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Free pitches at new Clacton car boot sale
Organisers of the new car boot sale at the Lakeside public house in St. Osyth, Clacton On Sea, Essex are offering free pitches to all sellers until the end of March 2009!
The free pitch offer is to help the car boot sale, which takes place on Saturday mornings throughout the year, to get established quickly.
For more details phone 07533 885 65.
Vase bought at car boot sale sells for £32,450
A vase that was bought for £1 by an anonymous woman at a boot sale in Dumfries has been sold at auction for £32,450.
The true value of the car boot item emerged at the filiming of an episode of the TV programme, Antiques Roadshow. Experts identified it as the work of French designer René Lalique whose work has become increasingly collectable.
It was then put up for auction by Christies of London on the 12th of November 2008 where it fetched £32,450.
Half price stalls at new Harpenden boot sale this weekend
The new hard standing car boot sale at Harpenden Train Station car park opens this Sunday, the 26th of October 2008.And to celebrate, all pitches will be half price.
A car pitch will cost just £5 instead of the normal £10 and a van size pitch will cost just £7.50.
The car boot sale will take place every sunday from 8am to 2pm (except Christmas) and there is room for 400 traders.
For more information phone Dan on 01707 873360.
Drawings found at boot sale expected to fetch £6,000
Drawings bought at a car boot sale for £10 two years ago are expected to fetch up to £6,000 when they go on sale at auction on the 15th of October 2008.
The three drawings of Auchenbothie Lodge in Kilmalcolm, Renfrewshire were done by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the famous Scottish architecht and designer.
They were found in a bag of items bought for just £10 at a car boot sale in Glasgow and go on sale at Bonham's in Edinburgh where they are expected to sell for betwen £4,000 and £6,000.
£400 raised by Air Ambulance volunteers at car boot sale
Congratulations to the staff of John Taylor Funeralcare who raised money for the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance at a recent car boot sale.
Selling from no less than five vehicles including a camper van, the staff members managed to raise more than £400 for the local air paramedic operation that is voluntary run.
Nurses hold car boot sale to raise money for hospital in Nepal
Two nurses from the Isle of Arran in Scotland are holding a car boot sale on Easter Sunday (March the 22nd) to raise funds to help set up a hospital in Nepal.
The boot sale takes place at the Balmichael Visitor Centre in Shiskine on the Isle of Arran (KA27 8DT for all you sat navvers) between 10am and 12 noon, with sellers arriving from 9.30am ( £5 per car pitch).
Sally Bambridge and Pearl White will spend three weeks in Baruwa, in the Helambu region of Nepal, north of Kathmandu, helping set up a hospital for people who currently have no such facilities in the area.
£2 car boot sale LP sells for £4,000
An autographed Rolling Stones album bought at a car boot sale in Derbyshire has sold at auction for £4,000!
The 1976 Black and Blue LP Experts think the album was bought at a car boot sale for just £2 - after the buyer managed to get a pound knocked off the asking price. It was only later that he realised that thje sleeve had been signed by not onlty members of the Stones, bnut also John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney and George Harrison.
The LP was sold at auction last month by Bamfords auctioneers for £4,000.
Is your boot sale buy worth a small fortune? Ask Flog It!
The BBC's popular antiques programme, Flog It, is out and about over the coming months, looking to value your boot sale finds and unearth some hidden gems that can go forward to auction.
Previous programmes have seen a ceramic bowl bought for £4 at a car boot sale selling for a whopping £1,500 at auction - so if you think you have unearthed a hidden treasure at a boot sale why not take it along to one of the forthcoming Flog It valuation days?
Sunday 13 January - Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon
Sunday 20 January - St Albans Town Hall, Market Place, St Albans
Sunday 3 February - Kings Hall, Stoke-on-Trent
Sunday 10 February - Pannier Market, Tavistock
Doors open at 9.30am until 4pm.
Woodley Shopping Centre boot sales to end?
