Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

The now Grade II-listed Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in east London will reopen its doors this weekend for the first time in 13 years – which is good news also for Go East Vintage, aka Louisa Ware and Onur Kurtdere.

Forget Paddington Bear. Think Winnie-the-Pooh “I am a bear of very little brain…”, whose 100th anniversary this year celebrates the first outing of the gentle bear and his beloved friends including the “small and anxious” Piglet.

Newcomer event has rapidly established itself as a regular fixture in the calendar

Organiser of Kent event makes plea for larger space as dealers struggle to fit into Victorian village hall

Crewkerne centre closes down amid tributes paid to a ‘professional, friendly bunch of traders’

Vintage clothes, accessories, furniture and more sell well at specialist fair in Saltaire

This Easter Clare Smith will be relaunching her shop Vintage by the Sea in Saltburn, her home town on the north-east coast of Yorkshire.

Visit from ‘Queen of Pop’ underlines just how much there is to see in Kent town including art and antiques

News of west London dealer collective holding a pop-up – plus lots more to visit in bustling Chiswick

Back in August 2023 dealer Dave Steel of Tree of Ages Antiques Fairs saddled up and took over the midweek Epsom Antiques Fair run at Epsom Racecourse by the Bayliss family of Continuity Fairs for 30 years.

First Kempton event this year will involve 100 dealers at the racecourse venue

According to the Greeting Card Association, the UK spend on Valentine’s Day in 2024 was more than £51m with around 25 million cards sent.

A recent item on BBC Antiques Roadshow focused on a collection of stereoscopes, some dating to the 1850s.

Judy Berger founded Judy’s Vintage Fairs in Leeds in 2005, after she described a vintage event back then as “less Velvet Underground, more Vera Lynn”.

Indoor event at hall in Cheshire town could expand to outdoors as well as the weather improves

Pudsey Civic Hall in Leeds is the venue on Sunday, February 8, for another of the vintage home fairs run by dealer Lisa Doel of Ginger Biscuit Events,

Monthly event in Bedfordshire kicks off the year with successful staging in early January

Dealers praise the friendly atmosphere of a Buxton event that has been running for nearly 50 years

Focus on businesses based in two towns rated among ‘most desirable’ in the UK by newspaper

In the light of world focus on Greenland, would-be collectors of polar ephemera might head to PBFA member Stuart Leggatt and his website Meridian Rare Books that has masses of it.