Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

From the wilder shores of a Georgian adjustable joint roaster and a 19th century roasting spit bottle jack to weighing scales, copper pans and ladles, jelly moulds and storage jars, kitchen antiques have a rustic and decorative appeal.

As Gemcap Events, father and daughter Rodney and Nicola Weeks run popular two-day antiques, decorative and art fairs in Bedford.

Dealer duo bring ‘interesting pieces at affordable prices’ to discover in botanic garden surroundings

Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events has added even more of the street antiques and vintage markets held at a dizzying number of locations across southern England, most on Sundays.

Keeping it in the family are Cecilia Maclaren and her mother-in-law Victoria Glaysher, who are regular traders at the monthly Chiswick Antique and Vintage Market.

The Wednesday Truro Antiques and Collectables Market has moved to a city centre location outside Truro Cathedral, with the first held earlier this month and additional dates to be announced.

Mark Prentice of Newgate Art Gallery in Beccles, Suffolk, has teamed up with Anna Bartlett of Albi Art and Interiors in Battersea, London, to host the three-day decorative art event at Anna’s home in Wandsworth.

Firm local to The Traitors’ castle HQ says extra tourists help drive sales

Previewed in this column in ATG No 2759, the Great Antiques Fair is a new high-end event that was held on September 26-27 at Larchfield, an historic estate in Lisburn, County Down.

Focus on one of the two London events that have been announced as October becomes a busy period

Judy Berger launched her vintage furniture and fleamarkets in 2005 at the university union in her home city of Leeds and now runs two there including at Weetwood Hall, a luxury hotel built around a 17th century mansion.

There are plenty of vintage markets in London which are not so well known and one of these is the Salusbury Sunday Market held in north-west London.

The Old Cinema antiques centre in Chiswick has had a big success this year with its month-long pop-up events.

The Durham Antiques Cooperative was formerly a department store in the former mining community of Sherburn Hill, just outside the city.

Decoratives dealers Kay Davies and Amanda Perry are the new organisers of the biannual Wilton Decorative & Vintage Fair.

The organisers of an antiques market that is set to be revived in Winchester are looking to attract more traders.

Another newcomer to the rising popularity of antiques fairs held in garden centres is Elephant Promotions.

Former Christie’s and Sotheby’s generalist John Hudson* travelled to Braderie De Lille, the annual event on the first weekend in September. Here he shares his daytrip diary and experiences

Updates from textiles, vintage fashion and haberdashery fairs

The maps of 19th century cartographer, mapmaker and publisher John Tallis are described on the website of antiquarian map dealership Tooley Adams, a firm set up in 1982 selling original worldwide printed maps from the 15th to the 19th centuries, as “the last of the lavishly decorated and ornamental maps, considered to be works of art as well as geographically accurate”.