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Last month Stuart Triggol celebrated a notable landmark: 50 years working for auction house Greenslade Taylor Hunt.

Kirkland Tellwright was Clerk of Course at Haydock Park Racecourse in Lancashire for 24 years, until retiring in March 2024.

Charles Hanson has made a bold move to strengthen his presence in north Norfolk by taking on the whole team previously working for Bishop & Miller in Glandford.

This may – or may not – be of interest but I thought that readers might wish to share some of their own experiences in the antiques trade and that this is the place to do it. Here is mine.

As Field Dog Fairs, antiques dealer Charlotte Williams launched an antiques weekend 13 years ago at Southwell Racecourse in Nottnghamshire.

Three of the youngest members of Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s prove that a love of antiques and auction house work is alive and well in the next generation

Lennox and Sue Cato tell us why they are making a move from Kent to the Cotswolds

Dr Stephen Martin first encountered Archibald Knox in a New York bookstore in 1990.

Auctioneer and valuer Clive Stewart-Lockhart has written a new biography of one of British Art Deco’s foremost figures - his great aunt Mary Stewart Lockhart, better known as Betty Joel (1894-1985).

Michael Cooke, known to many as ‘Mapman Michael’, passed away on March 14 aged 79.

Sussex and Kent saleroom Gorringe’s begins a new chapter this month under full family ownership and new management.

Derek was born on October 14, 1942, to Gladys and Harold.

The museum gallery created to house the extensive collection of one of the most active British medal collectors of recent times is to close.

The Bath Decorative Antiques Fair returns to The Pavilion venue from March 13-15.

“To the inhabitants of Wyndham Road, an unremarkable cul-desac of bungalows in Andover in Hampshire, Mary Stewart Lockhart, the white-haired old lady in number 5, must have seemed equally unremarkable… None of them could have realised that between the World Wars she had been one of the leading furniture makers, designers and businesswomen in the country.”

Susan Pickett, a retired community nurse from Cornwall, is vice-chairman of The Daniel Ceramic Circle. Her own collection of items made by the H&R Daniel manufactory began when she was looking for a plate to fit a space on a dresser. One piece soon became three, which later became more than 200.

To say that retired police officer Brab Hallowes has a passion for collecting would be something of an understatement.

Christopher Proudfoot is the president of The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS).