Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

Go East Vintage was launched in London in 2021 by Louisa Ware and Onur Kurtdere and in the subsequent years their pop-up fleamarkets have included the Hackney Brewery and venues in Stratford, Leyton and Bermondsey.

Following on from last week’s comments from three fairs and markets organisers on how 2024 has been for their businesses, here is the take from Europe’s largest antiques centre, a fair organiser who is packing them in and a booksellers fairs’ association with a £1m sales figure from just one event.

With new visitors, international buyers returning and a fresh look at events, the mood is upbeat

It has been a very encouraging year of new fairs and business launches

Farm buildings and more humble structures can provide ideal showcases for antiques businesses

With more than a thousand traders doing business, Les Puces de Saint-Ouen in Paris is effectively 12 markets in one

Braxton joins newcomers at a market with 32 dealers and a waiting list

Lesley Ayres organises the monthly 20-year-old 'Ilkley Antiques Fair' which she has run since 2019. The next is on Sunday, December 1, at the Clarke Foley Community Hub in the North Yorkshire town.

Four generations of the Bartlett family have farmed Hinton Farm near Yeovil in Somerset.

The hubbub that is the Giant Shepton Flea has been run by veteran fair organiser Sue Ede and her family for nearly 25 years.

Review of an event praised as being casual and inexpensive to stand at but also well organised

Alan Old of So Last Century fair is going all festive with a two-day seasonal market set to run in Dulwich, south London, at the end of this month.

An antiques fair which launched in May at Cheltenham Racecourse got off to such a good start that it is being repeated on Sunday, November 24.

The antiques, collectables and decorative arts fairs run by Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events in the centre of the Hampshire town of Romsey involve just one location but five, inside and outside.

Launched in November last year in the spectacular surroundings of the Grade II-Listed St Cuthbert’s Church in London’s Earl’s Court, the first 'Kensington Vintage Fair' chimed so well with buyers that it has gone biannual.

A shop in the characterful area of the East Sussex town of Hastings known as the Old Town, with deeds that date to 1511, has opened as a small antiques centre.

Andrew Saidi, organiser of PBFA’s 'Christmas Book Fair' in London, is confident that this year’s event will be as buoyant as that in 2023.

Plenty of collectors and dealers of vintage angling kit will be on “the riverbanks” as it were as 36 of them stall out with their rods, reels, cased fish, books, art and catalogues at the National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair on Sunday, November 17.

Etc Fairs’ ephemera fairs run four times annually at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury, London WC1, with the next on Sunday November 24 selling all manner of postcards, manuscripts, maps, prints and plenty of quirky paper items.

Lucy Ryder Richardson is a fan of the Japandi style, a mix of Japanese and Scandinavian pieces in a wabi-sabi meets hygge harmony.