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Swallow starts at Ripley Castle
26 April 2021Swallow Fairs’ first three-day Decorative Home and Salvage Shows this year is the biannual event running at the 14th century Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, from noon on Friday, May 7, to Sunday, May 9.
Ready to take up arms again at Kempton Park
19 April 2021Organiser Peter Binfield is hoping for fine weather and a good turnout of 100-plus dealers at the first of this year’s Vintage & Classic Arms Fairs at Kempton Park on Sunday, May 2.
Events held outside are relaunching after the latest easing of lockdown restrictions
19 April 2021The start of May is likely to be a busy period with outside fairs and markets opening up around England and Wales after a protracted lockdown hibernation. Here is a snapshot of a few of them.
Get on board for a showroom sale
19 April 2021Chrissie and John Masters of The Design Gallery in Kent are offering this fine Art Deco sideboard by Hille at their showroom sale in Edenbridge from April 23-25.
Antiques centre launched in idyllic location after chance meeting with country estate owner
12 April 2021Tony Wittridge is so smitten with the antiques business he is opening in the grounds of Kyre Park, a large country estate at Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, that he is planning a move to the county from Essex.
Dorking dealers prepare to reopen premises as lockdown eases
12 April 2021Dorking Antiques was launched last August by three dealers: Mark Holden, Eddie Hawkins and David Whalley.
Affordable Art Fair: events at cities worldwide to come but it’s online for now
05 April 2021The Affordable Art Fair has announced its live show dates this year in London, New York, Melbourne, Hong Kong and cities in Europe.
Fair powers on at the museum
05 April 2021While the Museum of Power at Maldon in Essex does not yet have a firm date for reopening – to gaze at the original mighty steam-pumping machines – Steve Haddon of Haddon Events can still make use of the site.
Flea London to reopen with 27 stalls on April 17
05 April 2021“We are super-excited to be reopening our Flea London again on Saturday, April 17, after so long and we are planning on 27 stalls and 10 container shops here at Vinegar Yard,” enthused Christian Scrimgeour about her fleamarket held a few minutes from London Bridge Station.
Antiques centre in revitalised former granary battles through to April reopening
05 April 2021After three lockdowns but also a successful auction launch last August in between closures, Graham Hessell will be throwing open the doors once again to his Melford Antiques, Interiors & Lifestyle Centre on April 12.
JOS launches two events which complement the B2B fair schedule
29 March 2021This coming Easter weekend may be quieter than usual but many of us can plan to meet up with family and friends again in the coming weeks and months as lockdown restrictions ease around the UK.
Continuity back after the enforced break
29 March 2021“It’s been heart-breaking to keep cancelling fairs as people are so keen to trade but the good news is that our event in the Westpoint Arena at the Devon Showground, Exeter, is going ahead on Saturday and Sunday, June 5-6,” says Nick Bayliss of Continuity Fairs.
IACF ready to meet the high demand
29 March 2021Will Thomas, managing director of IACF, surely speaks for the trade with his fervent hope that successive pandemic lockdowns have now come to an end.
Northern exposure: Antiques centre branches out from the south to the Lake District
22 March 2021Vincent Page, owner of Antiques on High in Oxford and Sidmouth, has turned his sights northwards.
Hemswell Antique Centres boss shares “crazy" experience of lockdown
22 March 2021“Due to our digital presence with our website, social media and the live virtual shopping tours I have been conducting all over the world my skeleton team of 10 staff have been kept extremely busy.”
Market organiser Sherman & Waterman looks ahead as events are set to return
22 March 2021“I’m counting the days,” said a happy Mike Collins, director of market operator Sherman & Waterman as he ticks off the reopening dates for his antiques and vintage markets, centre and car boot.
Three events scheduled to run in April and May
22 March 2021Updates on the Oswestry Showground, Bath markets and Sue Ede’s Giant Flea.
Clerkenwell vintage fair is latest to keep virtual events going once live ones return
15 March 2021Spring is here (ignore the weather) and fairs and markets are suitably blooming again with the prospect of getting back to business.
Bermondsey: a look on the bright side of life
15 March 2021Silver dealer David Addlestone is a longstanding trader at the Bermondsey Antique Market in south London which is reopening on Friday, April 16.
Sunday means salvage at Drew Pritchard’s regular virtual events
15 March 2021Angela Whittle is one of the 30-plus group who take part in salvage supremo Drew Pritchard’s regular virtual Salvage Sundays.
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