Regional Fairs

Here we focus on three events this summer of interest to textiles enthusiasts

Who can fail to love a country house car boot?

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

Organiser says bookings are healthy ahead of debut and feels there is room for more quality fairs in the area

It’s time for the annual Festival of Cards when 60-plus dealers will head to Junction 24, an events centre in North Petherton, near Bridgwater, Somerset, on Thursday and Friday, March 28-29.

Dealer and organiser will take over the reins of the biannual event but still under the Penman banner

Dealers were out in force to buy from other traders at an annual showground event praised as busy but friendly

The star attaction at Stephen Large’s third monthly antiques fair at the Livermead House Hotel in Torquay on Sunday, March 23, is TV personality Paul Martin.