Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

Thirty years ago organiser Matthew Adams launched his antiques fair held at the Royal Horticultural Halls.

Dealers Neil Honor and Jonathon Pegg run Catesbys, an interiors shop, from their home in the village of Exton, Rutland.

Barry Fletcher specialises in vintage rugs and comes over regularly from Belgium to stand at the 50-dealer monthly Bath Vintage & Antiques Market.

Dealers’ collective now to be run by nearby garden antiques firm after owners retire.

Due to circumstances beyond his control antiques dealer Spencer Swaffer very much regrets he will be unable to give his previously announced talk at the Decorative Living Fair at Eridge Park in Kent.

Two upcoming annual specialist fairs both running on Sunday, May 12.

The Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair celebrates its 10th anniversary on Sunday, May 12, at the 50-trader summer fair in the sumptuous Art Deco interior of the Freemasons’ Hall in London.

A listed Victorian malthouse in Stroud formerly owned by the Whitbread Brewery is home to the Malthouse Collective which also runs fairs.

The annual 'Decorative Living Fair' will stage its 14th outing on Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, at the beautiful location of the park near Tunbridge Wells.

Queen star Brian May is also a huge Victorian photo fan.

Holly Graham holds her monthly Upmarket Fleamarket in Norwich on Saturday, May 4.

One of the largest boat jumbles in the UK is likely to attract increased numbers of boat owners, boat lovers and collectors of nauticalia on Sunday, May 12.

Organisers looking for an unusual spot at which to hold a fair might consider the setting alongside an outdoor swimming pool.

Edward Cruttenden of Sunbury Antiques is launching a biannual Sunday antiques market at Sandown Park Racecourse to run alongside the bi-monthly Tuesday market he has held there since a year ago.

A country house car boot to raise funds for a newly opened specialist equestrian centre in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, will run at the 800-acre Isle Estate at Bicton near Shrewsbury on Sunday May 12.

Launched two years ago at a Victorian mansion in Surrey by local online antiques dealer David Steel, the Tree of Ages Antiques Fair will be held on Sunday, May 12, at Robert Denholm House in Nutfield.

Arthur Swallow Fairs’ Antiques & Home show may not have the moniker ‘international’ attached but the event attracts a strong overseas group of buyers who comb the fair, clutching sheets of shipping firm stickers to identify purchases for collection.

Throughout May, Antiques On High in Oxford will have a window display to support a new book by local author and ex-dealer Sylvia Vetta.

Belinda and Tom Kilduff (pictured below) are Lincolnshire locals and Antiques & Home Show loyalists. They noted how “busy, condensed and lively” the one-day format was.

“I’ve sold Jesus Christ… could I interest you in St Patrick?” So asked Martyn Watson of Penrith, Cumbria, stalling out in the Epic Centre and keen to shift his statue of Ireland’s patron saint.