Antiques dealer Tom Boynton, who launched an antiques and vintage fair in May at Huntingdon Racecourse in Cambridgeshire, believes the event could be ready for lift-off.
“We welcomed 70 dealers to the fair in May but have capacity for roughly 400 to 500 traders with potential to expand”, he said ahead of the second staging, on Saturday, July 13.
“We feel that Huntingdon Racecourse is a fantastic location for buyers and dealers to come together as there is not much on in that area, fairs-wise.”
Boynton started dealing in and restoring antique furniture when he was just 17 years old.
Now aged 30 and based in Suffolk, he still specialises in period furniture but also sells a lot of art, silver and lighting. He is an avid fair exhibitor from when he was starting out, standing seven years ago at Hingham Antiques Fair in Norfolk (now known as Easton Antiques Fair. “Since then I’ve been a regular standholder at IACF’s fairs, Kempton Park, the Décor fair at Henley and other fairs in and around London. This has been my full-time job for more than a decade and so I decided to run my own antiques fair and chose Huntingdon Racecourse to try and match some of the bigger fairs.
“I am passionate about the antiques business and I feel that this could be an exciting venture that will go hand in hand with my antiques business.”
