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Vintage Market, St Peters Street,
St Albans, AL1 3DH. 9am-3pm. Free.
07502 213873;
stalbansantiqueandvintagemarket.com
22nd-23rd Antique, Collectors &
Vintage Fair, Nottingham Racecourse,
Racecourse Road, Nottingham, NG2
4BE. 8am-5pm Saturday, 9am-4pm
Sunday. £3 (£4 before 9am Saturday).
01332 830444; jaguarfairs.com
24th Runway Monday at Newark
Antiques and Collectors Fair,
adjacent to the Newark Air Museum
and The Newark & Nottinghamshire
Showground, Runway Newark, Newark,
Nottinghamshire, NG24 2NY.
8am-5pm. £10 (8am-10am), £5 (10am
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Frank onwards). 01636 702326; iacf.co.uk
AUCTION OF THE MONTH Hurley with a movie camera filming 29th-1st March Antiques,
the Endurance; Shackleton and a small Collectors & Vintage Weekend,
crew heading off in the James Caird to
seek rescue; camping on the ice. Brooksby Hall, Brooksby, Melton
26th February, Travel and Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE14 2LJ.
Exploration, Bonhams 8.30am-4pm Saturday, 9.30am-4pm
Sunday. £3 (£5 before 9.30am
Every February in London, Bonhams holds Books and Manuscripts at Bonhams. ‘We Saturday). 07772 349431;
a sale associated with celebrated feats usually sell individual Hurley photographs. fielddogfairs.com
of travel and exploration. Last year, a What’s also exciting is that this is a newly
sledge from Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod discovered presentation album. There
expedition to the South Pole in 1907-09 were only six recorded – including one in South
went under the hammer. This month’s the Royal Collection that was delivered to
auction is no exception and continues the king, and two at Dulwich College. 1st Vintage & Very Nice Market
the Shackleton theme. This one has been owned by a private Bazaar, The Assembly Rooms,
One outstanding item that has been UK collector and it’s been in her family for North Street, Chichester,
catalogued for the sale is a newly 40 years. She doesn’t know where it PO19 1LQ. 10am-4pm. Free.
discovered deluxe presentation album of came from. vintageandverynice.co.uk
Frank Hurley’s photographs documenting ‘The images are in a chronological 2nd Alexandra Palace Antiques
the expedition to Antarctica between sequence, beginning with penguins in & Collectors Fair, Alexandra Palace,
1914-16, showing Shackleton and his South Georgia and the ship entering the Alexandra Palace Way, London,
team on board the ship Endurance (est pack ice, ending with the vessel being N22 7AY. 9.30am-4.30pm. £6.
£30,000-£40,000). A few miles from crushed by ice and the final rescue of the 01636 702326; iacf.co.uk
Antarctica, the ship became trapped in crew. It’s almost time-lapse photography 11th & 25th Sunbury Antiques
ice in the Weddell Sea. of the ship being gradually destroyed.’ Market, Kempton Park Racecourse,
Australian Frank Hurley was the official Hurley had to choose, with Shackleton, Staines Road East, Sunbury-on-Thames,
photographer for the expedition, joining 120 plates to keep, before smashing the Middlesex, TW16 5AQ. 6.30am-2pm.
Endurance in Buenos Aires on 12th remaining 400 as they would have been Free. 01932 230946;
October 1914. When the ship became too heavy for the crew to carry, along sunburyantiques.com
stuck, Hurley photographed the activities with other supplies and stores recovered 16th The Tree of Ages Antiques
of the crew and the dogs (who were from the ship. Fair, Robert Denholm House,
moved off the boat and housed in kennels This album contains 79 prints, including Bletchingley Road, Nutfield,
built into the ice), who had to make camp photographs of the crew on board, Surrey, RH1 4HW. 9am-3pm. £2.
on the frozen landscape, occupy spectacular images of the stranded ship 01293 781075; treeofages.co.uk
themselves and survive as the months surrounded by blocks of ice, the departure 16th The London Vintage Fashion,
passed. When the ship began to of Shackleton and five others in the James Textiles & Accessories Fair, Hilton
disintegrate in October 1915 after being Caird whaler heading out to seek rescue, London Olympia Hotel, 380 Kensington
crushed, Hurley spent almost three days and the last photograph taken of the High Street, London, W14 8NL.
outside trying to capture the vessel’s wreck as it succumbed to the sea. 10.30am-4.30pm. £5.
final moments. 020 8543 3028; pa-antiques.co.uk
‘It’s an awful lot of pictures in one Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London, SW7 16th Sandown Antiques Market,
album,’ says Matthew Haley, Head of 1HH. 020 7393 3900; bonhams.com Sandown Park Racecourse, Portsmouth
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