Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

Two days of brisk trading mark a fond farewell to Peterborough’s Festival of Antiques.

It’s coming up to open season for open-air markets and the popular Beccles Antiques Market is back this month on Sunday, April 30.

Collectors of photography have an eyeful next month in London with three fairs dedicated to the art, both vintage and modern.

Barry Fletcher of the Carpet Merchant is an Arthur Swallow regular, making the journey over from Belgium.

Textile Society’s annual fair is part of a drive to help fund ways of bringing in fresh talent to the field.

The team that launched 'Flea London' originally at Flat Iron Square and now at neighbouring Vinegar Yard at London Bridge are holding a second weekly market.

New organiser of Lomax Fairs says he wants to expand them through new social media, dealers and venues.

Tom Lintern-Mole, co-organiser with John Martin of PBFA’s book fair at Oxford Brookes University on Saturday and Sunday, April 22-23, said he is looking forward to 75 dealers standing.

People watching as well as stall perusing is one of the big attractions of the Festival of Vintage held biannually at York Racecourse.

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.

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

North London event is revived as organiser who used to be involved launches a revamped summer edition

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.

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

Square in front of Walthamstow’s distinctive town hall is venue for organisers’ latest venture

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

Spotlight on some of the antiques and art trade attractions available to increasingly high-spending visitors

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