Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

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.

Inaugural vintage fashion event at fresh Westminster venue offers extra space and will boast 80 dealers

The Tavistock Vintage and Salvage Fair takes place in the Devon town’s Butcher’s Hall, next to the Pannier Market, with the next on Saturday, November 23.

The sole antiques and vintage shop which has traded in the Gloucestershire town of Wotton-under-Edge since 2015 is closing its doors after Christmas.

An east London event which the organiser describes as “a vintage fair that’s worth waiting for” is having its fourth outing this year in two halls at its regular spot, the Grade II-listed Wanstead United Reformed Church.

Biannual medals event organised by Mayfair auction house allows standholders to exhibit free of charge

Buyers planning a Christmas shopping spree might include a trip to Suffolk’s many antiques centres and shops including something unusual: Boule-In’s annual festive decorative event.

The ritual of clock-changing is upon us again when British summer time ends on Sunday October 27 and we all get an extra hour in bed.