Fairs & Markets (print edition)

Uncertainty still affects fairs but antiques centres are benefiting from extra visitors

Updates from two events taking place in the south of England.

Norfolk event is eagerly awaited by enthusiastic customers starved of fairs open to public

Updates from four events taking place around the UK

Contemporary Art Fairs’ schedule of live events in 2021-22 involves three racecourse locations in southern England: at Sandown Park in Surrey, and the Royal Windsor plus Newbury in Berkshire.

Shropshire is a fertile county for antiques centres and shops.

Organisers prepare for events in Worcestershire and Shropshire including new fairs.

Man down. Prone and looking as if he had fainted on parade, this model of a guardsman is being carted unceremoniously away from the South of England Showground at last month’s IACF Ardingly.

The duo pictured fist-bumping right were at the Classic Car Boot Sale in King’s Cross, central London, in 2019.

Portobello and Golborne Markets are now running on Sundays as well as the Saturdays throughout the summer until August 11.

Despite a last minute move to a new site, the Henley Décor Fair at the end of May was a big success, said organiser Gary Wallis.

Lewes is well known to antiques and vintage-hunters.

The planned 30-stand Designer and Makers’ Fair on July 17-18 at Charleston Manor, near Lewes in East Sussex was cancelled at the beginning of July.

“I’m expecting a 50-50 split from the exhibitors who follow my fairs and dealers local to the area”, said Nick Bayliss, talking about his new annual Festival of Antiques at Cheltenham Racecourse.

Former Edinburgh Woollen Mill turned into antiques market with more than 40 dealers

Three updates about events taking place in Hungerford, Charlwood and the East End of London

After much trepidation around the launch of her monthly outdoor brocante in Dorking, Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs finally saw it happen on Sunday, June 20.

One of the longest-running niche markets in London has reopened post-lockdown and trader numbers are rising slowly, says Bridget Pettecrew, organiser of the Charing Cross Collectors’ Market in the arches below Charing Cross Station in London.

Although some restrictions are still in place for now, many fairs and markets organisers are gearing up for a busy summer to serve pent-up demand.

All exhibitor slots are filled as the Adams fair keeps fingers crossed for July opening.