Fairs and Markets

Last year the Ephemera Society celebrated 50 years of holding its fairs, run for many of the biannual events by the long-running former chair, Valerie Jackson-Harris.

High footfall and strong sales make for another successful edition of the annual event The Northern Antiques Fair

The popularity of BBC’s award-winning Gone Fishing, Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse’s long-running TV show in which the amiable comedians talk angling and friendship, is part of a wider media focus on angling and its many benefits.

‘Bring me sunshine at Ribble Valley Fairs’ ran our headline in ATG No 2744, announcing dealer Angela Whittle’s launch of a biannual garden, home and salvage show to run at Preston’s Longridge Showground in May and September this year.

An early wooden coffee grinder is among the items on offer at The Harrogate Decorative, Antiques and Fine Art Fair.

Having organised his antiques and vintage fashion fairs for nearly 40 years from his living room, Matthew Adams is opening what he describes as a “proper, grown-up physical office”.

Visitors from overseas filtered through to the mezzanine level of Evolution London, Battersea Park, above The Decorative Fair to see Tribal Art London.

Standholders at the latest Decorative Fair report strong demand for good-quality objects

From the wilder shores of a Georgian adjustable joint roaster and a 19th century roasting spit bottle jack to weighing scales, copper pans and ladles, jelly moulds and storage jars, kitchen antiques have a rustic and decorative appeal.

Among the hot topics of conversation between art and antiques dealers at Frieze Masters earlier this month (in between discussions on what museums were spending and which super-wealthy collectors were in town) was whether to red dot or not.

Like father, like son. Antiques dealer Mark Goodger has welcomed his son Jake into the business and they exhibited at their first fair together as colleagues at Battersea’s The Decorative Fair.

The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair welcomes new and returning exhibitors this autumn.

As Gemcap Events, father and daughter Rodney and Nicola Weeks run popular two-day antiques, decorative and art fairs in Bedford.

Dealer duo bring ‘interesting pieces at affordable prices’ to discover in botanic garden surroundings

Latest British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery wins praise from standholders for an ‘enormously busy’ edition

‘I try to buy something with a little magic’ says Dutchman who deals in fine English period furniture

Hansord Antiques was founded in 1972 by David Hansord, joined later by his son John. Over the years it has traded from a number of premises including originally in the centre of Lincoln on Castle Hill.