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A corner of The Antiques Store in Grantham, opened by Field Dog Fairs’ Charlotte and Frankie Milford in August.

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It adds to their seven-venue antiques and collectors’ fairs line-up in Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.

So how is the The Antiques Storedoing four months on, I asked Charlotte.

“The centre is very popular with the dealers, ” she said, “so we are soon to be opening the lower ground floor in addition to the ground and first floors already in use, when we will have 44 dealers here with a mixture of cabinets and units.”

She added: “We have dealers from around the country at the centre and most recently a British husband and wife team who live in France who trade as French Legacyand whose specialty is Art Deco lighting, have taken space with us.” theantiquesstore.co.uk