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Dear Explorer ALTHOUGH I live, very happily, “beside the seaside, beside the sea” these days, I am still very much a DFL (‘down from London’) and I’m a very regular visitor back to the city of my birth – which just happens to be the chosen theme of this issue!

We were inspired by our love of the BBC’s BAFTA-winning sitcom The Detectorists to tackle the joys and pitfalls of treasure hunting – and of course many of the very best finds end up on show in London (the spectacular Sutton Hoo treasure from Suffolk being one of my favourite exhibits at the British Museum for example).

Treasure hunting in London itself is a bit of a minefield, so to speak. Not just for the occasional unexploded bomb that still turns up from the Blitz – but also because the area around the Thames is so precious a historical resource that it is hedged around with extra protective laws. Go to the Port of London Authority website at www.pla.co.uk and type ‘digging’ into its search engine for everything you need to know about staying safe and legal on the foreshore.

Although I now live a good 70 miles from London, I find that hopping back up to the Capital for the day is a lot less trouble than it used to be commuting daily from my outer London home into the heart of the city where most of its magazine and newspaper offices are based.

With Greater London covering more than 600 square miles, attempting to travel from East to West or North to (God forbid) South of the River can be quite an expedition in itself. Which is why it can seem all too much to the occasional visitor.

It would take several lifetimes to get round everything that London has to offer – but it would be a shame if the big picture put anyone off sampling the small and exquisite miniatures that are London’s many individual ‘villages’.

That’s why, for this spring issue, we’ve chosen to concentrate on just one borough, blossomy Kensington & Chelsea.

Though of course you shouldn’t be put off making forays elsewhere in London too. And as you zip hither and yon, give thanks for the beautiful, ground-breaking, multi-coloured blessing that is the London Underground Map. God bless Harry Beck, the genius who, in 1933, devised this ingenious way to make the sprawling metropolis comprehensible at a glance. A true London hero!

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There’s nowhere like London when you’re looking for antiques – but it’s best to plan ahead to make the most of your time

What a Capital Idea! tle Antiquexploring ‘village’ nucleus where you will quickly feel at home once you arrive and where you can use the extensive public transport system, or your car – if you enjoy driving at an average speed of 10mph – to satellite out when the temptation to visit some of the March and April events mentioned here becomes too great.

In springtime, the London to head for is definitely Kensington and Chelsea, with three major antique fairs on the horizon: the Chelsea Antiques Fair and the BADA Antiques and Fine Art Fair in March and – just a hop away across Chelsea Bridge – The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in April. There are plenty of classy local antique stores to explore too. And if you fancy the thrill of buying at auction, two of the big three London auction houses are in or around our chosen boroughs. Christies is on the Old Brompton Road while Bonhams, Knightsbridge, can

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WHEN ANTIQUEXPLORING in London – whether on holiday or as a day trip – the one thing you can’t complain of is lack of variety. Even fellow-Londoners turn tourist if they pop up in a place that is only familiar as a name on the Tube map. Amid alien street patterns and customs that are quite different from ‘back home’, even those who are born and bred in their own London ‘village’ can feel like out-oftowners.

At one end of the scale, the capital offers discreet emporia where one exquisite piece sits in splendid isolation in a huge window, without a price tag because... my dear, if you have to ask you really can’t afford it! At the other end, there is the bustling cockney market where a “Is this your best price?” can earn you a smile, a wink and a bargain!

But it’s a big place at something like 28 miles across, so the thing to do is to create your own lit-

Sloane Square makes a good starting point for exploring Kensington and Chelsea. In the foreground is the 1953 Venus Fountain, a bronze statue by sculptor Gilbert Ledward who was born in Chelsea in 1888 (d.1960) 6 March-April 2016 Antiquexplorer

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Items in the royalty-themed foyer display at the Spring Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea Park include a superb framed bead-work embroidery of the Royal Coat of Arms, c.1860, price: £895. Also a huge early 19th century, carved armorial (left). Available from David Levi, price: £7,800

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This solid oak Wainscot ‘caqueteuse’ Scottish chair by Anthony Dalziell is signed and dated ‘February 1744’. Available from Thomas Coulborn & Sons at the BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair this March March-April 2016 Antiquexplorer 7

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Items in the royalty-themed foyer display at the Spring Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea Park include a superb framed bead-work embroidery of the Royal Coat of Arms, c.1860, price: £895. Also a huge early 19th century, carved armorial (left). Available from David Levi, price: £7,800

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This solid oak Wainscot ‘caqueteuse’ Scottish chair by Anthony Dalziell is signed and dated ‘February 1744’. Available from Thomas Coulborn & Sons at the BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair this March March-April 2016 Antiquexplorer 7

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‘If you fancy the thrill of buying at auction, two of the big three London auction houses are in or around our chosen boroughs’

Alarmingly this important oil painting was almost thrown into a skip! ‘Looking towards Wasdale, the Lake District’ painted in 1868 by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) is in Christie’s Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art sale on the 23rd March. Estimate: £50,000-80,000 17th and 18th century taster, globular mug and thistle-shaped coffee cup.

This selection of London delftware comes up for auction in The Liane Richards Collection of British & European Ceramics sale at Bonhams on the 13th April. Estimate: £700-1,000

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ANTIQUEXPLORING IN MARCH If you’re not familiar with this area, let’s make Sloane Square our Mission Control Centre. Just a few minutes walk from Sloane Square is Duke of York’s Square, home to the modernist Saatchi Gallery. But from 9th to 15th March it is also home to the British Antique Dealers Association Fair. It is the annual showcase for BADA members, with all fine art and antiques on offer carefully vetted beforehand by the Vetting Committee. The £10 admission charge includes a BADA Handbook and re-admission pass; or £15 for two people.

Again starting from Sloane Square, you can walk or take a ten-minute bus ride west along the famous Kings Road to Chelsea Old Town Hall which, from 17th to 20th March sees the return of the Chelsea Design-Antiques Fair. This has been running for more than 60 years and now boasts, “18th-21st century Art, Design, Antiques” (although they also say the odd 12th century statue may turn up!) Opening at noon on the Thursday, dealers put in a long afternoon, closing at 8pm, then the fair runs from 11am-6pm on Friday and Saturday and 11am-5pm Continued on page 10

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be found just a brisk 15 minute stroll North-east in Montpelier Street, just yards from Brompton Road.

Specialist sales this spring include Victorian, PreRaphaelite & British Impressionist Art on the 23rd March at Christies, while Bonhams has The Liane Richards Collection of British & European Ceramics for sale on the 13th April.

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There’s an intriguing exhibition at the V&A opening on the 16th April: Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear charts the progress of underwear up to the present day.

From left to right: the ‘Princess Louise Jupon Patent’ cage crinoline, c.1871; an advertising poster designed by Hans Schleger for the Charnaux Patent Corset Co Ltd, c.1936, courtesy of the Hans Schleger Estate; Silk, satin, lace and whalebone corset, from the early 1890s

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PIMLICO ROAD SW1 ‘You shouldn’t miss out on the upmarket antique riches of Pimlico Road, just a five-minute walk south from Sloane Square’

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Continued from page 8 on Sunday. Register at www.penman-fairs.co.uk for a free e-ticket.

Even further away, and for those of you who don’t like too much age to their ‘antiques’, the Haggerston School Midcentury Modern Show is on Sunday 13th March – just a short stroll away from Hoxton Underground Station.

ANTIQUEXPLORING IN APRIL Starting back at Mission Control in Sloane Square, it’s just a short bus ride south across the river to Battersea Park and The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair, which fills the park’s huge Evolution event space from Tuesday 19th to Sunday 24th April. The first fair to specifically unite the antiques and interior design trades, Battersea Fair has been running since 1985. Admission is £10 on the door (cash only) and includes a catalogue that allows free re-entry.

Coinciding with the 90th birthday of the Queen (21st April), this fair will take on a regal flavour as exhibitors are being asked to search out relevant works of art for a Royalty-themed foyer display.

With the South Kensington museums only one Tube stop away from Sloane Square, many Antiquexplorers are sure to be tempted by the infinite riches of the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Entrance is free, but admission is £12 (concessions available) to the upcoming exhibition running from 16th April to March 2017. Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear is an intriguing look at what we wore under what we wore, from the 18th century to the present day. From corsets to crinolines, brassieres to boxers, drawers to liberty bodices, garters to suspenders, if you had any lingering lacunae in your lingerie lingo, prepare to shed them now! Undies created by designers from Paul Poiret to Stella McCartney will lounge louchely alongside the stiff home-made stays of our modest great-grannies.

ANTIQUEXPLORING ANYTIME You know all about the Kings Road, which stretches all the way to Fulham. But at the same time you shouldn’t miss out on the upmarket antique riches of Pimlico Road, just a five-minute walk south from Sloane Square. Billing itself as ‘London’s premier design district’, Pimlico Road and the surrounding streets are jam-packed with antiques from Louis XIV to 20th century classics, as well as interior design stores and chic eateries – on Saturday mornings it even has a farmers’ market!

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Howe’s range of modern Staffordshire pottery looks great on a traditional dresser, from Howe, 93 Pimlico Road

Architettura Trumeau Cabinet by Piero Fornasetti, from Gallery 88, 86-88 Pimlico Road

Large terracotta Compton pot (above) and an early 18th century Swedish pier mirror, both from Rose Uniacke, 76-84 Pimlico Road

Coade stone tablet depicting Bacchanal putti, stamped ‘Coade Lambeth 1792’. £12,500 from Hawker, 95-97 Pimlico Road

French Toro sculpture in enamelled ceramic by Georges Jouve, from Portuondu, 90-92 Pimlico Road

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Anyone wishing to carry out metal detecting on the Thames foreshore west of the Thames Barrier up to Teddington requires a permit from the Port of London Authority.

Metal detecting or digging is not normally allowed east of the Barrier

Down with the ’Larks Everyone hopes to pick up something special when Antiquexploring. But what if you do, literally, pick it up? Is it finder’s keepers? Not necessarily; there are rules to follow. And if you want to go treasure hunting in the capital city, there are even more – just ask a mudlark!

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Not treasure perhaps but a fascinating array of cheap pottery shards, fragments of clay pipe, rusty ship’s nails and water-worn glass

WERE YOU CAPTIVATED – as we were here at Antiquexplorer – by Mackenzie Crook’s gentle BBC sitcom The Detectorists? If your appetite has been whetted and you think you might want to get into the old metal detectoring lark yourself, the National Council for Metal Detecting lists local groups and offers advice on matters such as the law, insurance, permissions requests to landowners etc.

But, as you’ll know if you watched, there are the good guys among metal detectorists (not detectors, please – that’s the beeping machinery) and then there are the bad guys. Good guys like Lance (Toby Jones) and Andy (Crook) love and understand the history of their area and set up all the proper permissions and ownership agreements with the landowner (who has legal claim to any archaeological artefacts found) before spending a long, peaceful afternoon patiently scanning green pastures, with perhaps just a harvest of 1980s ring-pulls – or Civil War grapeshot – to show for it.

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precious metals and what they can get for them on the black market and to hell with the historical record. But the bad guys, thankfully, must look over their shoulder all the time for the good guys, landowners, local archaeology societies – and the police who enforce the Treasure Act 1996.

(For England, Wales and Northern Ireland that is; the law is different in Scotland.)

