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chapel and some 80 cabinets selling plenty of what is always such a draw at centres, including clocks, books, silver, porcelain, lamps, textiles and Oriental pieces. 01636 643979. www.newarkantiquescentre.com


Galerie, 18 Kirkgate. Gill and Peter Jennison sell French furniture, and decorative interiors pieces here and the couple also mount exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly by local artists. They also like to buy quirky pieces, like this unusual shower. 01636 705899. www.galerie.co.uk


MBG Antiques, Fine Art and Jewellery, 41B Castlegate. Well known in the trade, Irish-born Margaret Begley Gray sells Georgian and Victorian antique jewellery, largely rings, brooches and earrings with prices up to £4500. 01636 650790.


Castlegate Antiques, 1-3 Castlegate. Owner Christine Kavanagh says she could sell chests of drawers, tables and chairs all day long from this Georgian townhouse where eight dealers sell classic furniture, lighting and mirrors and works of art. Mrs Kavanagh currently has for sale a rosewood davenport in the manner of Gillows c.1830 at £3200. 01636 701877. www.castlegateantiques.com


Sally Mitchell’s Gallery, 7 and 9 Eldon Street, Tuxford, near Newark. Sally Mitchell, author of the Antique Collectors’ Club’s Dictionary of Equestrian Artists founded this small family business 35 years ago, selling original sporting art and a large selection of contemporary sporting and country prints. There are at least 200 paintings plus 800 prints for sale at these two galleries plus an online business. 01777 838 234. www.sallymitchell.com


NOTTINGHAM The much-publicised home to that famous man in tights, the mythical outlaw Robin Hood, has a rich


Above: The Rough Rider by F.A. Stewart (1877- 1945), a rare chromolithograph c.1910, 2ft 5in x 2ft 3in (78 x 68cm), priced at £320 from Sally Mitchell’s Gallery in Tuxford.


Below: a French Napoleonic offi cer’s campaign shower, 16 x 13in (40 x 33cm) fi nished in a camoufl age/marbled design, made by the Allez Brothers, Paris in the early 19th from Galerie of Newark.


century – £395


Left: kitchen, dairy and country furniture dealers Smithson Antiques, who have taken space in the newly opened extension at Hemswell Antique Centres.


cultural history, from D.H. Lawrence to Lord Byron and its links to the Pilgrim Fathers. It has a thriving arts scene and Nottingham Castle Museum and Gallery has a permanent collection of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dame Laura Knight and Richard Parkes Bonington, among others.


Luna, 139 Lower Parliament Street. Owner Paul Luna has been in the trade for 25 years and opened a shop in Nottingham in the early 1990s specialising in 1950s to 1970s objects including glass, ceramics and retro furniture, after starting out with a stall


in Camden Market. Now with one of the largest collections of retro outside London – he’s just opened a shop in Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell – he fi nds retro sideboards his best sellers, particularly by Ercol or Danish makers. 0115 924 3267. www.luna-online.co.uk


Nottingham Architectural Antiques and Reclamation, St Albans Works, Radford. Plenty of fi replaces, masses of doors and fl ooring with reclaimed parquet fl ooring, ripped out by the truckload not long back, a speciality at Jo Sanders business. 0115 979 0666.


Melville Kemp Ltd, 79-81 Derby Road. LAPADA members, this long- established family fi rm’s specialities are Georgian silver and 19th


century


antique jewellery. Back in 2005 the fi rm made local news when Mr Kemp re-issued an advert created by his father in 1936 asking for rings, bracelets, medals, brooches and false teeth to sell. He was inundated with modern dentures rather than the gold crowns and palates in use back in the 1930s. 0115 941 7055.


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