Fairs and Markets

Second edition of the event involving two combined fairs benefits from extra space at new venue

Huge Lincolnshire business is among the firms that are confident for the future after a buzzing year

The fair held at a folk art musuem proved useful for dealers to encounter regular clients as well as new faces

The repurposing of buildings for use as antiques centres and sometimes fairs has seen a revitalisation of historic buidings.

Prices frozen for pre-booked pitches at Kempton Park Racecourse for fourth year running

One of the dealers taking part in the inaugural Classic Antique Fairs staging at Birmingham’s NEC has gone on television to promote the show.

The Times recently ran a feature on seven of the most atmospheric towns in the UK in which to do your Christmas shopping for one-off gifts, maybe combining this joysome activity with a weekend break. Here are some art and antiques options in two of them, Ludlow in Shropshire and Frome in Somerset.

Among the highlight sales reported at the Art & Antiques Fair Olympia was a Japanese bronze of a carp.

Mother-and-daughter team start new event in Ireland with hopes for several others across the island

Dealers hail return to Midlands venue a year after closure of popular Antiques for Everyone events

To help raise funds for a flood appeal at the West Midlands Showground in Shrewsbury, local fair organisers Emma and Oli Jones, aka JOS Events held a special ‘yard’ sale there earlier this month.

Running in Chichester on December 3 is Grandma’s Attic Fairs’ antiques and vintage fair at the Westgate Leisure Centre.

The Vintage and Very Nice Market is held monthly in the pleasant surroundings of the 18th century Assembly Rooms in Chichester.

Valerie Jackson-Harris is stepping down as chair of The Ephemera Society, a position she has held since 2008.

A first edition, first impression presentation of WB Yeats’ first book, Mosada (1886), was among the standout sales at the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair.

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”.

The second instalment of FAB Paris, the fair resulting from the merger of Fine Arts Paris and La Biennale, will be staged this November but for the first time it moves from its previous home at the Carrousel du Louvre.