Be aware though that, if you ever come across anything of possible antiquity while you’re out and about – whether it’s treasure or not – you should be one of the good guys and contact the Local Finds Officer to register it under the Portable Antiquities Scheme. These are all listed at finds. org.uk – which also has lots of useful information on the whole subject of found antiquities.

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The Treasure Act gold or silver coin doesn’t count as treasure but if two or more are found together then it does; while all metal prehistoric finds count as treasure if any part of it is precious, or if two or more items are found together.

Confused? Well, let the coroner decide. Which sounds sinister until you realise that coroners have been officers of the Crown (hence the name), empowered to make ‘inquests’ or enquiries into various important matters since the Middle Ages.

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This romantic-sounding piece of legislation tidies up the old rules of Treasure Trove, which hinged on whether a stash of valuable coins was someone losing the contents of a purse, deliberately burying a ‘hoard’ or tossing a coin into what, back then, was water, for good luck or religious faith.

Under the 1996 Act, treasure is any found object of 300 years old or more that is over 10 per cent precious metal (or is found with said item). A single

The law says that if you find something – or realise you found something in the past – that may count as treasure, you must report it within 14 days to the local coroner, who will decide if it is treasure or not. Your local Finds Liaison Officer will help you with this. If it is, it must then be offered initially to a nominated museum at the price agreed by the independent Treasure Valuation Committee (though if the museum turns it down, it comes back to you).

If you’re in London, where central areas at least have been continuously occupied for two thousand years, the ground beneath your feet may well hold, if not treasure, then certainly items of historical interest. Many of these will end up in the Museum of London and that’s where London’s Finds Officer, Kate Sumnall can be found.

If you have items you think may be of historical significance email flo@museumoflondon.org.uk with photographs of your finds in the first instance. “The Portable Antiquities Scheme is gradually building up an incredible database of our history that is accessible to everyone,” says Kate, “So please, if you find something that you think might be significant, let a Finds Liaison Officer know about it.”

One of the most spectacular London discoveries was made, not by archaeologist or detectorist, but by a workman with a pickaxe. In 1912, during the excavation of a cellar at 30-32 Cheapside (now under the department stores of One New Change), an old wooden box was discovered that yielded more than 400 items of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery. An identifiable heraldic badge on an intaglio, together with signs of damage from the Great Fire, narrows the date when this treasure was last seen to between 1640 and 1666 – which suggests the owner lost track of it or died some time during the Civil War, without revealing its whereabouts.

The majority of the Cheapside Hoard, as it is now

Exhibits in the British Museum’s Hoards exhibition until 22nd May include: two ceramic pots of silver Roman coins found near Selby, Yorkshire (above left); 3rd century AD silver coins from the Beau Street hoard, found in Bath in 2007 (above); Iron Age gold coins found inside a hollow flint in Westerham, Kent in 1927 (far left). And, just to show it can happen, in 1928, a boy dug up this Roman money box, silver coins and spoon in his back garden in Muswell Hill, North London!

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known, is held at the Museum of London, although it’s not currently on display you can marvel at the images on their website. The Museum is still well worth a visit. Plus, on 2nd or 16th April, you can book a tour of the archives to see what’s been discovered during the exciting current excavations of the Elizabethan playhouses where William Shakespeare performed.

Most of the rest of the Cheapside Hoard is in the British Museum and if you’re visiting on or before 22nd May, you get a chance to check out its free exhibition Hoards – which demonstrates that people have been burying treasure all over England ever since the Bronze Age!

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What makes London special in many ways – indeed, what made London London in the first place – is the river that runs through it. HM The Queen owns Britain’s foreshore from high to low watermark (which means metal detectorists on the beach must get their permit from the Crown Estate). But it administers the Tidal Thames jointly with the Port of London Authority and – such is the historical importance of the area – metal detecting or digging of any kind on the foreshore is prohibited.

However, you can get involved, legally, through the Thames Discovery Project which has run guided walks and community archaeology since 2008. The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) website at www.mola.org. uk is a great source of information on what they themselves are currently excavating and how you can get involved.

Events listed include a City walk on 18th March, run by the National Maritime Museum, taking you through Samuel Pepys’ London to coincide with its current exhibition at Greenwich; or a guided walk along the Thames foreshore from Cannon Street on Easter Monday 27th March (bring your wellies for this one!)

Less formally, you are permitted to beachcomb, at your own risk, during low tide on the south side of the river only. But that’s beachcombing – picking things up from the surface – not digging or even scratching for them. It takes two years of beachcombing, registering all your finds with the Museum of London, before you even stand a chance of getting a rare official Mudlark licence, which you will

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These gold and enamel aglets (ends for laces, serving the same function as the plastic ends on modern shoelaces) were found in the same area over a couple of years and each was reported to Kate Sumnall at the Museum of London: “Individually they are all wonderful,” she says, “but as a group they are even more important, suggesting an ornate hat or other item of clothing, even though the fabric has not survived.”

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A bejewelled pomander or scent bottle, a gold, enamel, emerald and diamond salamander brooch and a watch made of Colombian emerald are just a few of the Elizabethan and Jacobean treasures of the Cheapside Hoard in the Museum of London collection. The Egyptian agate cameo, though, has an even longer history: thousands of years old before it ever reached London, it may depict Cleopatra. The British Museum also has a selection of choice pieces from the Cheapside Hoard (left).

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need even to use a trowel to just gently scrape the surface.

Check out the Port of London Authority website for lots of useful information on the law and safety.

If you haven’t got two years to spare, you can join the tourists picking old stuff up from the shingle beneath Shakespeare’s Globe in Southwark. This can yield a satisfying array of cheap pottery shards, water-worn glass from old beer bottles and rusty ship’s nails. Plus fragments of clay pipe – lots and lots of fragments of clay pipe. You may need someone to point out the white tubes with tell-tale black centres at first – but then they’re everywhere. Anything of any antiquity or rarity should of course be reported to the Finds Officer at the Museum of London, as before.

Cheeky cockneys One thing you are almost guaranteed never to find on the Thames foreshore is a ‘Billy and Charley’ – even though people once thought that this was where they all came from.

In the 1850s, when mudlarking was the name given to a more generalised scavenging, a couple of savvy Cockney mudlarks around Shadwell Dock cottoned on to the market for medieval lead objects that were sometimes found in the river. William Smith and Charles Eaton realised that if they cast their own for tuppence and sold them for half a crown they could make their fortune!

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This oil painting, by George Chambers Jr (b.1830) demonstrates just why the Tidal Thames continues to be such a rich source of finds from ages past. It was sold at Bonhams for £1,625 in 2011. Over the past few years, Bonhams have also seen items come up for auction that were themselves found on the Thames foreshore at some point in the intervening centuries. Five late 15th/early 16th century table knives sold for £375; the 16th-century spoon sold for £450; The collection of prehistoric hand axes, offered for £600-800, is registered with the Museum of London. The Victorian brass dog collar, sold in New York for $1,173, was a gift from the men of the SS Great Eastern to their shipmate ‘Cromwell’; it is sad to ponder how it finally ended up in the Thames.

Both were illiterate – though they apparently used academic journals as picture reference – and it was the nonsense squiggles they ‘wrote’ on their antiques that helped arouse suspicion.

Keen detective work tracked down the moulds they used, destroying their London business among collectors.

However they continued to work the provinces into the 1860s. And, ironically, the thousands of items they produced have now become collectors’ items of their own. For while a ‘Billy and Charley’ may not be medieval, it is now a genuine – one might almost say typically – London antique!

William Smith and Charles Eaton would be amazed to find their forgeries have a value today just because they are fake, with museums including the British Museum and Victoria & Albert holding them in their collections. You can see from this pilgrim’s badge – on sale from Arc Antiquities, £95, telephone 07952 931243 – how Billy and Charley’s ‘Latin’ let them down!

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Spellbound in Spitalfields The ‘Gentle Author’ writes a blog every single day about his life in the heart of London. We join him on a visit to a magnificent Spitalfields home, lavished with a collection of natural history specimens, old masters, architectural and religious artefacts. Welcome to Malplaquet House PHOTOGRAHS: PHILIPPE DEEBERST

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majestic four storey mansion (completed in 1742 by Thomas Andrews). Here I recognised a moment of anticipation comparable to that experienced by Pip, standing at the gate of Satis House before being admitted to meet Miss Havisham.

Let me admit, for years I have paused to peek through the railings, but I never had the courage to ring the bell at Malplaquet House before.

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WALKING EAST from Spitalfields down the Mile End Road, I arrived at the gateway surmounted by two stone eagles and reached through the iron gate to pull on a tenuous bell cord, before casting my eyes up at Malplaquet House.

Hovering nervously on the dusty pavement with the traffic roaring around my ears, I looked through the railings into the overgrown garden and beyond to the dark windows enclosing the secrets of this

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‘In 1998, when they bought Malplaquet House from the Spitalfields Trust, the edifice had not been inhabited in over a century’

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garden path and through the door, I was not disappointed to enter the hallway that I had dreamed of, discovering it thickly lined with stags’ heads, reliefs, and antiquarian fragments, including a cast of the hieroglyphic inscription from between the front paws of the sphinx. Here my bright-eyed host, Tim Knox, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, introduced me to landscape gardener Todd LongstaffeGowan with whom he restored the house.

In 1998, when they bought Malplaquet House from the Spitalfields Trust, the edifice had not been inhabited in over a century, and there were two shops, ‘F.W. Woodruff & Co Ltd, Printers Engineers’ and ‘Instant Typewriter Repairs’ extending through the front garden to the street.

Yet this single-minded pair recklessly embraced the opportunity of living in a building site for the next five years, repairing the ancient fabric, removing modern accretions and tactfully reinstating missing elements – all for the sake of bringing one of London’s long-forgotten mansions back. Today their interventions are barely apparent, and when Tim led me into his Regency dining room, as created in the 1790s by the brewer Henry Charrington and painted an appetising arsenic green, I found it difficult to believe this had once been a typewriter repair shop. Everywhere, original paintwork and worn surfaces have

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street, concealing the garden which had already been planted and the front wall of the house which was repaired, with windows and front door in place.

Then, on Christmas Eve an exceptionally powerful wind blew down the Mile End Road, and Tim woke in the night to an almighty ‘bang’ to discover that in a transformation worthy of pantomime, some passing yuletide spirit had thrown the shopfronts down into the street to reveal Malplaquet House restored. It ▲

been preserved, idiosyncratic details and textures which record the passage of people through the house and ensure the soul of the place lingers on. The success of the restoration is that every space feels natural and, as you walk from one room to another, each has its own identity and proportion, as if it were always like this.

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About the Gentle Author The Gentle Author’s ambition is to write at least ten thousand stories about Spitalfields life at the rate of one a day, this will take approximately 27 years and four months! “Who knows what kind of life we shall be living in 2037 when I write my ten thousandth post?” he comments. “I do not think there will be any shortage of material, though it may be difficult to choose what to write of because the possibilities are infinite. Truly all of human life is here in Spitalfields.”

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‘As even a cursory glance at the photos will reveal, Tim and Todd are ferocious collectors!’

was a suitably dramatic coup, because today the house more than lives up to its spectacular theatrical debut – it is some kind of curious masterpiece.

I hope Tim will forgive me if I confess that while he outlined the engaging history of the house with professional eloquence – as we sipped tea in the first floor drawing-room – my eyes wandered to the recumbent wild sheep under the table eyeing me suspiciously. Similarly, in the drawing-room, my attention strayed from the finer points of the architectural detail towards the ostrich skeleton in the corner.

