58 2nd April 2011 fairs & markets Tie yourself up in Notts…
Joan Porter reports
COMING up next week are the back-to-back fairs run by IACF at the Newark and Nottinghamshire Showground and Arthur Swallow Fairs at the Lincolnshire Showground, some 20 miles apart. Up to around 4000
exhibitors across both fairs means thousands of buyers descending on the area to stay over for the week. There’s a lot going on
for antiques buyers in the area, so I’ve selected the medieval city of Lincoln and its surroundings, plus Newark and Nottingham for a tempting antiques shopping trip. Most of the shops have regular opening hours, and some, particularly in Newark, open at other times during the fairs, but check this out in advance.
LINCOLN Sir Nikolaus Pevsner said, rather obliquely when describing Lincoln Cathedral: “a bicycle shed is a building, Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture”. This Gothic masterpiece towers above the city with its soaring towers dominating the skyline for miles.
Above: Castle Square in Lincoln with the cathedral as backdrop plus a close- up of the Gothic cathedral’s Romanesque friezes.
Of particular interest here is the carved choir screen, the 14th
century misericords,
the Romanesque friezes, the Wren and medieval libraries and the Duncan Grant frescoes. Adjacent to the cathedral, the Bishop’s
Palace and the castle is the historic Bailgate, known as the Bail by locals, around which are clustered dozens of independent shops including a clutch of antiques shops in the Cathedral Quarter.
David J Hansord & Son, 6/7 Castle Hill. The only BADA member in Lincolnshire. From a Grade lI-Listed Queen Anne building, Anne, David and
John Hansord, a mother, father and son team, sell a diverse mix of stock, including 18th
century furniture and
works of art with a particular speciality of gentlemen’s cabinets. 01522 530044.
www.hansord.com
Dorrian Lambert Antiques Centre 64/65 Steep Hill. Keith Lambert has 16 antiques dealers here, mainly selling quality smalls. It is very busy in the summer. Mr Lambert likes weird and unusual pieces. Currently he has a c.1910- 1920 garden seat entirely made out of horseshoes at £175 and a stuffed dressed hare. 01522 545916.
Shambles Antiques Centre, 4 Westgate. Just four busy dealers here at Jennifer Davison’s centre, but with a mini art gallery, plus vintage clothes, jewellery and books. 01522 548854.
Mansions Antiques, 5a Eastgate. Jane Wigham’s very small shop is crammed full of lighting, mirrors, silver, antique jewellery and objets d’art; as much as the owner can pack in. 01526 399619.
Arc Jewellables, 38 Bailgate. Suzie Pinder-Smith sells costume, semi-precious and antique jewellery from her shop, a
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