Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

Dealer duo win praise for new shop hosting 25 traders across two floors in a former furniture store

This splendid image depicts Horace Brown, a former president of the Piscatorial Society.

IACF’s first outpost in Wales was established last year when the organisers took over Continuity Fairs’ biannual antiques fair in Builth Wells.

Old Spitalfields Market had one of its best days ahead of the Easter holiday weekend.

The Ledbury Collective in the so-named design quarter in the attractive Herefordshire town was opened last year by Sarah Baldwin.

“Unfortunately, Paxton House won’t allow us to chop down any historic trees to add more marquees,” joked Seppe Anthony, co-organiser at Glam Racket Events.

Colin Richards is professor of prehistoric archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands on the Orkney Islands.

South Queensferry, west of Edinburgh, was named last year by The Telegraph as the most beautiful town in Scotland.

This vintage duck model is on advertising duties for the annual Beccles Antiques Market run since 2009 by dealer Kate Lee.

Every spring and autumn for the past 10 years Francophile dealer Sharon Dallas turns her home into an antiques shop .

Second Llandudno business gets off the ground

A young antiques dealer who specialises in vintage watches has opened a shop in the north Wales town of Holywell, in Flintshire.

Natalia Rawley is a passionate antiques-hunter-gatherer and shares her loved possessions at home in Wiltshire with her four sons.

The centenary of the late queen’s birth on April 21, 1926, will be marked by the opening of an exhibition in the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace.

Dominating the skyline in the Staffordshire city of Lichfield is the only medieval cathedral in the UK with three spires.

Shift from racecourse to motor-racing venue also gives traders opportunity to drive a sports car

Christian Scrimgeour of Flea London in Vinegar Yard and Flat Iron Square is returning to canalside Hackney Bridge for her permanent weekend fleamarket.

Commercial airliner parts once destined for the scrapyard are now being upcycled by a Suffolk firm.

Judy Berger of Judy’s Vintage Fair, which runs vintage furniture and fashion fairs and fleamarkets across the UK, with a focus on London, is launching something unusual: The Kensington Botanical Market.

Ahead of a major two-day postcard collector festival, a dealer explains the draw of the most popular types