Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

A private estate in south Herefordshire is holding its first country house charity car boot sale on Sunday, August 4.

For the first time, the London-based Classic Car Boot Sale is taking itself up to Media City in Salford, Greater Manchester on Saturday and Sunday, July 20-21.

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

'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.

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

Long-standing committed dealers made up the bulk of the stalls at 'The Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair'.

Returning exhibitors praise the friendly atmosphere and customer base of Harrogate’s Pavilions fair

We examine why such venues can provide considerable advantages for art and antiques events

High up in the Pennines, above the village of Cowling, near Skipton in North Yorkshire, lies World Rough Stones House.

Go East Vintage was launched in 2021 by Louisa Ware and Onur Kurtdere, with markets in Stratford and Leyton, east London. The regular flea market venue is the Hackney Brewery (High Hill Tap).

Dealer who started in business aged just 17 looks forward to his second edition of racecourse event

Annual fair held at the city’s Assembly Rooms since 1986 starts afresh in Pavilion venue this July

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.

John Robertson, the new fairs secretary of the Ephemera Society, got into the world of collecting ephemera and antique photographs back in the 1980s “due to my interest in local Sussex postcards and topographical views showing social history subjects”.

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

Buyers were out in force early at the 'Petworth Park Antiques and Fine Art Fair', with sales taking place in the first few minutes.

When antiques-hunting in Northumberland, the fine market town of Morpeth is well worth a visit.

The Beehive in Alnwick, which offers the “largest second-hand vinyl collection in the North” has been owned by Mark and Sam Hobrough for seven years.

In use at Ford as a blacksmith’s forge until the 1970s, these days it is known as Old Forge Antiques where you can find gents’ vintage clothes, antiquarian books and much more.

The privately owned Ford & Etal Estates is described in tourism-speak as “one of Northumberland’s best kept secrets”.