View of Skipton Auction Market, venue for Bowman Fairs’ fleamarket.
Helen Bowman and Ben Wray of Bowman Fairs launched their first fleamarket earlier this month in the unusual setting of the Skipton Auction Mart in North Yorkshire. In its daily life, the venue is a cattle market.
“It was an exhausting weekend but the fleamarket was a resounding success,” says Bowman. “We would have liked a few more pens filled – we had 72 sold but the footfall was a shade over 2000 and customers were still arriving at 3pm with only an hour’s worth of trading left.”