Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

The small town of Frome in Somerset features regularly in regional lists of the best places to live in the UK.

Dealers say the ‘beauty’ of choosing older dresses for your big day is you can ‘shop across a range of styles’

Southwold shop moves to Suffolk site nearby where another dealer had traded for 35 years

More than 200 traders descended on the local racecourse for the Newmarket Antiques & Collectors Fair, which has been running for over 20 years.

While Jane Austen thought Bath to be wearying after six weeks, a two-day fair will keep visitors enthralled

A TV casting director who launched a vintage and mid-century fair in March at the Grade I-listed St Stephen’s Church in Hampstead (with another in June) is moving to another ecclesiastical setting on Saturday, July 11, for the third event, also in north London.

Dolls’ houses, these tiny homes and their teensy furniture, create passionate collectors.

As Premier Fairs, Richard Burtonshaw organises two glass and decorative fairs in the UK.

Sanctum Fairs held its annual event at a new Henley venue, Stonor Park.

One of the big antiques love-ins that dominate Love Fairs’ portfolio is the antiques and collectors’ two-day Detling fairs .

Launched last June at Chatham’s Historic Dockyard by a saleroom based in the yard, Medway Auctions, the next regular antiques and vintage fair will run at the No 5 slip at the wharf on Sunday, June 28.

Edinburgh shop owners started with restoration

“You can’t buy happiness but you can buy vintage and that’s kind of the same thing.”

Stephanie Castell and Ben Cooper, of Two C’s Antique Fairs, are coming down the straight for their antiques fair in Shropshire on Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12.

Not many antiques fairs run for five days but the regular antiques fair held in the market town of Kingsbridge in south Devon does just that.

Cherish Vintage is staging brocante events in Kent and across two sites in Midhurst this summer

Make a note in the diary about The Brocante Barn at Forstal Farm at Lamberhurst, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent.

Key events for dealers in and collectors of antique and vintage textiles are the Textile Society’s two annual events: one in Manchester on Sunday, June 14, with 60 dealers and the other in London in October.

Two fairs have been launched with 40-50 traders at each taking advantage

If the weather’s good you can’t beat the atmosphere at an agricultural county show which will often include antiques and vintage spots.