As even a cursory glance at the photos will reveal, Tim and Todd are ferocious collectors, a compulsion that can be traced back to childhoods spent in Fiji and the West Indies. They have delighted in the opportunities Malplaquet House provides to display and expand their vast collection of ethnographic, historical, architectural and religious artefacts, natural history specimens and old master paintings.

Consequently, as Tim kindly led me from one room to another, up and down stairs, through closets, opening cupboards in passing, directing my gaze this way and that, while continuously explaining the renovation, pointing out the features and giving historical context, I could do little but nod and exclaim in superlatives that www.antiquexplorer.com www.vintagexplorer.co.uk

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grew increasingly feeble in the face of the overwhelming phantasmagoric detail of his collection.

He confessed how fascinated he is by the everyday life of the Mile End Road including the taxi office across the road that has remained open night and day since he first came to live here. We walked into the walled yard at the rear, canopied by 300-year-old tree ferns, and wondered at the echoing sound of a large community of sparrows that have made their home in this green oasis. It is a paradox of submitting to the spell of this remarkable house that the familiar external world is rendered exotic by comparison.

I have been in older and grander houses, but Malplaquet House has something beyond history and style, it has pervasive atmosphere. It has mystery. It has romance.

You could get lost in there. When I came to leave, I shook hands with Tim and lingered, reluctant to move, because Malplaquet House held me spellbound. Even after my brief visit, I did not want to leave, so Tim walked with me through the garden into the street to say farewell, in a private rehearsal for his own eventual departure from Malplaquet House one day.

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POOLE POTTERY AUCTION SATURDAY 30th APRIL at 10am Viewing Friday 29th April 10am to 4pm and morning of sale from 9am

20th CENTURY DECORATIVE ARTS TUESDAY 26th APRIL at 2pm On view alongside the Poole Pottery auction from Saturday 23rd April, 10am to 1pm, Monday 25th April 10am to 4pm and morning of sale from 9.00am

Specialist Antiques Sale June 15th 2016 To include: Jewellery, Silver, Paintings, Ceramics, Glass, Books & Decorative Furniture

Entries now invited Sold in 2015 for £800

Sold in 2015 for £1,725

Sold in 2015 for £2,000

Pictured: A Meissen porcelain figural group sold £1,200

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Decorative Arts Sales in Dorset After a long association with the town of Wareham, Cottees Auctions have relocated to new purpose built auction rooms at Mannings Heath Road, Poole. First sales have already taken place and senior auctioneer John Condie has plans for extra specialist sales to run alongside the regular fortnightly auctions.

First of these to be held on 26th April will be a venture into the popular area of 20th Century Decorative Arts. “This has always been a favourite period of mine and was one of my first specialist areas when I started in the business in the 1980s” said John, “and along with my colleague Max Beaumont it’s something that we have been wanting to do for a long time.”

Cottees have long held specialist Poole Pottery auctions which have been the biggest in the country for over 25 years, so it seemed appropriate to hold the first Decorative Arts auction in the same week as this year’s first Poole Pottery auction. The sales will be on view simultaneously at Cottees for one week commencing Saturday 23rd April.

Entries in the Decorative Arts auction include rare ceramic vases by Christopher Dresser for Linthorpe, Clarice Cliff including two large Lotus jugs, Moorcroft, Liberty & Co, a Gordon Russell sideboard, Mdina glass and many other well-known names.

The Poole Pottery auction will include the

Treasure from Paris at Tamlyns

A Clarice Cliff Lotus jug from the upcoming sale

usual selection of early and later Poole and will also be on view alongside the permanent collection of Poole Pottery that has been amassed by Cottees over the past few years and rivals any other collection of Poole with several important and unique pieces. www.cottees.co.uk

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Bronze-caster Leopold Oudry started his electrochemical company in 1854 just outside of Paris, in the village of Auteuil, and the following year participated in the 1855 Paris World Fair, where he won a 2nd class medal in the famous Universal Exhibitions.

Jean-Charles Alphand, director of public roads and walks in Paris under Napoleon III, understood the advantage of this system for the beautification and conservation of monumental fountains and public candelabra and Oudry was commissioned for galvanic plating all cast objects and monuments of the City of Paris.

At the 1862 London Universal Exhibition, Oudry exposed decorative items, such as vases, candelabras and statues made in bronze or iron, copper or bronze-coated using the same technique. In the 1880s, the Oudry company was purchased by Antoine Durenne, the iron-casts specialist in Sommevoire.

Oudry is best known for cast vases and statuettes coated with pure copper deposited by electroplating. This figure carries an estimate of £500-600 and will be entered in the Antiques Sale at Tamlyns on the 16th March. The next Specialist Antiques Sale will take place on 15th June and will include a good selection of jewellery, silver, paintings, glass and decorative furniture. www.tamlynsprofessional.co.uk

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Master modeller’s ‘fleet’ to be auctioned in March

Brian King has spent a lifetime either thinking of, or actually building model boats. Now aged 90, the models that won him gold medals and international acclaim – proof that his maxim is true – are to be sold at Ewbank Auctions on 17th March.

The Brian King Collection, comprises of 18 highly complex ship models, almost all in custom-made cases, ranging from Victorian battleships to the USS Arizona, sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbour and are expected to raise around £20,000!

The models are made to several different scales and in length measure from 75cm (29.5ins) to as much as 132cm (4ft 4ins).

Brian was drawn to model-making after being taken to an exhibition as a young man and thought he could make models at least as good as those on display. He explained: “I put a couple (of model boats) in the exhibition the following year and won two awards. That lit the touch paper.”

His first model was a Second World War Royal Navy Algerine Class minesweeper, one of the 110 ships launched between 1942 and 1944. It won a silver medal at the exhibition.

This was to become one of many more medals that he won over the years! It is estimated at £500-1,000 in the sale.

Among the most impressive models of Second Word War battleships is HMS Belfast, which saw action at the Battle of the North Cape, during which she helped in the sinking of the

German battle-cruiser Scharnhorst, as well as protecting the Arctic convoys and taking a major role during the D-Day landings, now she’s a museum ship moored by London Bridge.

Brian was born in Northampton, his father was an engineer and draughtsman, while his mother’s family were master carpenters. After securing a trade scholarship, he was educated at Twickenham Junior Technical School, subsequently serving an indentured five-year craft apprenticeship from 1942 to 1947 with Lagonda Cars. His time there coincided with the time the great W.O. Bentley was chief designer there, although being the war years, the company was engaged in essential war work and jobs were protected professions.

He was later employed as a draughtsman for a gear-cutting firm and prior to his retirement at 60, he was a lecturer in engineering for 20 years at Carshalton Technical College.

Always keen to pass on his knowledge to other model-builders, he wrote six acclaimed books on the subject and has written regularly for the specialist hobby magazine Model Boats.

The collection can be seen on the Ewbank website and will be available for viewing in person at their Burnt Common saleroom in London Road, Send, near Guildford, by appointment or on selective dates. For further information, contact the auctioneers on 01483 223101.

Fighting talk from a local country house library!

Among a fascinating collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century books from a well-stocked and loved Devon country house library, was found a rare copy of the early-19th century publication ‘Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Antient & Modern Pugilism’. A very interesting volume for boxing fanatics and anyone interested in sporting history in general, the book is full of detailed descriptions, head and shoulder plates and fighting poses of the main champions and contenders of the day and of the late-18th century.

The book is a much sought after first volume, published in 1813 and is a bound collection of magazine articles about the bareknuckle forerunner of boxing, written by the English sports writer and journalist Pierce Egan and published by George Smeeton. In the early-19th century, bareknuckle fighting was outlawed in England, but the author was a devoted follower of boxing and wrote articles about the sport which were bound in volumes and sent to subscribers in instalments before being released to the public. In excellent condition and in its original binding, this book has been estimated at £200300 and will be offered for sale in the antiquarian book section of Eldreds spring collectors’ sale on 26th April, along with many other books of similar quality.

At the other end of the spectrum, but still of great interest, is a Star Wars ‘The Force Awakens’ poster from the recent London premiere, signed by George Lucas, Harrison Ford and others. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a great cause – the 1st Sensory Legion cancer charity. www.eldreds.net

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Precious Things at Chiswick Auctions There’s a new department at Chiswick Auctions that aims to bring a selection of fine Silver & Objects of Vertu from around the world, with a particular focus on British, European and Russian silver. And with this, they also welcome the arrival of Samuel Hill as the Silver and Objects of Vertu Specialist. Samuel is hugely knowledgeable in this area having gained much experience and knowledge over the past few years by dealing in silver and studying the silver of Britain and Russia with a number of leading authorities on the subject. Sam is currently writing a book on the work of the Silver & Jewellery Artels of Imperial Russia.

Silver and Objects of Vertu form a very important part of the antique and decorative arts market, with precious metals having been treasured for millennia. Britain has its own very rich history in terms of precious metals, with one of the most recognisable hallmarking systems around the world, dating back to the 14th century.

Of course, Objects of Vertu are not just limited to silver and gold, as the term encompasses any sort of object prized for craftsmanship and intrinsic beauty.

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An Imperial Russian silver gilt and champlevé enamel mounted Karelian birch bowl by The Grachev Brothers, Moscow c1890. (£2,000-3,000)

An Imperial Russian two colour gold and guilloche enamel frame by Fabergé, c.1905. Scratched Inventory no. 25539. (£12,000-15,000)

gold boxes, hardstone carvings, portrait miniatures and works by the most famous jeweller in history, Fabergé.

Chiswick Auctions are based in West London and in addition to Silver and Objects of Vertu, host 16 specialist departments alongside a weekly

general sale; from Designer Handbags and Fashion through to Jewellery and Watches and 20th Century and Contemporary Art & Design, whether buying or selling, you are guaranteed an impeccable service.

A pair of George III Irish silver articulated chop tongs by Laurence Keary, Dublin 1822. (£200-300)

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Recent Auction House results supplied by UKAuctioneers.com Tuesday 9th February Bonhams – Knightsbridge A pair of novelty silver dishes

by Francis Higgins & Sons, London,1930.

Estimate: £600-700 Hammer price: £2,250 (includes buyer’s premium) Tuesday 19th January Campbells A large silver tray, rectangular ogee shape with twin handles, Sheffield 1922. 95oz.

Estimate: £600-700 Hammer price: £800

Wednesday 11th February Bainbridges A Geneva Bible printed by Rouland Hall, 1560, with ‘The Whole Book Of Psalmes’ ‘printed by the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge’, 1634, within a 17th century binding and much inscribed with records of the Martin and Rootham families from 1642. This copy printed for Francis Wythers, who was a Deacon of the English Church at Geneva in 1557; the verso of the penultimate page LLl.iii. Stating in print ‘This Bible Apperteineth to Francis Wythers’.

Estimate: £8,000-10,000 Hammer price: £8,500

Thursday 18th February Chaucer Autographed postcard: Wings band members Paul McCartney, Denny Lane, Linda McCartney, Laurence Juber and Steve Holley, 1984.

Estimate: £100-150 Hammer price: £270

Friday 29th January British Bespoke Auctions A lady’s white platinum diamond and emerald cluster ring.

