Regional Fairs

Dealers who had planned to stand at the Antique Home & Vintage Fair in York have been attempting to receive a refund for deposits paid to organiser Richard Cawood after the event was cancelled.

The long Easter Weekend this April is packed with art and antiques fairs taking place around the country. Here we pick out a few highlights from the calendar.

Trade day at the decorative fair is particularly welcomed by dealers when times are more challenging

Dealers look back at the huge Peterborough event now holding its last showground venue staging

Described by organiser Gary Wallis as the “Glasto of the antiques calendar”, the Henley Décor Fair is back at the Henley Showground by the Thames with a four-day packed schedule.

A Georgian treen searce is among the highlights available at The Cotswolds Decorative Antiques & Art Fair.

Judy, Lady McAlpine is looking for more vintage traders to take space at two events in Henley this summer.

Thirty dealers will be spreading out on the ground floor and in the grounds of Enys House, Penryn, near Falmouth in west Cornwall at the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs on Saturday and Sunday, April 1-2.

Alex Robins of AFC Fairs is a busy woman. She kicks off her showground scene on Easter Friday and Saturday, April 7-8, with the first of the biannual antiques and collectors’ fairs which she has run at the Wadebridge Showground in north Cornwall for 15 years.

Revived Woking event proves a hit with dealers who say the organisation is still a strength

Organiser of Devon event that has run out of room for dealers launches second fair in Tiverton

Held at the Bath & West Showground in Somerset for many years, the annual Festival of Cards has moved to a smaller location nearby.

Young fair organiser keeps very busy by running three events near Newark under Red Fox banner

Not only does Paula Duggan run Little English House, a business selling antiques and items created from antique fabrics, she organises an interiors fair in Howden, near York. And she is also opening a shop in the market town.

Couple already running four branches take on Dunster event to boot

Mikaela and Roger Boon are all set again for their upcoming Wilton Vintage Fair on Saturday, February 25, at the Michael Herbert Hall in the Wiltshire town of Wilton.

Racecourse event launched by a veteran fair organiser after demise of one of the fairs at the same venue

The Chester Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair is an important moment in the calendar for collectors in north Wales and the north-west of England where there are few major collector events to choose from.

At this month’s 'Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative Antiques & Fine Art Fair', Elaine Phillips Antiques, a returning exhibitor, offers a pair of 17th century high-back oak chairs featuring finely carved details.

Back among the ferns in the Norman Foster glasshouse at the National Botanic Garden of Wales on Saturday and Sunday, January 28-29, will be 40 dealers including Richard Bebb who specialises in Welsh art.