Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Shouting out an important message is this figure pictured with a hanging sign at one of JOS Events’ fleamarkets at the West Mid Showground at Shrewsbury where the next is on Saturday, June 22.

Inaugural fair at Scottish borders venue also marks a debut appearance for a man obsessed by chairs

Kate Button of Blackdog Events tells ATG that her annual brocante at the Grade I-listed Glemham Hall, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, is back again this year on Sunday, June 23, after a two-year absence.

Brocantes bring a taste of summer to the nation's country houses – here are two to attend this year

Organiser of a series of shows says curation means traders are offering a wide range of items

Former premises rescued as unholy messes are proving ideal for new use as atmospheric settings for antiques shops

An update on the latest antiques fairs in Carmarthenshire and Anglesey

The biannual Potting Shed Brocantes in East Sussex returns this spring.

When Matthew Adams started out as a dealer in the early 1980s, the constant cry from fellow dealers was “there are too many fairs”, he says.