Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

Destined for the now cancelled Towy Events Christmas antiques and fleamarket at the Carmarthen Showground were two rare Welsh plates from the Llanelly Pottery, which Towy Events organiser and dealer Robert Pugh had planned to take.

B2B Three Counties Showground in Malvern event now confirmed to run this month.

Alison Davis and Alan Old will be running their So Last Century Christmas vintage market as planned at Beckenham Mansion on Sunday, December 13.

As Discover Vintage, Keeley Rosendale has run her well-supported vintage fairs in the north of England since 2009.

Lucy Haywood runs her Country Brocantes in West Sussex, including the grounds of Parham House and at the Daylesford Organic Farm in Gloucestershire.

James Waggott of The Antiques Centre York is a happy chap.

Matthew Adams is holding his first virtual vintage fashion fair, 'Lockdown Frockdown', this Sunday (December 6).

Julian Tatham-Losh, who owns Top Banana Antiques in Tetbury, reports that business is booming.

The Midcentury Modern Shows team of Lucy Ryder Richardson and Petra Curtis are all grounded until next year.

Shipping in the older, literal sense of the word has played a vital role in coping with robust international demand during the current Covid-19 challenges, according to a Wiltshire business.

Quirky might be a way to describe Andrew Blackall’s antiques shop which is both Number 56 and 70 in the High Street, Corsham.

In an enterprising move early last year dealer Lydia Wood launched an antiques trail in Ashburton, on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.

Martin Webster is the e-commerce manager for the Scottish Antique and Arts Centre in Abernyte, Perthshire.

IACF’s Ardingly market was the final major fair held before the new lockdown began in England

Three dealers who stand at fairs and in centres describe how they meet the Covid-19 challenges

Grandma’s Attic Fairs is holding its first antiques and collectors’ event this weekend since lockdown in early March.

Under the current restrictions Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events is still able to run a number of her antiques and brocante street markets held across Hampshire, West Sussex and Surrey.

Dealer says the market for vintage items such as biscuit tins is holding up well

Vincent Page, owner of Antiques on High centres in Oxford and Sidmouth, reports that trade in both shops has been good with “a significant increase in Sidmouth, on numerous days taking more than AOH in Oxford”.

Focus on two events that have been staged successfully and boosted dealer confidence