Showground Fairs

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

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

Organiser’s first event at the Norfolk Showground after taking over from Aztec will be held later this month

Following on from last week’s comments from three fairs and markets organisers on how 2024 has been for their businesses, here is the take from Europe’s largest antiques centre, a fair organiser who is packing them in and a booksellers fairs’ association with a £1m sales figure from just one event.

With new visitors, international buyers returning and a fresh look at events, the mood is upbeat

Organiser IACF is taking over the antiques and collectors’ fairs held for 25 years by the family owned Aztec Events at the Norfolk Showground, a rural location 10 miles west of Norwich.

Event originally put on hold will be restaged from next summer – but the one-dayer will also remain

Traders taking part in North Yorkshire high-end outdoor fair say their customers are sharp and considered

Coming up on June 30 is the annual Sunday Kempton organised by Sunbury Antiques’ Edward Cruttenden, whose bi-monthly market at Kempton Park Racecourse recently featured as one of just two “antiquing” destinations in Qantas’ in-house flight magazine on the Sydney to London route.

The nursery rhyme 'Rain, rain go away' could be the response after the UK experienced in the past 18 months the fourth-wettest period since records began.

Successor event to the Peterborough Celebration of Antiques has plenty of room for expansion

International buyers were out in force among the buyers at the busy IACF two-day event

The Cheshire showground event run by Arthur Swallow includes plenty of conversation starters.

Enjoying the great outdoors was a simple priority for the attendees of the Arthur Swallow Loseley Park Decorative Home & Salvage Show in Surrey, running from May 19-21.

A coronation theme was taken up by some of the dealers at Arthur Swallow Fairs’ three-day decorative home and salvage show at Ripley Castle, near Harrogate.

Barry Fletcher of the Carpet Merchant is an Arthur Swallow regular, making the journey over from Belgium.

Described by organiser Gary Wallis as the “Glasto of the antiques calendar”, the Henley Décor Fair is back at the Henley Showground by the Thames with a four-day packed schedule.

ATG takes a visit to one of the largest fairs in the south of England where buyers come out in force