Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

Maxine Stonehill of Pop Up Vintage Fairs popped up in March at the Grade II-listed St John’s Church in Hackney, which has had a £6m restoration and is now a busy music and events venue as well as remaining a working church.

Spotlight on atmospheric venues hosting art and antiques fairs including a new event.

The National Vintage Communications Fair has rebranded itself and is now called RetroTechUK.

York vintage event returns as first to be staged for three years

Taking away a toy car for possible restoration for a young driver is this buyer at one of the biannual Beccles Antiques Markets.

Ripley Castle’s website describes a history of persecution, plague, loyalty, social turbulence and recklessness.

Sunny Bank Mills at Farsley near Leeds has been in the Gaunt family for six generations.

Dealer promises to promote Nottingham specialist fair

The country house car boot season is back, dominated by the mammoth annual boot event held for 40 years in aid of the local Rotary Club at Wilton House.

Claire Hunt is celebrating 25 years working for the fair organiser IACF.

Dealer offers vintage and new design art after more than 30 years in family weaving company

Weather forecasters say that the Easter weekend is likely to be a sizzler and as this is a traditionally mega-busy time on the fairs and market scene there may be cheers all round across the bank holiday. Here is a short snapshot of a few events.

Managing director of IACF William Thomas is building up the momentum to the bumper crowds which are expected this Easter at the two-day 'Peterborough Festival of Antiques'.

News earlier this month of the discovery of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition ship, in the icy waters of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, will surely have made the hearts of dealers and collectors of polar material beat a little faster.

Trade at an antiques and retro shop which opened bang in the middle of the pandemic last year in the village of Wombourne, near Wolverhampton has started to blossom in the last few weeks say the owners of Raven’s Nest Antiques, Mel Jones and Marcus Wortans.

There are many sounds which you might hear in an antiques centre: dealers moving objects around for display, customers talking as they enthuse over the stock and the regular ringing of tills.

Cornish event hosted in historic house and grounds will now be staged twice a year.

Mid-century and modern pieces will feature at Wyke House this month

Launching on Sunday, April 3, in the West Sussex town of Midhurst is Phoenix Fairs’ vintage, antique and militaria fair.

Newmarket and Yorkshire events feature in this round up of fairs news