Antiques Centres

The repurposing of buildings for use as antiques centres and sometimes fairs has seen a revitalisation of historic buidings.

The Times recently ran a feature on seven of the most atmospheric towns in the UK in which to do your Christmas shopping for one-off gifts, maybe combining this joysome activity with a weekend break. Here are some art and antiques options in two of them, Ludlow in Shropshire and Frome in Somerset.

Owners of a rapidly expanding chain of shops turn their attention to opening a saleroom in Somerset town

Two popular fairs are running in November and December in the Suffolk village of Long Melford which also offers three antiques businesses as an extra draw for buyers to part with their cash in a pre-Christmas splash.

Another business launches near Stratford-upon-Avon offering 45 traders

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The owners of an antiques centre in a large leisure and shopping village near Stowmarket in Suffolk are opening a second branch nearby just two years after the first one welcomed its first buyers.

A new antiques centre has opened in a former Baptist chapel in Newark.

A tribal art specialist, who started his career as a schoolboy, is one of 38 dealers at this thriving Dorset centre.

An addition to the businesses on the Ashburton Antiques Trail is Reuben Lenkiewicz Fine Art & Antiques Gallery, which is run by the son of the charismatic, renowned and prolific artist Robert Lenkiewicz who died in 2002.

Saul Greenstein started trading in 2001 and has been dealing from Grays antiques centre of Mayfair, London, for the past 15 years.

Two new dealerships have joined The Blanchard Collective of Froxfield, Wiltshire: Peter Cosby, as The Madison Gallery, and Sarah Howard, a local artist and dealer.

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

How love has been represented in jewellery through the ages was the topic of discussion at Grays Antiques in London.

Couple already running four branches take on Dunster event to boot

A new antiques centre is opening in the small town of Castle Cary in south Somerset. It is just five miles from Bruton, now a hub of contemporary design, antiques businesses and the global art dealership Hauser and Wirth Gallery that draws visitors from around the world.

Up till now antiques dealer Philip Crosthwaite has belonged to a happy band of dealers who run their online businesses from home.

Four dealers received a warm welcome as they joined Alfies Antique Market from the now closed Hampstead Antique Emporium.