Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

When he launched his midweek antiques fair in the Northumberland market town of Hexham in 1991, Colin Caygill told the manager of the Wentworth Leisure Centre where it was held that “he would give it a go for three or four months”.

Owners of a rapidly expanding chain of shops turn their attention to opening a saleroom in Somerset town

Textile Society fair is good business for dealers but it also acts as a fundraiser for student bursaries

In November 1915, Captain Wilton John Rix of the 6th Bedfordshire Regiment wrote from France to the East Suffolk Gazette with an understated and moving plea for a relief from the war’s monotony.

Two popular fairs are running in November and December in the Suffolk village of Long Melford which also offers three antiques businesses as an extra draw for buyers to part with their cash in a pre-Christmas splash.

International buyers were out in force among the buyers at the busy IACF two-day event

The growth in toys and collectables is related to the age of buyers and the items they remember from their own childhood, auction houses say.

Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events increased her tally of antique and vintage street markets in southern England earlier this year, launching in Kingston and Cranleigh, both in Surrey.

Business partners look back at how their events and the market have evolved since their fairs launched.

Alan Old of So Last Century Fairs has been talking to ATG about his ambitions as well as giving news of a new fair to be launched next year.

All that David Bennett asks is that you don’t call him a ‘leg’ man.

Offering an impressive line-up of stallholders including Antiques Roadshow expert Mark Hill, a new vintage fair is being launched in west London.

The Cheshire showground event run by Arthur Swallow includes plenty of conversation starters.

An antiques and vintage fair which is held in one of the most attractive garden settings in the country is set to blossom over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, November 4-5.

Lighter Club of Great Britain holds fair open to both members and non-members

Increased private buying plus overseas trade purchases boost the huge annual extravaganza of the York National Book Fair.

Jane Alexander, organiser of the Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs, is ruminative but positive about her monthly events.

Dealer Robert Pugh is bringing a collection of stoneware saltglaze pots by potter Michael Mosse (b.1951 in Yorkshire) from the 1980s onwards to the biannual Antiques in Tents.

Collector starts event for contemporary, vintage and antique examples in spiritual home of British glassmaking

Annual west London extravaganza heads a look at some of the specialist fairs coming up