Regional Fairs

Every Friday since the early 1970s, the Corn Hall in Cirencester, a building at the heart of the town’s life since the 19th century, hosts an antiques and collectables market.

Grandma’s Attic Fairs will be very busy on Monday, April 1, with two of the organiser’s most popular fairs running on the same day.

The Norfolk Antique & Collectors’ Fair has been running for 24 years at the Norfolk Showground, near Norwich.

Judy, Lady McAlpine needs more antique and vintage traders to sign up for her vintage festival held in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support at Fawley Hill, near Henley, from Friday to Sunday, May 17-19.

With one hall full and the other getting very close, IACF counts down to its new Midlands two-day fair

Organiser and dealer whose previous experience was putting on a 1990s gig tries running an antiques fair

For its 35th edition the Bath Decorative Antiques Fair can boast 11 new exhibitors.

Silver item with intriguing inscription linked to notorious lengthy legal battle will be offered at Hampshire fair

The small town of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire is the perfect pitstop for antiques and vintage buyers, particularly the trade.

Charles Dickens spent a great many chapters of his life in Kent, and had much to say about the Medway towns including Faversham, where he described “the queer little market square... the lop-sided little town hall with its big-faced clock and supporting pillars forming a little arcade, in which probably the merchants of Faversham do congregate”.

Focus on two events at the start of next month that offer an array of options for distinctive decorations

Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events has added an 11th event to her portfolio of markets in Surrey, Hampshire and west Berkshire.

Blackdog Events is confident its new fair at a Norfolk racecourse is in the running to be a success.

For Emma and Steve Cooper of Haddon Events, their calendar is a whirlwind of events in Essex, Hertfordshire and Greater London including antiques and vintage fairs, vintage fashion fairs, classic car and country shows and a community street event.

With Helen and Alan Yourston handing on their Malvern events, we take a look back at the story so far

B2B Events has handed over the running of its fairs held at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern to a newly formed company, B2B Fairs, owned by Debra Scadding and Sue McIntosh.

Fairs may be hit by snow and other weather hazards but stallholders and intrepid buyers try to carry on regardless.

English-born dealers living in France are coming over to stand at the Malvern Flea Fairs which is good news, not least as they offer stock not seen on the market before, says Helen Yourston of B2B Events.

Words like ‘excellent growth, full house and waiting lists’ are music to any fair organiser’s ears.

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