The monthly car boot sales held at Woodley Shopping Centre in Woodley, Berkshire, may be at an end with no plans in place to hold them there in 2008.
Normally ten sales are held every year - none take place in November or December because of the Woodley Winter Extravaganza and Christmas. The current organiser pays Woodley Town Centre’s Management Initiative £200 a year to hire the site, but has no plans to run boot sales at the shopping centre next year.
Three sales have had to be cancelled this year because of bad weather and that together with competition from other local boot sales meant that the organiser actually lost money during 2007 - hence the decision not to continue when the sales are due to restart in January.
Football medal bought at car boot sale sells for £6,400
A Champions League winning football medal that was bought for £10 at a car boot sale in London has sold at auction for a whopping £6,400!
The medal, which dates from Manchester United's Champions League winning 1996-97 season, was bought as part of a box of trinkets for just £10 at a boot sale in Peckham, South East London.
After discovering the medal in the box, the anonymous buyer took it to an auction house who confirmed it was genuine.
And when it went under the hammer at an auction in Ludlow, Shropshire, at the start of October it sold for £6,400!
Keep 'em peeled as Shaw Taylor used to say!
Kidderminster boot sale gets go ahead at Swan Centre
The Swan Centre in Kidderminster is to be home to a new boot sale following approval from Wyre Forest District Council for car boot sales to take place on Sundays throughout the year with the exception of Easter Sunday.
The car boot sale will be held over three floors of the multi-storey car park between 8am and 1.30pm. As well as 62 pitches for cars and small vans, space will be made available for tables for anyone without a car to set up stall.
The boot sales will start from January 2008, but there will also be two sales in November - on the 4th and the 18th. To pre-book a pitch call 01562 753210.
Car Booty TV show looking for car boot addicts for new series
If you're addicted to car boot sales and never come home empty handed, or just love to fill your home with collectables, then BBC 1's Car Booty is looking for you!
The highly successful show Car Booty is returning for an astonishing 10th series and the team are looking for people to empty their lofts and garages of antiques and collectables and turn them into a veritable fortune!
So if you'd like some expert help to really get your money’s worth from your bargain buys and family heirlooms, call the Car Booty team on 0207 704 3300.
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Latest Boot Fairs Added
British Pilot Boot Fair
British Pilot Pub,
Avery Way, Allhallows, Rochester, Kent ME3 9QJ
Phone 07920006478
Every Sunday all year
Times: 6am
Pitch: £5 car £10 van £15 big van - phone for pitch places
Entry: £1 adults, kids and oaps free
Free parking, toilets, good food, bounce castle, slide.
Sunday roast from 12pm must phone and book dinners
listed under Kent car boot fairs
Bushey's Brand New Giant Outdoor Car Boot Sale
Little Bushey Lane, Bushey, Watford WD25 8JS
Behind Costco at junction with Hartspring Lane
Phone 07751 235439
Sundays 14 June 2009 to 4 October 2009
Times: 10.00-3.00pm Gates open 8.30 am
Pitch: Cars/Small Vans £10. Large Vans from £12
Entry: £1 before 10.00am - 30p after 10.00am
Refreshments/WC facilites. Free parking on site for 300+ cars.
Accompanied children under 16 free.
listed under Herts car boot sales
Windy Harbour Car Boot Sale
Grange Road, Singleton, Poulton Le Fylde FY6 8LP
Directions--M6(J32), M55(J3) - A585 (Fleetwood Road) towards Fleetwood, travel 3 miles along this road ignoring all signs to Singleton and Poulton-le-Fylde (do not turn into Singleton). You will eventually pass some cottages on your left hand side called Fisher Slack Cottages, take the next left into Grange Road (country lane) just before Ditchfield Glass
Phone Number: 07984 355264
Every Wednesday From June to October
Times: Sellers & Buyers From 7am
Toilets and refreshments on site
listed under Lancashire car boot sales
Brentside High School Car Boot Sale
(Kajima Community's Facility)
Greenford Avenue, Hanwell, London W7 1JJ
Phone 07805 602482
Every Sunday - throughout the year
Times: Sellers: 8.30am-3.00pm Buyers: 9.00am-3.00pm
Pitch: £10 per car. Vans / larger vehicles from £15
Entry: 50p from 9.30am (£1 before)
Open all year round. Late booters are welcome. Hardstanding outdoor carboot. All carboot traders welcome as well as walk-ons. Refreshments incl. hamburger stand, Indian vegetarian food. WC facilities as well as limited spaces for disabled parking. My Fayres give a loyalty card to all sellers - come 8 times and the 9th time is FREE!
