Antiques Trade Gazette 47 fairs & markets
New centre boosts Harrogate scene
■ 50-dealer outlet on the outskirts is tipped to keep trade in the area ‘alive and kicking’
Joan Porter reports
THE closure of the Ginnel in Harrogate sadly leaves the town antiques centre-less – but a fresh venture in a village very close by should
help to fi ll the gap. Richard Worrall has stepped in to
open the New Harrogate Antiques Centre in Pannal on the Harrogate to Leeds Road. Some 50 dealers have taken spaces,
including a few from the Ginnel – which was once owned by Pauline Stephenson, former owner of the Red House in York, still a successful antiques centre under new management. The new centre’s launch day on Thursday, July 12, was a big success,
says Richard, adding: “The number of antiques outlets in Harrogate has dwindled signifi cantly from when it was known as the antique centre of the North and we believe that this new centre will boost the antiques scene in the town.” Robert Spencer-Cain, a second
generation member of the family fi rm of polishers and restorers, The English Polisher, and now a dealer at
New Harrogate Antiques Centre, said: “With everything mass-marketed and manufactured these days it’s crucial that outlets like this exist so that the antiques market is kept alive and kicking.” Despite the Ginnel closure, there are
still a number of antiques and interiors shops and art galleries, plus an antiques market, in Harrogate’s attractive Montpellier Quarter.
Olympic posters strike gold for canny Kirill
THE 2012 Games have fi nally hurdled into London with the start on July 27. The Olympics are just one theme of the speciality
posters which St Petersburg-born Kirill Kalinin of online dealers AntikBar sells online and at fairs. Kirill has been a collector of posters and graphic
Right: a vintage poster, 3ft 3in x 2ft 1in (1m x 64cm) in good condition, designed and signed by British artist Peter Phillips of the 1972 Munich Olympics priced at £325 from Antikbar, online poster specialists. Various popular artists of the period, including David Hockney, were commissioned to design a poster for the games.
design for 20 years, after his passion was ignited in the 1990s when he went to a Russian constructivist exhibition in New York. Two years ago he decided to cross the divide, to deal in original vintage posters from the 1890s to the 1970s, with an interesting emphasis on propaganda, war and poster artwork. For an online business, Kirill sees fairs as a good
way to attract poster and ephemera collectors other than his web customers. He is also very active on social media; the Poster of the Day is very popular on Twitter. He certainly puts himself about at fairs, standing at the Decorative Fair at Battersea, Little Chelsea, Olympia and some vintage fashion fairs. There has been growing interest in his collection
of Olympics and crossover sports posters since early this year, says Kirill, with press coverage of the Games ensuring a steady stream of sales.
www.antikbar.co.uk
Right: Robert Spencer-Cain, a dealer at the New Harrogate Antiques Centre.
Thoroughbred performance
THE popularity of the one-day mid-week fair or market largely aimed at the trade, à la Edward Cruttenden at Kempton Park, IACF’s fairs in Newbury, Swinderby and Redbourn, and Arthur Swallow with their indoor antiques market at Donnington Park, has been picked up by Cambridgeshire general dealer Matt Killick (“glass, bronzes, all sorts”) who says the area is crying out for a similar event. The organiser has thus started
an antiques and collectors fair at Huntingdon Racecourse which he plans to hold four times a year on a Monday. Calling his fairs Thoroughbred
Events, Matt was out of the stalls with the fi rst fair on Monday, June 25, and was pretty pleased with his fi rst attempt, fi elding 80 indoor standholders and attracting about 500 visitors, which he hopes to build on. The venue is a small racecourse set in
the Cambridgeshire countryside, close to the market town of Huntingdon and half a mile from the A14. Thoroughbred’s next fi xture is on Monday, August 20.
www.thoroughbredevents.co.uk Call Matt on 07725 406272
A seaside fair
CAROLINE Brown opened a vintage shop back in 2007 and gave it the grand title of The House of Rose and Brown. It was just down the road from Salt’s Mill in Saltaire, near Shipley in West Yorkshire, which has a gallery full of work by one of Yorkshire’s most famous sons, David Hockney. Now she has
two shops in Saltaire, with the second opened earlier this year. Quite early
on, Caroline decided to expand, launching the Saltaire home and vintage fashion fairs (pictured) and an antiques and collectables market in the village; both are recommended by those who know. Now, she is running a one-off two-
day Seaside Vintage Fair in the North Yorkshire seaside town of Whitby, famed for its jet jewellery, on Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29. Caroline said: “We have genuine
vintage from the 1920s to the 1980s, including fashion and jewellery, and for homewares the most popular period is the Deco era and the 1950s, all of which will be at Whitby.” Tel: 07985 181120.
send fair s and mark ets information to joan porter at
fairs@atgmedia.com
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