For the 11th year, from March 26 to 28, Harrogate-based Galloway Antiques Fairs move to Hampshire for their fair at stately Stansted House near the village of Rowlands Castle, not far from Havant.
Some 30 dealers are spread out among some of the main state rooms on the ground floor and below stairs in the servants quarters and medieval crypt.
Regulars returning to the event include Wilsons of Worthing, London jewellery and objects of art dealers Shapiro and Trivette from Cambridgeshire, while newcomers are Hannah Antiques from Oxfordshire with 18th and 19th century silver and Books Illustrated from Wiltshire with a stock of first edition children’s books illustrated by the likes of Rackham, Dulac and Heath Robinson.
Admission is £4.
Meanwhile, grass roots grow strong at an English stately home
THESE are heady times for fairgoers, what with Maastricht, major events in New York and the BADA and Olympia in London. But life goes on, and thrives, nearer the all-important grass roots.