Estimate: £600-800 Hammer price: £1,100

Friday 5th February Lawrences The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, four first edition 19th century volumes with 81 engraved plates, plus The History and Antiquities of North Durham, first edition with ten engraved plates. All five volumes bound in uniform contemporary half morocco by WJ Mansell.

Estimate: £500-800 Hammer price: £720

Thursday 21st January Wright Marshall A rare Heyn half knight carousel horse, originally made c.1910 and restored later.

Estimate: £2,500-3,500 Hammer price: £1,850

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Friday 19th February Thomson, Roddick & Medcalf A 1688 James II gold five guineas coin. Slightly scratched.

Estimate: £7,000-10,000 Hammer price: £12,600

Tuesday 26th January Capes Dunn & Co A pair of Wedgwood ‘Butterfly Woman’ Fairyland Lustre china trumpet vases, designed by Daisy MakeigJones. 19.8cm high.

Estimate: £1,500-2,500 Hammer price: £1,500

Thursday 4th February Mallams – Cheltenham An 18th century walnut lowboy with a feathered inlaid top and three drawers on cabriole legs with hoof feet.

69cm wide.

Estimate: £700-900 Hammer price: £1,250

Tuesday 16th February Moore, Allen & Innocent A mounted trout in a bowfronted, three-sided display case, inscribed ‘Thames Trout 5lbs 12oz. Caught at Radcot

by T/SGT. R. H. Burneson, USAF, 3rd May 1952’. Labelled inside: ‘Preserved by J Cooper & Son, 78 Bath Road, Hounslow, Middx’.

Estimate: £400-600 Hammer price: £1,350

Wednesday 3rd February Bamfords A rare Alice in Wonderland Pelham Puppet from the Standard Stringed range, boxed, late 1940s.

Hammer price: £280

Tuesday 26th January Chorley’s View of the Villa Madama near Rome by Richard Wilson RA (c.1713-1782), oil on canvas, 63.5cm x 75.5cm.

Estimate: £5,000-7,000 Hammer price: £10,000

Wednesday 3rd February Bamfords A live steam scale model (to 3.5in gauge) of Caledonian Railway 0-6-0T dock tank No. 502 of ‘498’ class dock tank locomotive, built from 1911, designed by J F McIntosh, later LMS No16165 and British Railways 56165, scrapped c.1960.

Estimate: £1,200-1,400 Hammer price: £900

Thursday 21st January Bushey Auctions Oil on panel still life by Constantin Terechkovitch (19021978), signed bottom left, 44.5 x 53.5cm.

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FAIR EXPLORER News from antiques fairs across the UK

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CARMARTHEN WALES With the excitement of the Six Nations Championship having swept the country the next Carmarthen Antiques & Flea Market on Sunday the 10th of April will also be in the grip of rugby fever.

Rugby fans will have the opportunity to buy themselves a piece of the game’s history as a Welsh international shirt belonging to the legendary Allan Martin goes on sale at the fair held at the town’s showground.

The Aberavon RFC and Wales player is famous for his long distance goal-kicking and went on to form the backbone of the successful Welsh team of the 1970s – his proficient kicking often securing a Welsh win. In 1977 he was one of three players from Aberavon RFC who toured New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions. He retired from senior rugby at the age of 42 years but continued to play until the age of 50 with the Wales Classic XV. Martin’s number 5 jersey is expected to attract a great deal of interest from rugby fans, especially those who remember what’s often referred to as the golden age of Welsh rugby.

As well as specialist collecting areas, you can always find ceramics and antique furniture, vintage jewellery and clothing, gardening and agricultural tools, toys and militaria as well as modern art. You’ll find thousands of interesting and unusual decorative items on hundreds of stands indoors and out at The Carmarthen Antiques and Flea Market between the hours of 10am and 4pm. Admission is £4 for adults with accompanied children free. www.towyevents.co.uk 28 March-April 2016 Antiquexplorer

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Ancient Chinese antiquities will be a major attraction at The Cotswolds Decorative Antiques & Fine Art Fair at Westonbirt School, near Tetbury, from 25th-27th March.

Dating from the Tang, Han and Ming dynasties, a variety of figures will be on sale from specialist dealer Paul Burnett. Antiquities – antiques more than 500 years old – appeal both to collectors and interior decorators. They offer historic interest, charm and rarity, making such items very appealing to anyone looking for something different for their homes and personal collections. Paul Burnett will be showing a rare earthenware model of a figure together with a number of painted pottery figures of court officials and servants, figures that carried out the tasks required of the deceased in the underworld. Priced from £125 each, these figures were buried with their wealthy aristocrat to provide service in the afterlife, often representing real people who were killed and buried in the tomb of their master.

The Fair offers a wide variety of pieces for collectors, home furnishers, interior designers and anyone looking for unusual decorative accessories. With more than 45 exhibitors, it offers exhibits from £20 to more than £10,000.

The Great Hall, Orangery and adjoining rooms of Westonbirt House are filled with

colourful temptations, from Victorian and 20th century lighting, country furniture and Mid-Century Modern, to eye-catching Art Deco, contemporary sculpture and illustrative art.

The three-day Fair is held three times a year at this stunning venue, which costs just £5 admission and is open daily between 11am and 5pm. www.cooperevents.com

BATH NORTH SOMERSET An iconic Pop Art sofa will be one of many interesting attractions at The Bath Decorative Antiques Fair, held at The Pavilion from 10th-12th March. Titled ‘Marilyn’, this sofa – inspired by the 1937 art installation by Salvador Dali depicting an image of Mae West – was designed in the shape of Marilyn Monroe’s lips by Karl-Heinz Hussmann of Germany. Although made in the 1990s, they were made in limited numbers – so a guaranteed antique of the future. The sofa is for sale from Apollo Antiques of Ashburton, and will be priced at £3,450. The sofa is just one of many rare and unusual designer pieces going on sale at this annual event that features leading specialist dealers from across the country. The trade preview is held on Thursday the 10th, whilst the Fair is open to the general public both Saturday and Sunday. www.bathdecorativeantiquesfair.co.uk www.antiquexplorer.com www.vintagexplorer.co.uk

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PETWORTH WEST SUSSEX After a successful inaugural event last year, The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair returns to The Marquee, Petworth Park, Petworth House, in West Sussex from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th May. Organised by Ingrid Nilson, director of The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited, the fair is held in a purposebuilt marquee in the glorious grounds of Petworth Park.

Over 40 specialist dealers, predominantly members of the British Antique Dealers’ Association and LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers, are showcasing a cornucopia of treasures with the majority of dealers returning to the fair to reengage with contacts made last year.

The fair is the perfect hunting ground for both useful and decorative items, both large and small, from a colourful set of four 1920s English hock glasses to a large 19th century armorial carved

wood and decorated shield measuring an impressive 40 inches!

Parking for antiques fair visitors is free in a specially located car park nearby.

A courtesy bus will take visitors to and from the antiques fair from the centre of Petworth. Light snacks and refreshments can be found in The Marquee, and in Petworth House’s Audit Room. Stephen Morris Shipping is on-site at the fair and can look after safe delivery of purchases to anywhere in the world.

Antiques fair tickets are £10 each and allow entry across all three days, so people who come from further afield can enjoy a whole cultural weekend visiting the fair and the surrounding area.

Antiquexplorer readers are offered a Two for One ticket to this fabulous event by quoting the magazine or better still, take a copy with you – normal price is £10 per person. www.petworthparkfair.com

19th century armorial carved wood and decorated shield that by repute came from The Bishop’s Palace in Ruta de Santiago is priced at £5,850 from dealer William Cook

SHIRLEY SOLIHULL B2B Events are thrilled with how the bookings for their new event Cranmore Park Vintage & Antiques Fair are going. Located in a prime position, with easy access from three main motorways, the Fair should be attended by visitors from far and wide. It’s already attracted great interest from traders as only a handful of stalls remain for the first event set to take place on Saturday 2nd April.

“We’ve been absolutely delighted by the response to our new Midlands event”, said Helen Martin, B2B Events Director. “The fair is going to offer a fantastic cross-section of exhibitors – from all things vintage to dinnerware, glass and all kinds of items for the home. With vintage themed entertainment and a pop-up tearoom, it promises to be the perfect fair for seeking out chic looks, retro style, vintage glamour and traditional quality antiques – so don’t miss it!” www.b2bevents.info

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SEMLEY WILTSHIRE Dairy House Antiques & Interiors has recently added 1,500 square feet of new selling space. An interesting selection of garden statuary and gardenalia is now available, and with spring just around the corner the plant supports, obelisks, troughs and planters are already proving very popular with visitors.

Several new dealers have been welcomed, making a total of 32. The stock ranges from rugs to pictures, ornaments to crockery, textiles to furniture, clocks to coins, jewellery to toys - alongside every other type of collectable you could imagine!

Debs Jeffery, owner of Dairy House, comments:“It’s been a hectic few months here but we are all thrilled with the new space, as are our customers. We’re now able to stock a much wider selection of large items, such as beautiful armoires, chests of drawers, tables and chairs, as well as armchairs and garden furniture for example.

“The selection of gardenalia is a real draw for people looking for something a little different – one of our most popular items are the Amish barn stars which come in several different sizes and colours.

There’s so much to browse through and we love seeing our regular customer’s reactions when they first realise there’s a whole new space opened up! Tea, coffee and cake is also available so, as ever, there are plenty of reasons to visit.”

The centre will be hosting it’s annual Antique & Vintage Textiles Fair on Sunday 10th April from 10am to 4pm, that will feature a wide selection of fabrics and textiles from the best dealers across the South.

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Fair Explorer CHELSEA LONDON March brings a major four-day event which takes place in the chic surroundings of Chelsea Old Town on the fashionable King’s Road. The Art-Design-Antiques Chelsea Fair, held from 17th-20th March, brings together dealers from across the UK specialising in fine quality designer pieces and collectors’ items from the past and present.

“Today’s art and antiques buyer is not only a collector, but an interior designer, home furnisher and admirer of fine design,” explains organiser Caroline Penman, who has witnessed the changing trends in the art and antiques market for the past forty years. “Today’s buyers are more knowledgeable and discriminating than ever, and to meet this demand the fair has assembled specialists with stock chosen to emphasise design and authenticity whilst being affordable. In the surroundings of Chelsea’s most popular public venue, the Old Town Hall, we have a varied and fascinating collection of stylish exhibits at prices to suit every pocket.”

Among the exhibitors will be Hayloft Mid Century Design who specialise in British and Danish furniture from the 1950s to the 70s, focusing on the work of Danish designers such as Arne Vodder, Finn Juhl and Kofod Larsen, as well as British Mid-century pieces by the likes of Archie Shine and Gordon Russell.

Glass specialist Richard Hoppé returns with a selection of scent bottles, glass, tiles, objets d’art and vintage celebrity photographs by the renowned portrait, ballet and travel photographer, E. O. Hoppé, while 20th century jewellery features prominently with exhibitors Plaza,

including a number of quite stunning designer items. Art specialists include London dealer Nicholas Bagshawe with British and European Paintings, including Pre-Raphaelite and 20th century works by Noel Laura Nisbet, Arthur Dixon, John Singer Sargeant and George Spencer Watson.

Admission is £5 and the event opens on Thursday from midday until 8pm, Friday and Saturday 11am until 6pm and finally Sunday from 11am to 5pm.

1960s rosewood sideboard designed by Martin Hall for Gordon Russell, £3,750; ‘Sand Dunes’ a bronze by Sally Grant (edition of 7), £5,000; painting by Lindsey Hambleton, ‘Forest at The Edge’, oil on wood panel, £4,250.

