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Bristol International Airport
Gateway to the very best of British Antiques!
"Daily flights from New York
to Bristol International Airport in Great Britain are likely to make the West Country a prime destination for US antiques
buyers".
If you plan to
visit the UK to buy English antiques and need to maximize your time, then you need
to consider the following option.
From stepping off your flight you could be..
Down to business within an hour
and have the following at your disposal.
Hundreds of Specialist & General Antique Dealers
Dozens Of Quality Antique Fairs
Over 30 Antique Centres
Over 60 Auction Houses
All within a two hour drive!
Many of these options are available 7 days a week,
or open by appointment.
From the 19th May 2005
Continental Airlines launches a
daily non-stop service between New York/Newark and Bristol.
Time saving will be an important factor for any antique buyer to consider
when booking Continental to Bristol. The Airport is comparatively
congestion free and arriving antique buyers can literally get down to
business within an hour or so of collecting their bags from the aircraft!
Together with some
thoughtful scheduling the service allows for a full day's business to be
conducted on both arrival in the UK and prior to departure back to the
States. The 172 seat Boeing 757-200 aircraft will depart New York/Newark daily
at 8:55 pm, arriving Bristol at 8:55 am the next day with a flying time of
approximately seven hours, the return flight departing from Bristol at
11:10am arriving back in Newark at 14.00pm mid-day with a flight time of
about eight hours.
The new service is not only restricted to visitors from central and
eastern USA, as Continental is the only major airline to operate a hub at
Newark Liberty International Airport and the Bristol flights have been
conveniently timed to connect with their extensive network of service
throughout the USA, Canada and Latin America.
Bristol International Airport is located 8 miles south of the City of
Bristol and within 15 miles of the world heritage city of Bath,
which with the surrounding towns has possibly some of the finest antiques
dealers to be found in Britain. Furthermore Bristol is only a
very short distance, about twenty miles from the southern edge of the
Cotswolds, which apart from it's outstanding natural beauty is home
to dozens of reputable antiques specialists in the towns of Tetbury, Stow
on the Wold, Moreton in Marsh, Chipping Camden, Burford and Lechlade
to name just a few.
Westerly into Wales
is very accessible by road, search out our database for Welsh country
furniture, or if books are you market, Hay on Wye more than lives up to
it's reputation as the 'Town of Books'.
Similarly, a little over an hour or so from the airport in a southerly
direction is the small market town of Honiton, Devon where you will
find a varied selection of more than 20 antique dealers with others to
be found in nearby villages. Whilst in an easterly direction Hungerford
has over 15 quality dealers plus 2 antique centres and you
should be able to reach the town in a little under two hours from the airport.
If that doesn't sound enough, the area abounds with some excellent antique
fairs, notably at the Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet.
The showground is home to a very large fair on weekends six times a year
by one organiser and a very well supported Flea market held on a
regular basis by another organiser. There is also a very large event held
five times a year at West Point Exhibition Centre near Exeter which
has a capacity of up to 500 exhibitors and the monthly antiques &
collectors Sunday fair at Malvern which is less than two hours drive away
from the airport. To numerous to mention here, there are also many,
smaller fairs which may be checked on our database.
Also within easy reach of Bristol Airport is a selection of excellent
antique centres, the nearest will be found in Bath, but worth the few
extra miles in Gloucester at the dockside, nearby Tetbury now has five
centres and Hungerford with two.
The whole area also
has numerous salerooms with a vast range of items, some have weekly
general sales and many scheduled specialist sales. At our last count there
were over 60 entries for salerooms in our database, and we're still
adding to the list.
Summing up, possibly within about 80 miles in all directions, there will be found more contacts that will keep even
the most ardent collector and discerning antique buyer busy for at least a
week or more!
And finally if you need a few days to unwind after your tour, what could
be better than a visit to some of the beautiful and picturesque towns and
villages of Somerset, Devon or Cornwall. |
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