Regional Fairs

The average total footfall for the annual three-day 'New Forest & Hampshire County Show' held at The Showground in Brockenhurst comes in at a gigantic 85,000 to 90,000.

Fairs organiser run by the Burgoin family started with a single event but now operates at several venues

Midlands-based Richard Burtonshaw, organiser of glass and ceramic fairs under the banner Premier Fairs, is moving south for the second of his three events this year.

The annual Bayfield Brocante is back again on Sunday, June 8, in the parkland around the Grade II-listed 18th century Bayfield Hall, near Holt in north Norfolk.

The two events launched in Kent earlier this year by organiser Paul Ellison of Needful Things Antique Fairs were busy that he has changed to a larger venue.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The Petersfield Antiques Fair is now in its 52nd year since the event’s dawn in the early 1970s.

Dealer duo started online showcase during the pandemic but around 20 traders continue to feature

Sunbury Antiques Fairs has successfully taken over the running of the event staged in the Surrey hills