All from Hayloft Mid Century Design

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of 20th century glass, paperweights and jewellery will be spoilt for choice.

Go along and see for yourself; you’ll have a great day out! Open from 10.30am until 4pm, admission is £5, refreshments are available and there is free parking. www.nationalglassfair.com

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Specialist Glass Fairs’ flagship event, the National Glass Fair, will take place on Sunday 8th May. Returning to the National Motorcycle Museum this twiceyearly fair is always eagerly awaited by the glass-collecting fraternity because of the wide variety and quality of the glass offered for sale.

A specialist event like this is a great opportunity for enthusiasts to meet other like-minded individuals and to browse the spectacular array of exciting pieces on sale, plus there is always the possibility of finding a bargain – or haggling your way to one!

Exhibitors are drawn from across the UK and further afield bringing their very best stock to this event, so it really is a fascinating experience to visit one of these fairs and, if it’s your first time, you’ll not be disappointed.

Contemporary studio glass is a big collecting area and is well represented at the fair by a number of glass artists using various techniques such as graal, cameo engraving and blown work. If you’re more interested in antique and collectable glass, such as Georgian, Victorian, Art Nouveau or Art Deco, then the many specialist dealers will be sure to have something to inspire you. Alternatively, collectors

Very Rare Kraamvrouw Dutch-engraved goblet and cover, c.1760, height 8¼in.

Produced to celebrate the birth and wellbeing of a mother and child these ‘kandeel’ (a restorative drink) glasses survive in very few numbers with less than a dozen retaining the original lid

Hyson Fairs returns to the Livestock Centre on 5th March with the Exeter Flea Market. With up to 120 stands selling everything and anything, from books to bric-a-brac, clothes to curtains, furniture to figurines, and plants to pictures – something for everyone, and with free parking and only £2 entry, what is there not to like?

The 23rd April is the Rag Market at the Mackarness Hall in Honiton where some of the best textile dealers in the country bring together bundles of goodies and have a grand clear out – so go along and snap up a bargain.

For more information on all the events organised by Hyson Fairs visit the Facebook page or website. www.hysonfairsltd.co.uk www.antiquexplorer.com www.vintagexplorer.co.uk

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CHELSEA LONDON

Carmarthen has established itself as an area renowned for staging quality antiques fairs, and that’s where Derwen Fairs will be holding their next fair on 2nd and 3rd April, within the prestigious National Botanic Garden of Wales, on the outskirts of Carmarthen and just 15 minutes away from the end of the M4 corridor.

The venue will also play host to the popular BBC programme Bargain Hunt, filming on Saturday 2nd April. This is exciting news as this is the first visit to the National Botanic Gardens for Bargain Hunt and they are pleased to have selected a unique and interesting location.

The gardens, spread over 560 acres of the beautiful Carmarthenshire countryside, offer an amazing backdrop where Lord Foster’s impressive glasshouse hosts the fair, as well as Principality House which is situated adjacent to the Glass Dome, Theatre Botanica and the large marquee.

There will also be a vintage market outside held

The BADA Fair is the first major showcase of fine art, design and antiques in London each year. Synonymous with quality and luxury, it attracts an international audience of experienced collectors and first-time buyers. It is the only Fair exclusive to members of the prestigious British Antique Dealers’ Association, and takes place from 9th to 15th March at Duke of York Square, on the King’s Road.

Contemporary items have an increasing presence at the BADA Fair, reflecting the changing membership that now welcomes dealers in contemporary and modern pieces. The Fair also boasts a wonderful selection of modern pieces, including important examples of British sculpture from Beaux Arts. Highlights of their stand will include a Henry Moore ‘Draped Reclining Figure’ from 1956.

Traditional items continue to fetch up to six figure sums at this Fair, appealing to connoisseurs and those seeking a statement piece. Exhibitor Robyn Robb will bring a rare St James’s scent bottle with rosebud stopper (shown below), modelled as a girl leaning against a vine and holding a bunch of grapes above her head, she dates from 1750-59 and is just 9cm high.

Ticket prices are £10 for a single entry or £15 for a double, both include the latest edition of the BADA Handbook and one re-entry pass per person. www.badafair.com

A charming early 19th century Welsh oak chair

in 20 smaller marquees plus numerous outside stands, bringing the total number of stands to over 100!

The fair organisers stress the importance of promoting antiques mixed in with vintage but with the emphasis very much on quality, from ancient Chinese to Mid-century Modern. There is always, of course, an abundance of Welsh pottery ranging from Swansea, Glamorgan, Llanelli and the increasingly popular Ewenny. An exceptional display of 17th and 18th century country oak furniture will take centre stage such as a late 17th century Charles II cabinet on stand, a Mid-17th century back-stool, a Carmarthenshire coffer, and an 18th century oak corner cupboard from Pembrokeshire. Welsh textiles will also be a feature with a large range of tapestry blankets Woollen blankets available.

To appeal to the wider audience is essential and so to provide a varied selection of antiques is very important. In all, the fair is very well rounded, with a balance of furniture, period clocks and homewares.

The fair opens its doors at 10am until 4.30pm, admission is just £2, which is to both the gardens and the fair and you’ll also find ample free parking inside the grounds. www.derwenantiques.co.uk

SOUTH MOLTON DEVON Now in its second year, the popular Antiques, Collectibles, Vintage & Nostalgia Fair held at the South Molton Pannier Market on the third Sunday of the month has firmly established itself in the fairs calendar. Feedback has been hugely supportive, particularly regarding the range and quality of goods, the knowledge of the traders and the ability to identify hidden gems and real bargains. The range of traders include those who specialise, whether it be in cigarette cards, posters or postcards, jewellery, silver or ceramics, toys, vintage clothes or coins, and traders who offer an eclectic range of quality goods. Popular stalls include agricultural antiques, wooden boxes and North Devon ceramics. Whatever it is you’re looking for there’s a good chance you’ll find it in this lovely market town.

What’s more, there’s free parking, free entry, friendly traders, and a fantastic café, which all help to make this a pleasurable day out. The iconic George Hotel in the square offers a hearty Sunday lunch, or for those looking for a cooked breakfast or brunch, EATS on South Street is the www.antiquexplorer.com www.vintagexplorer.co.uk

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Fairs Calendar

EVERY MONDAY Somerset Taunton Antiques Market, 25-29 Silver Street, Taunton, TA1 3DH. Tel: 01823 289327 EVERY TUESDAY Devon Antique & Collector’s Fair. Tavistock Pannier Market, Tavistock, PL19 0AL. Tel: 01822 611003 www.tavistockpanniermarket.co.uk Staffordshire Antiques & Collectors Market.

High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 1QN. ANTIQUE FORUM GROUP: 01782 393660 www.antiqueforumgroup.com EVERY WEDNESDAY Leicestershire Antiques & Vintage Market.

Northampton Road, Market Harborough, LE16 9HD. ANTIQUES2GO: 01327 871797 www.antiques2go.co.uk EVERY THURSDAY Devon Grand Flea Market. Town Hall, Torquay, TQ1 3DR. Tel: 01548 561419 Somerset Antiques & Collectables. Chard Guildhall, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1PP. Tel: 01460 239567 London Antique Market. Old Spitalfields Market, 16 Horner Square, E1 6EW. leegraham@wellingtonmarkets.co.uk www.oldspitalfieldsmarket.com Norfolk Antiques, Collectables, Vintage Fair. The Friends’ Meeting House, Goat Lane, Norwich, NR2 1EW. Tel: 01603 630763 EVERY FRIDAY Devon Fleamarket. The Jubilee Hall, Chagford, TQ13 8BW. HYSON FAIRS: 01647 231459 www.hysonfairsltd.co.uk Devon Collectors Fleamarket. Totnes Civic Hall, Totnes, TQ9 5SF. Tel: 01803 526214 www.totnesfleamarket.co.uk Gloucestershire Antiques & Collectables Market. The Corn Hall, 26 Market Place, Cirencester, GL7 2NY. Tel: 01264 393225 Worcestershire Antique & Collectors Fair. All Saints Church Hall, Burcot Lane, Bromsgrove, B60 1AF. WAVERLEY FAIRS: 0121 550 4123 Northamptonshire Flea Market. The Town Hall, 86 Watling Street, Towcester, NN12 6BS. ANTIQUES2GO: 01327 871797 www.antiques2go.co.uk TUESDAY 1st MARCH West Sussex International Antique & Collectors Fair. The Showground, Selsfield Road, Ardingly, Haywards Heath, RH17 6TL. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk

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TUESDAY 8th MARCH Greater London Antiques Market. Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East, Sunburyon-Thames, Middlesex, TW16 5AQ. Tel: 01932 230946 www.sunburyantiques.com London Antiques Fair. Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Road, SW3 5EE. Tel: 0207 430 1254 www.littlechelseafair.co.uk

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Fairs Calendar WEDNESDAY 2nd MARCH West Sussex International Antique & Collectors Fair. The Showground, Selsfield Road, Ardingly, Haywards Heath, RH17 6TL. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk FRIDAY 4th MARCH Wiltshire Antiques Fair. Wilton House, Wilton, nr Salisbury, SP2 0BJ. Tel: 01722 746728 www.wiltonhouse.com SATURDAY 5th MARCH Devon Flea Market. Exeter Livestock Centre, Matford, EX2 8FD. HYSON FAIRS: 01647 231459 www.hysonfairsltd.co.uk Devon Antiques Fair. RHS Garden, Rosemoor, Great Torrington, EX38 8PH. DCAF: 01363 776600 www.antiques-fairs.com Wiltshire Antiques Fair. Wilton House, Wilton, nr Salisbury, SP2 0BJ. Tel: 01722 746728 www.wiltonhouse.com Scotland Antique & Collectors Fair, Albert Halls, Dumbarton Road, Stirling, FK8 2QL. SCOTFAIRS: 01764 654555 www.scotfairs.co.uk SUNDAY 6th MARCH Devon Antiques Fair. RHS Garden, Rosemoor, Great Torrington, EX38 8PH. DCAF: 01363 776600 www.antiques-fairs.com Dorset Antiques, Vintage & Collectables Fair.

Village Hall, East Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5EE.CAMEO FAIRS: 01202 893942 www.cameofairs.co.uk

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WEDNESDAY 9th MARCH London Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Duke of York Square, King’s Road, SW3 4LY. BADA: 020 7589 6108 www.badafair.com

Somerset Vintage & Antiques Market. Green Park Station, Green Park Road, Bath, BA1 1JB. Tel: 07711 900095 www.vintageandantiques.co.uk Wiltshire Antiques Fair. Wilton House, Wilton, nr Salisbury, SP2 0BJ. Tel: 01722 746728 www.wiltonhouse.com Surrey Flea Market & Collectors Fair. Leisure Centre, Kingfield Road, Woking, GU22 9BA. TAKE FIVE FAIRS: 020 8894 0218 www.antiquefairs.co.uk Kent Antique Fair. Crook Log Leisure Centre Brampton Road, Bexleyheath, DA7 4HH. HADDON EVENTS: 07519 276507 haddonevents.weebly.com West Midlands Antiques & Collectors Fair.

Coventry Sports Connexion, Leamington Road, Ryton on Dunsmore, Coventry, CV8 3F2.

