58 9th June 2012 fairs & markets Dodo alive to fresh ideas
■ Firm based in former pub with 19 dealers now ready to launch regular two-day event
Joan Porter reports
THE Old Cock Inn in Olney, a market town in Buckinghamshire, close to the Bedfordshire border, is now Dodo Antiques, owned for the past 18 months by Barry
Edwards and Owain Harrison. The pair are doing well with their
19-dealer strong antiques centre, including themselves, selling all the
Setbacks over and Grantham is all go
AFTER a series of setbacks, Newark-based B2B Events are powering towards their second Grantham Antiques, Vintage and Design Fair at Arena UK, a 500-acre international equestrian centre by the A1 between Grantham and Newark. The biannual fair was launched last
May but the second, scheduled for October, was cancelled due to planning issues and the third planned for the weekend of April 21/22 was postponed due to date clashes with fairs elsewhere, hampering bookings. However, the sun is shining now on
organisers Helen Martin and Alan Yourston for Grantham’s rescheduled fair dates, on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 19-20. Buyers will get a double whammy as
IACF Newark runs on the following two days: Thursday and Friday, June 21-22. Helen said: ”We have the capacity
for 200 exhibitors inside and at the moment we are half full, and close by we have a popular furniture pavilion. Plenty of good vintage, retro, collectables and smalls of all sorts. We’ve had a good response to the £70 stands outside.” Inside, and as a taster, from Scotland
come Paisley-based Terry McCafferty, with quality vintage clothing, and Edinburgh-based Pierre Defresne, offering antique costume jewellery. Rebecca Cashen of Retro Bazaar in Buckinghamshire has retro vintage pieces and Sue Farnell of North Yorkshire will be selling clocks and watches. Call B2B on 01636 676531. IACF are
on 01636 702326 send fair s and mark ets information to joan porter at
fairs@atgmedia.com
usuals, such as the current faves, antiquities and taxidermy. They now want to bring yet more business in by launching a regular two-day monthly antiques fair outside the centre with the fi rst on Saturday and Sunday, June 30 and July 1. As well as the centre’s own dealers,
Barry and Owain are looking for ten quality dealers to take pitches – two days at £70. Their main reason for launching this fair is to raise £8000 for the Make a Wish Foundation UK, a charity granting wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses. Call Barry or Owain on 01234 240505
Right: Barry Edwards, seated, and Owain Harrison, owners of Dodo Antiques in Olney, Buckinghamshire, who are launching a monthly fair to be held in marquees outside their antiques centre.
School learns how to earn funds thanks to a bi-monthly fl eamarket
SINCE the cuts in government funding many schools and colleges are looking at independent initiatives to boost incomes. One such is The John Fisher School, one of the foremost
Catholic boys school in the country, founded in 1929 and now a state secondary specialist sports college in the leafy outskirts of Purley at Parkes Hill in Surrey. The school has hit on the money-making idea of holding
a bi-monthly Sunday fl eamarket at the college to raise funds for the redevelopment of the college’s science facilities. Three
Surrey sisters are doing it for themselves
INTERIOR designer and dealer Jane Alexander and her sister Debbie, a fashion designer, believe they’ve found a gap in the market in leafy Surrey for a well-organised, smallish monthly fair offering good quality antiques from a group of selected dealers. They should certainly see some locals coming through the doors at
Cobham Village Hall, near the centre of town, at the fi rst of these on Saturday, June 30. The pair, as Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs, have signed up 24 dealers so far, specialising in Oriental wares, treen, Art Nouveau glass and silver, including Neil Hooper from Hertfordshire with this ornate box,
pictured left, carved with the date 1685.
halls packing in 200 stands are available, with one for retro and textiles where there has been most interest, and 500 vehicle pitches on the day on the large site. The market has the benefi t of being the only one in the area
at the weekends so it is bound to be popular. Contact Peter Mills on 020 8660 6254
Right: a great many ceramists sculpt birds with varying degrees of the ‘wow factor’, but one who really pulls it off is Anthony Theakston, from Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. Anthony and his collection of owls and herons, sculpted in plaster and cast in ceramic, is starting to
have an international following and he and birds will be at the Earth and Fire International Ceramics Fair, at Rufford Abbey near Nottingham, from June 22-24. This Stalking Purple Heron, 14 x 14.6in (34 x 37cm), is priced at £240.
www.anthonytheakstonceramics.co.uk
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