Kent

One of the big antiques love-ins that dominate Love Fairs’ portfolio is the antiques and collectors’ two-day Detling fairs .

Launched last June at Chatham’s Historic Dockyard by a saleroom based in the yard, Medway Auctions, the next regular antiques and vintage fair will run at the No 5 slip at the wharf on Sunday, June 28.

Cherish Vintage is staging brocante events in Kent and across two sites in Midhurst this summer

“The Russians opened fire on our right, on our left, and then in front...

Make a note in the diary about The Brocante Barn at Forstal Farm at Lamberhurst, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent.

During the First World War aviators of the Royal Flying Corps suffered from the cold over the Western Front. A solution was the ’fug boot’.

Antiques trails are proving to be a popular way of promoting the shops and centres in a particular place or region.

Estimated at £500-1000, a “scarce” 10 bore military flintlock musket instead hammered at £9200 in the February 25 auction at Kent saleroom C&T (22% buyer’s premium).

An annual street braderie held in the Kent coastal town of Deal will be organised by volunteers working with the chamber of trade.

Founded in Spain in 1875 by brothers Fernand, Jules, Léopold and Jacques, Lacloche Frères became one of the great French jewellers of the Art Deco period.

Prices for Hornby 0 Gauge clockwork railway toys have been rather flat for quite a few years now.

In ATG No 2738 we featured Wiltshire-based Natalia Rawley who sells online antique and vintage items she finds in her house clearance business.

From an elephant gun team to a double-decker and general on a hobby horse, good prices are still paid for collectable toys.

Robert Tucker lives in the Grade I-listed Restoration House in Rochester with his partner Jonathan Wilmot.

You could say that Emma and David Mann are flushed with the success of their small antiques business, a former public toilet, in Hastings Old Town in East Sussex which celebrates its 11th year in business.

What’s not to love at a couple of Love Fairs’ events which are held at two racecourses in southern England?

I was interested to read the article by Joan Porter on Madonna’s visit to Margate – at the invite of Tracey Emin who does so much for the town (Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres, ATG No 2731).

Newcomer event has rapidly established itself as a regular fixture in the calendar

Organiser of Kent event makes plea for larger space as dealers struggle to fit into Victorian village hall