Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

London event organiser says many visitors post-pandemic restrictions are new to antiques

A dealer who launched an antiques centre in 2007 in a Suffolk town has made some alterations including changing it to a shop.

A roundup of news and events from around the fairs world

Organiser announces 2023 launch of another decorative home and salvage event

Chris Brown, co-organiser of the ever-expanding Grandma’s Attic Fairs, is on a roll.

Postcards are going to be on sale for the first time at the Ephemera Society’s fair on Sunday, December 4, at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury, London.

Venue clash means Malvern Flea is off but Detling is a definite B2B destination

Edward Cruttenden of Sunbury Antiques is looking forward to November 20 and the last monthly antiques and interiors fair of the year he runs at Sandown Park Racecourse, near Esher.

A dealer who acquired a long-closed angling shop is bringing a Swedish touch via Suffolk to the annual National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair.

Specialist event focuses on a popular period when ‘some truly original ideas’ developed

If horology is your passion then two events coming up will prove timely.

Taking place in Carmarthen at the United Counties Showground on Sunday, November 13, is the antiques and fleamarket which was run for many years by dealers Robert and Carol Pugh but is now organised by the showground itself.

The biannual Heathrow Aircraft Enthusiasts Fair has been attracting collectors for 30 years and is now run by Carl McQuaide.

The fairs run by So Last Century stand out from the regular traditional antiques format

The three-day fair welcomed renowned photojournalist for a swish magazine showcase.

Samantha and Richard Payne-Withers run two antiques centres in Bridport, a Dorset market town which offers quite a choice of antiques and vintage shops.

Lucy Burnett is a dealer at Market Cross Antiques in the Somerset town of Somerton, near Yeovil.

Organiser of Wembley and Cheltenham events takes over.

Dealer Chris Watt opened Salisbury Antiques Centre nearly 30 years ago originally as a trade warehouse and despite upheavals down the years still believes "it’s well worth doing if sometimes all over the place”.

Mike Collins, the popular director of Sherman & Waterman which runs the weekly antiques markets in Covent Garden and Spitalfields – two of the busiest and best known markets in London – is as ebullient as ever.