Tel: 07939 445024 www.gjfairs.com Suffolk Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Cameo Hotel, Old London Road, Copdock, Ipswich, IP8 3JD. GNB FAIRS: 01702 410171 www.gnbfairs.com Merseyside Antiques & Collectors Fair.

Greenbank Sports Academy, Greenbank Lane, Liverpool, L17 1AG. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Lancashire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Hilton, North Promenade, Blackpool, FY12JQ. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Greater Manchester Antiques & Collectors Fair. Trafford Soccerdome, M17 8DD. DUALCO PROMOTIONS: 01612 831255 www.dualco.co.uk Worcestershire Antiques & Collectors Fair.

Three Counties Showground, Malvern, WR13 6NW. B2B EVENTS: 01636 676531 www.b2bevents.info County Durham Antiques & Vintage Fair.

New College Durham, Durham, DH1 5ES. COLIN CAYGILL EVENTS: 0191 261 9632 www.ccevents.net Wales Antiques & Collectables Fair.

Llangollen Pavilion, Abbey Road, Llangollen, Denbighshire, LL20 8SW. Tel: 01490 450338 Scotland Antique & Collectors Fair.

Meadowbank Stadium, London Road, Edinburgh, EH7 6AE. SCOTFAIRS: 01764 654555 www.scotfairs.co.uk MONDAY 7th MARCH Surrey Antiques & Collectors Market.

Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, KT10 9AJ. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk London Antiques Fair. Chelsea Old Town Hall,

THURSDAY 10th MARCH Somerset Decorative Antiques Fair (Tradeonly day). The Pavilion, North Parade, Bath, BA2 4EU. Tel: 01278 784912 www.bathdecorativeantiquesfair.co.uk London Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Duke of York Square, King’s Road, SW3 4LY. BADA: 020 7589 6108 www.badafair.com FRIDAY 11th MARCH Somerset Decorative Antiques Fair. The Pavilion, North Parade, Bath, BA2 4EU. Tel: 01278 784912 www.bathdecorativeantiquesfair.co.uk Somerset International Antiques & Collectors Fair. Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet BA4 6QN. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk London Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Duke of York Square, King’s Road, SW3 4LY. BADA: 020 7589 6108 www.badafair.com Staffordshire Antiques Fair. Bingley Hall, The County Showground, Weston Road, Stafford, ST18 OBD. BOWMAN FAIRS: 01274 588505 www.antiquesfairs.com SATURDAY 12th MARCH Somerset Decorative Antiques Fair. The Pavilion, North Parade, Bath, BA2 4EU. Tel: 01278 784912 www.bathdecorativeantiquesfair.co.uk Somerset International Antiques & Collectors Fair. Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet BA4 6QN. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk London Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Duke of York Square, King’s Road, SW3 4LY. BADA: 020 7589 6108 www.badafair.com Staffordshire Antiques Fair. Bingley Hall, The County Showground, Weston Road, Stafford, ST18 OBD. BOWMAN FAIRS: 01274 588505 www.antiquesfairs.com SUNDAY 13th MARCH Somerset International Antiques & Collectors Fair. Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet BA4 6QN. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk London Midcentury Modern Show. Erno Goldfinger’s Haggerston School, Weymouth Terrace, E2 8LS. petra@modernshows.com www.modernshows.com London Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Duke of York Square, King’s Road, SW3 4LY. BADA: 020 7589 6108 www.badafair.com Hertfordshire Antiques & Collectors Fair.

Wylotts Theatre, Wylotts Place, Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 2HN. GNB FAIRS: 01702 410171 www.gnbfairs.com Lincolnshire Antiques Market. Lincolnshire

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Showground, Grange-de-Lings, LN2 2NA. ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS: 01298 27493 www.asfairs.com Greater Manchester Antiques & Collectors Fair. Macron Stadium, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 6SF. DUALCO PROMOTIONS: 01612 831255 www.dualco.co.uk Staffordshire Antiques Fair. Bingley Hall, The County Showground, Weston Road, Stafford, ST18 OBD. BOWMAN FAIRS: 01274 588505 www.antiquesfairs.com Staffordshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Leisure Centre, Enville Road, Kinver, DY7 6AA. ROMAN FAIRS: 07771 725302 www.romanfairs.co.uk Cheshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. Park Royal Hotel, Stretton, Warrington, WA4 4NS. V&A FAIRS: 01244 400006 www.vandafairs.com Northumberland Antiques & Vintage Fair.

Newbiggin Sports Centre, Newbiggin by the Sea, NE64 6HG. COLIN CAYGILL EVENTS: 0191 261 9632 www.ccevents.net South Yorkshie Antiques & Collectables Fair.

Building 21, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Wath Road, nr Barnsley, S74 8HJ. NEWCOMEN FAIRS: 01226 744425 www.newcomenfairs.co.uk MONDAY 14th MARCH London Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Duke of York Square, King’s Road, SW3 4LY. BADA: 020 7589 6108 www.badafair.com Nottinghamshire Antiques & Collectors Fair.

Newark & Notts Showground, Newark, NG24 2NY. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk TUESDAY 15th MARCH Surrey Antique, Home & Vintage Show.

Epsom Racecourse, Epsom Downs, KT18 5LQ. CONTINUITY FAIRS: 01584 873634 www.continuityfairs.co.uk London Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Duke of York Square, King’s Road, SW3 4LY. BADA: 020 7589 6108 www.badafair.com Northumberland Antiques & Vintage Fair.

The Leisure Centre, Wentworth Park, Hexham, NE46 3PD. CC EVENTS: 0191 261 9632 www.ccevents.net THURSDAY 17th MARCH London Antiques Fair. Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, SW3 5EE. PENMAN FAIRS: 01886 833091 www.penman-fairs.co.uk Cheshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Civic Hall, Beam Street, Nantwich, CW5 5DG. V&A FAIRS: 01244 400006 www.vandafairs.com FRIDAY 18th MARCH London Antiques Fair. Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, SW3 5EE. PENMAN FAIRS: 01886 833091 www.penman-fairs.co.uk North Yorkshire Antiques Fair. Duncombe Park, Helmsley, YO62 5EB. GALLOWAY FAIRS: 01423 522122 www.gallowayfairs.co.uk SATURDAY 19th MARCH Devon Antiques & Collectables Fair. Newton Abbott Racecourse, Newton Road, TQ12 3AF. Tel. 01626 353235 www.newtonabbotracing.com London Antiques Fair. Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, SW3 5EE. PENMAN FAIRS: 01886 833091 www.penman-fairs.co.uk Oxfordshire Antiques & Collectors’ Fair. The

Holt Hotel, Oxford Road, Bicester, OX25 5QQ. Tel: 01869 347356 www.antiques-at-the-holt.co.uk West Midlands Antiques & Collectors Fair. Edgbaston Stadium, Edgbaston Road, Birmingham. B5 7QU. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk West Yorkshire Antiques Fair. Wetherby Racecourse, Wetherby, LS22 5EJ. JAGUAR FAIRS: 01332 830444 www.jaguarfairs.com North Yorkshire Antiques Fair. Duncombe Park, Helmsley, YO62 5EB. GALLOWAY FAIRS: 01423 522122 www.gallowayfairs.co.uk SUNDAY 20th MARCH Devon Flea Market. Tavistock Town Hall, Bedford Square, Tavistock, PL19 0AU. Tel: 01822 617232 www.tavistocktownhall.co.uk Devon Antiques, Collectables, Vintage Fair. The Pannier Market, The Square, South Molton, EX36 3AB. Tel: 07973 803740 www.pannierantiques.com Hampshire Antiques & Collectors Fair.

Botleigh Grange Hotel, The Grange Road, Hedge End, Southampton, SO30 2GA. GRANDMA’S ATTIC FAIRS: 01590 677687 www.grandmasatticfairs.co.uk London Antiques Fair. Lindley Hall at The Royal Horticultural Halls, Victoria, SW1 2PE. ADAMS ANTIQUE FAIRS: 020 7254 4054 www.adamsantiquesfairs.com London Antiques Fair. Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, SW3 5EE. PENMAN FAIRS: 01886 833091 www.penman-fairs.co.uk Oxfordshire Antiques & Collectors’ Fair. The Holt Hotel, Oxford Road, Bicester, OX25 5QQ. Tel: 01869 347356 www.antiques-at-the-holt.co.uk Bedfordshire Antiques Fair. The Weatherley Centre, Eagle Farm Road, Biggleswade, SG18 8JH. MADISON EVENTS: 01480 382432 www.madisonevents.co.uk Shropshire Antiques & Collectors Fair.

Shrewsbury Sports Village, Sundorne Road, Shrewsbury, SY1 4RQ. ROMAN FAIRS: 07771 725302 www.romanfairs.co.uk Essex Antique Fair. Runnymede Hall, A13 Kiln Road, Benfleet, SS7 1TF. HADDON EVENTS: 07519 276507 haddonevents.weebly.com Greater Manchester Antiques & Collectors Fair. Edgeley Park Stadium, Hardcastle Road, Stockport, SK3 9DD. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Merseyside Antiques & Collectors Fair.

The Dunes Leisure Centre, The Esplanade, Southport, PR8 1RX. V&A FAIRS: 01244 400006 www.vandafairs.com Cleveland Antiques & Vintage Fair.

Rainbow Leisure Centre, Coulby Newham, Middlesborough, TS8 OTJ. COLIN CAYGILL EVENTS: 0191 261 9632 www.ccevents.net West Yorkshire Antiques Fair. Wetherby Racecourse, Wetherby, LS22 5EJ. JAGUAR FAIRS: 01332 830444 www.jaguarfairs.com North Yorkshire Antiques Fair. Duncombe Park, Helmsley, YO62 5EB. GALLOWAY FAIRS: 01423 522122 www.gallowayfairs.co.uk Scotland Antique & Collectors Fair.

Bellahouston Leisure Centre, 31 Bellahouston Drive, Glasgow, G52 1HH. SCOTFAIRS: 01764 654555 www.scotfairs.co.uk

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Fairs Calendar MONDAY 21st MARCH Derbyshire Antiques Market. Donington Park, Castle Donington, DE74 2RP. ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS: 01298 27493 www.asfairs.com

Sunday 15th May 9am- 4pm

GOOD FRIDAY 25th MARCH Cornwall Antique & Collectors Fair.

Royal Cornwall Showground, Whitecross, Wadebridge, PL27 7JE. AFC FAIRS: 01872 519011 www.antiquefairscornwall.co.uk Gloucestershire Antiques, Decorative & Fine Art Fair. Westonbirt School, Tetbury, GL8 8QG. COOPER EVENTS: 01278 784912 www.cooperevents.com Shropshire Antique & Vintage Fair. Oswestry Showground, Whittington Road, SY11 4AB. AMULET FAIRS: 01824 703110 www.amuletfairs.uk Cambridgeshire Antique Fair. The East of England Showground, Peterborough, PE2 6XE. Tel: 01664 812627 www.festivalofantiques.co.uk Suffolk Antiques Fair. St Felix School, Southwold, IP18 6SD. LOMAX FAIRS: 01379 586134 www.lomaxfairs.com West Yorkshire Antique & Collectors Fair.

North Bridge Leisure Centre, Halifax, HX3 6TE. DUALCO FARS: 0161 283125 www.dualco.co.uk Northumberland Antiques & Vintage Fair.

Willowburn Leisure Centre, Alnwick, NE66 2JH. CC EVENTS: 0191 261 9632 www.ccevents.net SATURDAY 26th MARCH Cornwall Antique & Collectors Fair.

