Fairs and Markets

One of the most popular fairs in the Grandma’s Attic seven-venue portfolio across southern England is in Woking.

Vincent Page is launching a second monthly auction room in one of his five antique centres which are currently in Oxford, Sidmouth, Harrogate, Taunton and Bowness-on-Windermere all with the brand title of Antiques on High.

Prestigious Italian fair includes UK firms among the strong international contingent attending this year

Traders taking part in North Yorkshire high-end outdoor fair say their customers are sharp and considered

Victoria event’s early September edition was one of the busiest that Matthew Adams has ever held

Myrtle’s Courtyard on the 2000-acre Hampton Estate, near Farnham in Surrey, is a cluster of Victorian buildings, originally the Hampton dairy farm and milking parlour, which is now used for events.

Coinex, the most important event on the British calendar for many serious coin collectors, opens at the Biltmore Hotel in Mayfair on September 27-28.

An auctioneer who relocated to the West Country after working at a London saleroom for eight years has launched two antiques fairs.

Venerable fair that has been running since 1951 is still a very popular choice and boasts a devoted following

An example of how a high-end fair can work very well in areas where such events are completely unknown is the biannual Enys House Antiques Fair at Penryn in west Cornwall.

Ian and Grahame Wilson of long-running Newcomen Fairs are expanding their events which are held in the Elsecar Heritage Centre, a range of restored Victorian buildings near Barnsley where they also own the 120-dealer Elsecar Antiques Centre.

Modern British trailblazer’s works inspired by a Swiss glacier form centrepiece of event exhibition

A mindful quote about glass from the great American writer Tennessee Williams comes in his one-act drama The Glass Menagerie which premiered on stage in Chicago in 1944: “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

From modest origins, the York event is now the largest antiquarian book fair in the UK