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Firm interest in film cameras

05 May 2025

Specialist dealer attending photographic fair tells ATG about the latest trends in this market

Latest glass extravaganza graces West Midlands venue

05 May 2025

Glittering displays of glass will be on show at the upcoming Premier Fairs’ dedicated event at Himley Hall near Dudley in the West Midlands on Sunday, May 18.

IACF closes Stoneleigh fair branding it ‘not financially viable’

29 April 2025

International Antiques and Collectors’ Fairs (IACF) has announced that its biannual Celebration of Antiques held at the National Agricultural and Exhibition Centre (NAEC) Stoneleigh will not be returning to the venue following its event at Easter.

First of 2025’s Britannia Medal Fairs coming up

28 April 2025

As this year commemorates VE and VJ days, there are likely to be even more collectors and dealers than usual converging on the first of 2025’s biannual Britannia Medal Fairs on Sunday, May 11.

Arthur Swallow's event at Ripley Castle set to pull in the crowds

28 April 2025

May show at Ripley is always the best attended, says organiser ahead of the 85-exhibitor three-day offering

Get hooked on angling with the help of this specialist vintage tackle event

28 April 2025

More people than ever are getting hooked on angling, says the Angling Trust which reported that in 2023-24 as a result of participation events more than 43,000 people tried fishing for the first time.

Sussex brocante joins Kent event on organiser’s roster

21 April 2025

Julia Prentice of Cherish Vintage is launching her Midhurst Brocante on Saturday, May 3, at the Old Library in the West Sussex town.

Inside and out: street market also runs in the civic centre

21 April 2025

Who doesn’t love an antiques street market? Plenty of buzz and lots to buy makes these a winning formula, so much so that they sometimes expand.

Former footwear designer stepped into fairs world

21 April 2025

Last week in this column we mentioned dealer Gerard Coles who told us that among the fairs and events that he exhibits at, the Spotlight Market in Hackney “keeps me young”.

IACF takes on Builth Wells event

14 April 2025

Welsh showground fair run since its launch 25 years ago by family business Continuity is changing hands

Fairs news in brief: events in Essex and Newcastle

14 April 2025

Ken Besford of Durham Promotions NE, organiser of the Great North Decorative Antique Fair, is heading down the straight for the spring edition (Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27) of the triannual event he launched last year at Newcastle Racecourse.

Exhibitors happy to travel to Enys House

14 April 2025

Launched in 2019 as an annual event but biannual since 2022, such is its appeal to both dealers and visitors, the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs held in the Georgian interior of Enys House runs on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27.

Attractive setting awaits exhibitors

07 April 2025

Sam and Gary Halford of Stags Head Events took over the antiques and collectors’ fair held at the Grade I-listed Lamport Hall in Northampton in 2023.

Two fairs in a day: ‘We must be mad’

07 April 2025

Grandma’s Attic organiser duo will be running events in Hampshire and Dorset on the bank holiday weekend

Another year in Provence

07 April 2025

One of France’s most beautiful small towns, L’Isle-sur-la Sorgue, near Avignon in Provence, hosts the first of this year’s biannual antiques and brocante fairs from Friday to Sunday, April 18-21.

Full line-up and waiting list for Southwold event

07 April 2025

Up in the much-visited and still dreamy Suffolk town of Southwold - one of the first towns to gentrify, along with Whitstable in Kent in the 1990s - Anthony Keer of Lomax Fairs is looking forward to Easter.