

Joy O’Meara of Jay Fairs is disappointed but sanguine about the news that the parish hall in the Oxfordshire village of Benson will close for refurbishment from June to October, thus causing her to cancel her monthly antique and vintage fairs at the venue.

The restrictions operating during the latest lockdowns are continuing to ease in countries including France and the Republic of Ireland.

Art glass dealers look forward to the Festival of Antiques.

Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs is back with her fully booked socially distanced antiques and decorative art fair at the Dorking Halls.

Organiser tells ATG why the south-coast city is a great place for a new PBFA event

Antiques on High Cumbrian branch now open

The return of fairs as lockdown restrictions have eased has been a welcome boost for dealers, event organisers and buyers.

This calendar lists a selection of forthcoming specialist fairs and markets around the world.

The antiquarian booksellers’ associations of Switzerland, Austria and Germany have joined forces to launch a new online rare book fair.

Organiser of event by the Thames is buoyed up by record number of stands confirmed

Items belonging to the late comedian and entertainer Nicholas Parsons (1923-2020) are being unveiled at The Buxton Decorative Antiques & Art Fair in Derbyshire – the first ‘in person’ event of its type to take place in England this year.