listed under London car boot sales
Forstal Road Boot Fair
Forstal Road,
Aylesford,
Maidstone,
Kent
Phone 07960668160
Every Sunday from 24th May 2009
Times: 6.30am
Pitch: £8 per car £10 per van
Entry: 50p
listed under Kent car boot sales
Lazybones Boot Sale
The Village Hall, Hollym, Near Withernsea, East Yorkshire
Phone 07791 310821
Saturdays March - October
Times: sellers 10.30am Buyers 11.30am-3pm
Pitch: £6
Indoor boot sale with food & refreshments. Local crafts welcome!
listed under Yorkshire boot sales
Arthur's Friendly Bootfair
Stocks Green Road,
Hildenborough, Kent
Phone 07896280902
Every other Sunday from 24 May to 27 September 2009
Times: From 6am for sellers 7am for buyers
Pitch: £5.00p for All
Entry: 50p
Parking, toilets, hot and cold food
listed under Kent boot fairs
Brentons Car Boot Sale
Brentons Coach House, 27 Fordmill Road, Catford, London SE6 3JL
5 minutes walk from Catford High Street down Canadian Avenue
Phone020 8698 6834
Every Saturday and Bank Holiday Monday mornings All Year Round
Times: 06.30 for sellers 07.00 onwards for buyers
Pitch: £10.00 Car £15.00 Large Van
Entry: Free until June
All Hardstanding site, large undercover area (150 stalls) for inclement weather/winter, ample free parking outside venue, refreshments, ice cream van, toilets, all provided on site.
listed under London car boot sales
Winchester Football Club Car Boot Sale
Winchester Football Club, Hillier Way, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 7SU
Phone 07974223389
From Sunday May 24th 2009 and every Sunday thereafter
Times: 0730 for sellers, 0830 for buyers
Pitch: £4 Car - £6 Van
Entry: Kids Free Adults 20p
The is set to be one of the best car boot sales in the area. With great facilities, lots of parking space, a great club house, refreshments, licensed bar and much more. Come on down and see.
listed under Hampshire car boot sales
Oak Leaf Sports Complex Outdoor Boot Sale
Oak Leaf Sports Complex School, Aycliffe Lane, Newton Aycliffe, Co Durham DL5 6QF
Phone 01325 320319
Every Sunday Afternoon from 24th May to 11th October 2009
Times: Sellers from 11.30am - Buyer from 1pm
Pitch: First two weeks all pitches £5 thereafter £8
Entry: 50p
Bar, restaurant, take away facilities plus picnic area and childrens play area available on site
listed under Durham car boot sales
Dove House Hospice Car Boot Sale
Dove House Hospice, Chamberlain Road, Hull HU8 8DH
Phone: 01482 785743
Every second and fourth Sunday of the month from April 26th 2009 (weathr permitting!)