Royal Cornwall Showground, Whitecross, Wadebridge, PL27 7JE. AFC FAIRS: 01872 519011 www.antiquefairscornwall.co.uk Gloucestershire Antiques, Decorative & Fine Art Fair. Westonbirt School, Tetbury, GL8 8QG. COOPER EVENTS: 01278 784912 www.cooperevents.com Shropshire Antique & Vintage Fair. Oswestry Showground, Whittington Road, SY11 4AB. AMULET FAIRS: 01824 703110 www.amuletfairs.uk Cheshire Antique & Collectors Fair. Northgate Arena, Victoria Road, Chester, CH2 2AU. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Cambridgeshire Antique Fair. The East of England Showground, Peterborough, PE2 6XE. Tel: 01664 812627 www.festivalofantiques.co.uk Suffolk Antiques Fair. St Felix School, Southwold, IP18 6SD. LOMAX FAIRS: 01379 586134 www.lomaxfairs.com Scotland Antique Collectors Table Top Flea Market. BUAS, Springwood Park, Kelso, TD5 8LS. Tel: 01573 228583 www.buas.org Scotland Antique & Collectors Fair. Citadel Leisure Centre, South Harbour Street, Ayr, KA7 1JB. SCOTFAIRS: 01764 654555 www.scotfairs.co.uk EASTER SUNDAY 27th MARCH Cornwall Antique & Collectors Fair.

Millennium House, Pensilva, Nr Liskeard, PL14 5NF. AFC FAIRS: 01872 519011 www.antiquefairscornwall.co.uk Somerset Giant Flea & Collectors Market.

Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet, BA4 6QN. Tel. 01278 784912

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www.sheptonflea.com Gloucestershire Antiques, Decorative & Fine Art Fair. Westonbirt School, Tetbury, GL8 8QG. COOPER EVENTS: 01278 784912 www.cooperevents.com West Midlands Antique & Collectors Fair.

The National Motorcycle Museum, Coventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, B92 0EJ. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Shropshire Antique & Vintage Fair. Oswestry Showground, Whittington Road, SY11 4AB. AMULET FAIRS: 01824 703110 www.amuletfairs.uk Northamptonshire Antiques, Vintage & Collectors’ Fair. Lamport Hall, Lamport, NN6 9HD. ANTIQUES2GO: 01327 871797 www.antiques2go.co.uk Suffolk Antiques Fair. St Felix School, Southwold, IP18 6SD. LOMAX FAIRS: 01379 586134 www.lomaxfairs.com Norfolk Antique & Collectors Fair. Norfolk Showground, Nr Norwich, NR5 0TT. AZTEC EVENTS: 01702 549623 www.aztecevents.co.uk Nottinghamshire Antiques Fair. Southwell Racecourse, Station Road, Rolleston, NG25 0TS. FIELD DOG FAIRS: 07772 349431 www.fielddogfairs.com Yorkshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Grandstand, Doncaster Racecourse, Leger Way, Doncaster, DN2 6BB. DUALCO PROMOTIONS: 01612 831255 www.dualco.co.uk Scotland Antique Collectors Table Top Flea Market. BUAS, Springwood Park, Kelso, TD5 8LS. Tel: 01573 228583 www.buas.org EASTER MONDAY 28th MARCH Dorset Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Allendale Community Centre, Hanham Road, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1AS. GRANDMA’S ATTIC FAIRS: 01590 677687 www.grandmasatticfairs.co.uk Somerset Vintage & Antiques Market. Green Park Station, Green Park Road, Bath, BA1 1JB. Tel: 07711 900095 www.vintageandantiques.co.uk Surrey Flea Market & Collectors Fair. Leisure Centre, Kingfield Road, Woking, GU22 9BA. TAKE FIVE FAIRS: 020 8894 0218 www.antiquefairs.co.uk Northamptonshire Antiques, Vintage & Collectors’ Fair. Lamport Hall, Lamport, NN6 9HD. ANTIQUES2GO: 01327 871797 www.antiques2go.co.uk Cheshire Antiques & Collectables Fair.

Wilmslow Leisure Centre, Wilmslow, SK9 1BU. Tel: 01625 574649 www.prospectpromotions.co.uk Norfolk Antique & Collectors Fair. Norfolk Showground, Nr Norwich, NR5 0TT. AZTEC EVENTS: 01702 549623 www.aztecevents.co.uk Worcestershire Flea Fair. Three Counties Showground, Malvern, WR13 6NW. B2B EVENTS: 01636 676531 www.b2bevents.info Nottinghamshire Antiques Fair. Southwell Racecourse, Station Road, Rolleston, NG25 0TS. FIELD DOG FAIRS: 07772 349431 www.fielddogfairs.com Tyne & Wear Antiques & Vintage Fair.

Gateshead Stadium, Gateshead, NE10 0EF. COLIN CAYGILL EVENTS: 0191 261 9632 www.ccevents.net Yorkshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Grandstand, Doncaster Racecourse, Leger

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Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, TW16 5AQ. Tel: 01932 230946 www.sunburyantiques.com SATURDAY 2nd APRIL West Midlands International Antique & Collectors’ Fair. Cranmore Park Exhibition Centre, Cranmore Avenue, Shirley, Solihull, B90 4LF. B2B EVENTS: 01363 676531 www.b2bevents.info Merseyside Antiques & Collectors Fair.

Marine Promenade, Wirral, CH45 2JS. ASBRIDGE PROMOTIONS: 07932 844130 www.carbootle.co.uk Derbyshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Roundhouse, Pride Park, Derby, DE24 8JE. JAGUAR FAIRS: 01332 830444 www.jaguarfairs.com Wales Antiques Fair. National Botanic Garden of Wales. Carmarthenshire, SA32 8HG. DERWEN FAIRS: 01267 220260 www.derwenantiques.co.uk Scotland Antique & Collectors Fair, Albert Halls, Dumbarton Road, Stirling, FK8 2QL. SCOTFAIRS: 01764 654555 www.scotfairs.co.uk SUNDAY 3rd APRIL Dorset Antiques, Vintage & Collectables Fair.

Village Hall, East Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5EE.CAMEO FAIRS: 01202 893942 www.cameofairs.co.uk Somerset Vintage & Antiques Market. Green Park Station, Green Park Road, Bath, BA1 1JB. Tel: 07711 900095 www.vintageandantiques.co.uk Surrey Antiques, Collectables and Vintage Fair. Lingfield Park Resort (racecourse), Racecourse Road, Lingfield. RH7 6PQ. Tel: 01293 690 777 www.lovefairs.com West Sussex Antique & Collectors Fair. The Grange Centre, Bepton Road, Midhurst, GU29 9HD. EMMOTT PROMOTIONS: 01243 788596 www.emmottpromotions.co.uk Suffolk Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Cameo Hotel, Old London Road, Copdock, Ipswich, IP8 3JD. GNB FAIRS: 01702 410171 www.gnbfairs.com Cheshire Antique & Collectors Fair.

Capesthorne Hall, Congleton Road, Siddington, Macclesfield, SK11 9JY.

SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Derbyshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Roundhouse, Pride Park, Derby, DE24 8JE. JAGUAR FAIRS: 01332 830444 www.jaguarfairs.com Wales Antiques Fair. National Botanic Garden of Wales. Carmarthenshire, SA32 8HG. DERWEN FAIRS: 01267 220260 www.derwenantiques.co.uk Wales Antiques & Collectables Fair.

Llangollen Pavilion, Abbey Road, Llangollen, Denbighshire, LL20 8SW. Tel: 01490 450338 Scotland Antique & Collectors Fair.

Meadowbank Stadium, London Road, Edinburgh, EH7 6AE. SCOTFAIRS: 01764 654555 www.scotfairs.co.uk MONDAY 4th APRIL Lincolnshire Antiques & Home Show.

Lincolnshire Showground, LN2 2NA. ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS: 01298 27493 www.asfairs.com TUESDAY 5th APRIL Surrey Antique, Home & Vintage Show.

Epsom Racecourse, Epsom Downs, KT18 5LQ. CONTINUITY FAIRS: 01584 873634 www.continuityfairs.co.uk Lincolnshire Antiques & Home Show.

Lincolnshire Showground, LN2 2NA. ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS: 01298 27493 www.asfairs.com THURSDAY 7th APRIL West Midlands Antiques Fair. Halls 18 & 19, NEC, Birmingham, B40 1NT. CLARION EVENTS: 020 7384 7700 www.antiquesforeveryone.co.uk Nottinghamshire International Antiques & Collectors Fair. Newark & Notts Showground, Newark, NG24 2NY. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk FRIDAY 8th APRIL West Midlands Antiques Fair. Halls 18 & 19, NEC, Birmingham, B40 1NT. CLARION EVENTS: 020 7384 7700 www.antiquesforeveryone.co.uk Nottinghamshire International Antiques & Collectors Fair. Newark & Notts Showground, Newark, NG24 2NY. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk SATURDAY 9th APRIL Devon Flea Market. Exeter Livestock Centre, Matford, EX2 8FD. HYSON FAIRS: 01647 231459 www.hysonfairsltd.co.uk

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Wylotts Theatre, Wylotts Place, Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 2HN. Tel: 01702 410171 www.gnbfairs.com Essex Antique Fair. Langford Museum of Power, Steam Pumping Station, Hatfield Road, Langford, Maldon, CM9 6QA. HADDON EVENTS: 07519 276507 haddonevents.weebly.com West Midlands Antiques Fair. Halls 18 & 19, NEC, Birmingham, B40 1NT. CLARION EVENTS: 020 7384 7700 www.antiquesforeveryone.co.uk Cheshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. Park Royal Hotel, Stretton, Warrington, WA4 4NS. V&A FAIRS: 01244 400006 www.vandafairs.com Cheshire Antique & Collectors Fair.

Knutsford Leisure Centre, Westfield Drive, Knutsford, WA16 0BL. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Greater Manchester Antiques & Collectors Fair. George Carnall Leisure Centre, Kingsway Park, Manchester, M41 7FJ. DUALCO PROMOTIONS: 01612 831255 www.dualco.co.uk Leicestershire Antique, Collectors & Vintage Fair. Hinckley Leisure Centre, Coventry Road, Hinckley, LE10 0JR. Tel: 01827 895899 www.bargainsfromyesteryear.co.uk Warwickshire Antiques Fair. British Motor Museum, Banbury Road, Gaydon, CV35 0BJ. FIELD DOG FAIRS: 07772 349431 www.fielddogfairs.com Staffordshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Leisure Centre, Enville Road, Kinver, DY7 6AA. ROMAN FAIRS: 07771 725302 www.romanfairs.co.uk Staffordshire Antiques Fair. Prestwood Centre, Stafford County Showground, Weston Road, Stafford, ST18 0BD. NUMBER ONE EVENTS: 01785 66 02 36 www.numberoneevents.co.uk South Yorkshie Antiques & Collectables Fair.

Building 21, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Wath Road, nr Barnsley, S74 8HJ. NEWCOMEN FAIRS: 01226 744425 www.newcomenfairs.co.uk Wales Antiques & Flea Market. The United Counties Showground, Llysonnen Road, Carmarthen, Dyfed, SA33 5DR. TOWY EVENTS: 01267 236569 www.towyevents.co.uk MONDAY 11th APRIL Surrey Antiques & Collectors Market.

Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, KT10 9AJ. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk TUESDAY 12th APRIL Greater London Antiques Market.

Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, TW16 5AQ. Tel: 01932 230946 www.sunburyantiques.com Northumberland Antiques & Vintage Fair.

Wentworth Leisure Centre, Wentworth Park, Hexham, NE46 3PD. COLIN CAYGILL EVENTS: 0191 261 9632 www.ccevents.net THURSDAY 14th APRIL North Yorkshire Antique Fair. Hall ‘M’, Harrogate International Centre, Ripon Road, Harrogate, HG1 2RD. Tel: 01823 323363 www.harrogateantiquefair.com FRIDAY 15th APRIL North Yorkshire Antique Fair. Hall ‘M’, Harrogate International Centre, Ripon Road, Harrogate, HG1 2RD. Tel: 01823 323363 www.harrogateantiquefair.com West Sussex Antiques Fair. Avisford Park, Arundel, BN18 0LS. GALLOWAY FAIRS: 01423 522122 www.gallowayfairs.co.uk SATURDAY 16th APRIL Dorset Antiques, Vintage & Collectables Fair.

The Town Hall, Fleet Street, Beaminster, DT8 3EF. MEADOW FAIRS: 01297 24446 West Sussex Antiques Fair. Avisford Park, Arundel, BN18 0LS. GALLOWAY FAIRS: 01423 522122 www.gallowayfairs.co.uk West Midlands Antiques & Collectors Fair. Edgbaston Stadium, Edgbaston Road, Birmingham. B5 7QU. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Cambridgeshire Antiques Fair. Hinchingbrooke House, Huntingdon, PE29 3BN. LOMAX FAIRS: 01379 586134 www.lomaxfairs.com Derbyshire Antique & Collectors’ Fair. The Pavilion Gardens, St John’s Road, Buxton, SK17 6BE. UNICORN FAIRS: 07800 508 178 www.unicornfairs.co.uk North Yorkshire Antique Fair. Hall ‘M’, Harrogate International Centre, Ripon Road, Harrogate, HG1 2RD. Tel: 01823 323363 www.harrogateantiquefair.com SUNDAY 17th APRIL Devon Antiques, Collectables, Vintage Fair. The Pannier Market, The Square, South Molton, EX36 3AB. Tel: 07973 803740 www.pannierantiques.com Devon Flea Market. Tavistock Town Hall, Bedford Square, Tavistock, PL19 0AU. Tel: 01822 617232 www.tavistocktownhall.co.uk Wiltshire Antiques, Collectables, Vintage & Retro Fair. City Hall Theatre, Malthouse Lane, Salisbury, SP2 7TU. Tel: 07514 680872 www.biscuitmarketingpr.co.uk West Sussex Antiques Fair. Avisford Park, Arundel, BN18 0LS. GALLOWAY FAIRS: 01423 522122 www.gallowayfairs.co.uk London Antiques Fair. Lindley Hall at The Royal Horticultural Halls, Victoria, SW1 2PE. ADAMS ANTIQUE FAIRS: 020 7254 4054 www.adamsantiquesfairs.com West Midlands Antiques & Collectors Fair.

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Tel: 07939 445024 www.gjfairs.com Lincolnshire Antiques Market. Lincolnshire Showground, Grange-de-Lings, LN2 2NA. ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS: 01298 27493 www.asfairs.com Greater Manchester Antiques & Collectors Fair. Leigh Sports Village, Atherleigh Way, Leigh, WN7 4JY. DUALCO PROMOTIONS: 01612 831255 www.dualco.co.uk Cheshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. Cheshire County Sports Club, Plas Newton Lane, Upton, Chester, CH2 1PR. V&A FAIRS: 01244 400006 www.vandafairs.com Worcestershire Flea Fair. Three Counties Showground, Malvern, WR13 6NW. B2B EVENTS: 01636 676531 www.b2bevents.info Bedfordshire Antiques Fair. The Weatherley Centre, Eagle Farm Road, Biggleswade, SG18 8JH. MADISON EVENTS: 01480 382432 www.madisonevents.co.uk Cambridgeshire Antiques Fair. Hinchingbrooke House, Huntingdon, PE29 3BN. LOMAX FAIRS: 01379 586134 www.lomaxfairs.com Derbyshire Antique & Collectors’ Fair. The Pavilion Gardens, St John’s Road, Buxton, SK17 6BE. UNICORN FAIRS: 07800 508 178 www.unicornfairs.co.uk North Yorkshire Antiques & Vintage Fair.

Richmond 6th Form College, Richmond, DL10 7BQ. CC EVENTS: 0191 261 9632 www.ccevents.net North Yorkshire Antique Fair. Hall ‘M’, Harrogate International Centre, Ripon Road, Harrogate, HG1 2RD. Tel: 01823 323363 www.harrogateantiquefair.com Scotland Antique & Collectors Fair. Bellahouston Leisure Centre, 31 Bellahouston Drive, Glasgow, G52 1HH. SCOTFAIRS: 01764 654555 www.scotfairs.co.uk MONDAY 18th APRIL Derbyshire Antiques Market. Donington Park, Castle Donington, DE74 2RP. ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIRS: 01298 27493 www.asfairs.com TUESDAY 19th APRIL London Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair.

Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ. Tel: 020 7616 9327 www.decorativefair.com West Sussex International Antique & Collectors Fair. The Showground, Selsfield Road, Ardingly, Haywards Heath, RH17 6TL. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk

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Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ. Tel: 020 7616 9327 www.decorativefair.com West Sussex International Antique & Collectors Fair. The Showground, Selsfield Road, Ardingly, Haywards Heath, RH17 6TL. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk THURSDAY 21st APRIL London Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair.

Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ. Tel: 020 7616 9327 www.decorativefair.com Oxfordshire Art & Antique Fair. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, OX20 1PP. CADA: 07831 850 544 www.cadafair.com Cheshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Civic Hall, Beam Street, Nantwich, CW5 5DG. V&A FAIRS: 01244 400006 www.vandafairs.com FRIDAY 22nd APRIL London Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair.

Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ. Tel: 020 7616 9327 www.decorativefair.com Oxfordshire Art & Antique Fair. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, OX20 1PP. CADA: 07831 850 544 www.cadafair.com SATURDAY 23rd APRIL Devon Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Matford Centre, Exeter, EX2 8FD. DCAF: 01363 776600 www.antiques-fairs.com Devon Rag Market. Mackarness Hall, Honiton, EX14 1PG. HYSON FAIRS: 01647 231459 www.hysonfairsltd.co.uk London Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair.

Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ. Tel: 020 7616 9327 www.decorativefair.com Kent International Antique & Collectors’ Fair. The Kent County Showground, Detling, Maidstone, ME14 3JF. B2B: 01363 676531 www.b2bevents.info Oxfordshire Art & Antique Fair. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, OX20 1PP. CADA: 07831 850 544 www.cadafair.com SUNDAY 24th APRIL Cornwall Antique & Collectors Fair.

Millennium House, Pensilva, Nr Liskeard, PL14 5NF. AFC FAIRS: 01872 519011 www.antiquefairscornwall.co.uk Somerset Vintage & Antiques Market. Green

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Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ. Tel: 020 7616 9327 www.decorativefair.com Kent International Antique & Collectors’ Fair. The Kent County Showground, Detling, Maidstone, ME14 3JF. B2B: 01363 676531 www.b2bevents.info Oxfordshire Art & Antique Fair. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, OX20 1PP. CADA: 07831 850 544 www.cadafair.com Greater Manchester Antiques & Collectors Fair. Edgeley Park Stadium, Hardcastle Road, Stockport, SK3 9DD. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Cheshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Leisure Centre, Selkirk Drive, Holmes Chapel, CW4 7DZ. V&A FAIRS: 01244 400006 www.vandafairs.com Cumbria Antiques & Vintage Fair. Rheged Centre, Penrith, CA11 0DQ. COLIN CAYGILL EVENTS: 0191 261 9632 www.ccevents.net Yorkshire Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Grandstand, Doncaster Racecourse, Leger Way, Doncaster, DN2 6BB. DUALCO PROMOTIONS: 01612 831255 www.dualco.co.uk MONDAY 25th APRIL Nottinghamshire Antiques & Collectors Fair.

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TUESDAY 26th APRIL Greater London Antiques Market. Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East, Sunburyon-Thames, Middlesex, TW16 5AQ. Tel: 01932 230946 www.sunburyantiques.com FRIDAY 29th APRIL North Yorkshire Antiques, Decorative & Fine Art Fair. The Pavilions of Harrogate, Railway Road, Harrogate, HG2 8NZ. COOPER EVENTS: 01278 784912 www.cooperevents.com SATURDAY 30th APRIL Devon Antiques & Collectables Fair. Newton Abbott Racecourse, Newton Road, TQ12 3AF. Tel. 01626 353235 www.newtonabbotracing.com Dorset Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Pavilion, Bournemouth, BH1 2BU. GRANDMA’S ATTIC FAIRS: 01590 677687 www.grandmasatticfairs.co.uk Cheshire Antique & Collectors Fair. Northgate Arena, Victoria Road, Chester, CH2 2AU. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk North Yorkshire Antiques, Decorative & Fine Art Fair. The Pavilions of Harrogate, Railway Road, Harrogate, HG2 8NZ. COOPER EVENTS: 01278 784912 www.cooperevents.com Wales Antiques Fair. Royal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, Powys, LD2 3SY. CONTINUITY FAIRS: 01584 873634 www.continuityfairs.co.uk Scotland Antique & Collectors Fair. Citadel Leisure Centre, South Harbour Street, Ayr, KA7 1JB. SCOTFAIRS: 01764 654555 www.scotfairs.co.uk

A vintage and antiques market is located in the historic Green Park Station in Bath, Somerset on the first and last Sunday every month SUNDAY 1st MAY Devon Garden and Gardener’s Fair. Public Hall, Station Road, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 6RJ. HYSON FAIRS: 01647 231459 www.hysonfairsltd.co.uk Dorset Antiques & Collectors Fair. The Pavilion, Bournemouth, BH1 2BU. GRANDMA’S ATTIC FAIRS: 01590 677687 www.grandmasatticfairs.co.uk Dorset Antiques, Vintage & Collectables Fair.

Village Hall, East Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5EE.CAMEO FAIRS: 01202 893942 www.cameofairs.co.uk Somerset Vintage & Antiques Market. Green Park Station, Green Park Road, Bath, BA1 1JB. Tel: 07711 900095 www.vintageandantiques.co.uk London International Antique & Collectors Fair. Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY. IACF: 01636 702326 www.iacf.co.uk West Midlands Antique & Collectors Fair.

The National Motorcycle Museum, Coventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, B92 0EJ. SHEPHERD & WILLIAMS: 07748 972938 www.swfairs.co.uk Nottinghamshire Antiques Fair. Southwell Racecourse, Station Road, Rolleston, NG25 0TS. FIELD DOG FAIRS: 07772 349431 www.fielddogfairs.com North Yorkshire Antiques, Decorative & Fine Art Fair. The Pavilions of Harrogate, Railway Road, Harrogate, HG2 8NZ. COOPER EVENTS: 01278 784912 www.cooperevents.com Wales Antiques Fair. Royal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, Powys, LD2 3SY. CONTINUITY FAIRS: 01584 873634 www.continuityfairs.co.uk BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY 2nd MAY West Sussex Antiques & Collectors Fair.

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