7.30am Sellers, 9am Buyers
Stall: £6 cars £8 vans / trailers (no pre-booking)
Tables are available to hire on a first come first served basis for £1 (refunded on return)
Entry: 20p
All the money from the pitch fees and refreshments will also be donated to the hospice.
listed under Yorkshire car boot sales
Arminghall Carboot
Old Stoke Rd, Arminghall, Norwich NR14 8SQ
Phone 01603 815069
March-December, Wednesday and Sundays
Times: Wed 9am-1pm, Sun 11am-4pm
Pitch: £7
450+ stalls,flush toilets great site.
listed under Norfolk car boot sales
Tyfields Car Boot Sale
Corner of Brickfield Road, London Road, Vange, Basildon, Essex SS16 4QB
Phone 01702 616301
Every Wednesday - weather permitting
April - October
5.50am-3pm
Cars £8 Vans £9 NO EXTRA FOR TRAILERS!
Entry: 30p adults OAPs and children FREE
Back on our original site of 20 years. Corringham now closed.
listed under Essex car boot sales
Friends of Babington Hospital Car Boot Sale
Babington Hospital,
Derby Road,
Belper,
Derbyshire
DE56 1WH
Phone 07976 827942
Third Sunday in May, July and September 2009
Times: Sellers 7.45am Buyers 8.30am
Pitch: £5
Entry: Free
Free Parking, Toilets,
Hot Drinks, up to 40 stalls!
listed under Derbyshire car boot sales
Carlin How Car Boot Sale
Working Mans Club, Carlin How, near Saltburn
Phone 07748694098
Every Friday afternoon
Times: 3pm sellers 4pm buyers
Pitch: £5
Entry: 30p
Toilets and food available. Stalls are limited.
listed under Cleveland car boot sales
For one-off boot sales taking place this month see further down this page |
One Off Boot Fairs And Car Boot Sales for June 2009 including this weekend!
Saturday 13th June 2009
Aylesford Church
Ferryfield (next to railway crossing),
Station Road,
Aylesford,
Kent ME20
Phone 01622 790220
06.30am sellers
7.00am - 12.00 noon buyers
Pitch: Cars £8 - Vans £10
Entry: Donation to Church Organ Fund
Ample space for both sellers and buyers, refreshments, childrens playground.
Sunday 14th June 2009
FABSS Car Boot
Bramley Sunnyside Junior & Infant School,
off Linden Avenue,
Bramley,
Rotherham
S66 3QW
Phone 07948 998236
Times: 10:00am
Pitch: £6.00 for cars, £10.00 for vans and trailers
Pre-booking essential. No Traders.
Saturday 20th June 2009
Prestonpans Infant and Nursery School Summer Fair & Car Boot Sale
Infant School Grounds,
West Loan,
EH32 9NX
Phone 01875 814525
Times: 8am sellers 10am buyers
Pitch: £10
Entry: £1
Summer Fayre and Car Boot Sale
There will be all the usual fun of the fayre, bouncy castle, tombola, raffle, refreshments, homebaking, ice cream and fun and games galore. Come along and enjoy the fun or clear out your garage and book a pitch. All proceeds raised will benefit the school.
Sunday 28th June 2009
Grey Court School Car Boot Sale
Grey Court School, Sandy Lane, Ham,
Richmond upon Thames
TW10 7HN
Phone 07719 725 724
Times: 8am Sellers, 9am Buyers
Pitch: £10
Entry: 50p
Every now and again a car boot sale is cancelled for one reason or another so always check first with organisers, particularly if you are planning on selling or will be travelling to attend.
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Information published on boot-fairs.co.uk is believed to be correct at the time it is prepared, but please bear in mind that details do change and that some of the content on this website may no longer be correct. Always check with organisers before setting out, particularly if you are planning to sell at a car boot sale and / or will be travelling some distance to attend. And if you spot a mistake please let us know!
2009 Bank Holidays!
Lots of car boot sales start their season with the Easter Bank Holiday. So when is Easter this year? Easter Sunday is on the 12th of April and Easter Monday is the 13th. The Early May Bank Holiday is on the 4th of May and the Spring Bank Holiday is on the 25th of May - look out for boot sales on both. And the Summer Bank Holiday is on Monday the 31st of August 2009 - some of the biggest car boot sales of the year take place that weekend :-)
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