Wilts Fair at Swindon: April 19

[Westwardprogs]

The first Programme and Memorabilia Fair to be held in Wiltshire for several years will take place in the Legends Lounge at the County Ground, Swindon, SN1 2ED, on Sunday April 19 (10.30am - 1.30pm).
The event will cater for the full range of the hobby - something for everyone!
Admission £1, under-18's free. All adult patrons will be entered into a free raffle with three prizes of a bottle of wine each (to be drawn at 12 noon).
Confirmed stall holders (in no particular order) are:
Roger and Tony Coombs (Cardiff based): Largest dealers in Wales with an incredible range of programmes and memorabilia, strong on Welsh material.
Martin Lane (London based): Chelsea specialist who also carries a wide range of items from other clubs.
Paul Plowman (Swindon based); A specialist in Swindon programmes, books and memorabilia who runs the website swindonfc1879.com.
Bill Priddy (Portsmouth based): A well-known and widely-respected stockist of an extensive football memorabilia items.
Tom Roe (Lancashire based): Well-known dealer with a fascinating array of to quality antique items, including autographed menu cards and photos.
Soccer History (Lincolnshire based): Produce a magazine devoted to the history of the world's greatest game.
Terry's Badges (Home Counties based): Has a huge selection of badges, mainly Non-League, and regularly has stalls at AFC Wimbledon and Wycombe Wanderers.
Westward Programmes (Plymouth based): Event organiser and programme specialist, with a particular bias towards West Country clubs.
Swindon Town Supporters Club and Swindon Town Supporters Trust will also have stalls.
Decisions are awaited on three other potential stall holders who are yet to confirm.
For more details phone 01752-773039 or email [email protected]

[Westwardprogs]

I am pleased to announce that we have an additional stall-holder:
PETER SLEEMAN (Kent-based): An avid Plymouth Argyle collector, he is using this occasion to sell a wide range of programmes, cards and other memorabilia from many different clubs that are surplus to his own current requirement. Happy to receive wants lists in advance Email: [email protected]

[pompey gaz]

Great shame that it clashes with the Pompey fair at Fratton Park , I would like to have attended this one as well

[Westwardprogs]

Hi all,

The venue at the Legends Lounge at Swindon is really spacious, so I could easily squeeze some extra stalls in for the Wiltshire Fair on Sunday week (April 19).

The cost of a single 6ft oblong table stall is only £15 - or £20 for two tables. There is also ample free parking immediately outside the venue.

If you have some programmes, tickets, books or other memorabilia that you need to clear, and want to make a couple of bob please give me a ring or drop me an email - you can become a dealer for the day!

Gordon
01752-773639
[email protected]

[Westwardprogs]

Having assembled a good number of stall-holders who cover the whole range of our hobby, I'm hoping for a healthy number of collectors coming to the County Ground on Sunday, as in an ideal world I would like to make it an annual fair.
In addition to posters on display at the County Ground for the past two months plus mentions in the Club Programme, I've invested over £200 in paid adverts in Programme Monthly, Non League Paper, League Football Paper and Swindon Evening Advertiser tomorrow and on Friday to boost awareness of the event amongst collectors.
Below are listed some of the vintage programmes, mainly those involving involving South West and South Wales clubs that I plan to bring - anyone wishing to reserve items in advance should email me before 10pm on Friday via [email protected]:

PRE-1940’s
CHELSEA RESERVES:
26/27 v TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR (Single Sheet; in excellent condition; no obvious defects) £25
PRE-1950’s
ENGLAND:
45 v SCOTLAND (at Villa Park; Pirate by Victor, 4pp, excellent condition apart from feint horizontal and vertical folds, and three minor stains on front cover, all clear of text) £25,
47 v FRANCE (At Arsenal; Good condition apart from a small feint stain and tiny tear at the foot of the front cover £35
49 v ITALY (At Tottenham; Excellent condition; no obvious defects) £35,
F A CUP FINAL:
48 BLACKPOOL v MANCHESTER UNITED (Good condition apart from thr effects of minor staple rust, evidence of tape on spine and two small scuffs on rear cover) £48,
ALDERSHOT:
45/46 v TORQUAY UNITED (League South Cup; Excellent condition; no obvious defects) £22, 47/48 v SWINDON TOWN (8pp; Good condition apart from feint vertical fold) £16, v EXETER CITY (Excellent condition apart from feint horizontal fold) £18, 48/49 v BRISTOL ROVERS (Excellent condition apart from minor staple rust) £14, v SWINDON TOWN (Excellent condition apart from neatly written ‘70’ in top corner of front cover and slight paper fade) £16,
ARSENAL:
48/49 v PORTSMOUTH (Good condition apart from name on front, score and scorers neatly written on centre pages) £12,
ARSENAL RESERVES:
47/48 v BRISTOL CITY (Excellent condition apart from horizontal and vertical folds long since flattened out) £15
BIRMINGHAM CITY:
47/48 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Good condition, apart from one minor restoration repair) £18, 49/50 v PORTSMOUTH (Good condition apart from feint vertical and horizontal folds and staple missing) £12
BRENTFORD:
45/46 v NEWPORT COUNTY (Excellent condition; no obvious defects) £20, v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition apart from neatly written team change, score and scorers on team panel) £20
47/48 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition apart from small stain and ‘17’ written neatly on front cover) £18,
48/49 v LINCOLN CITY (Good condition apart from a feint vertical fold and slight fading of the paper) £14, 49/50 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition apart from feint horizontal and vertical fold) £12, v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition apart from feint horizontal and vertical folds and neatly written team changes and score on team panel) £12, v BURNLEY (Good condition apart from a feint vertical fold, two small marks on the front cover and a hole caused by a rusted staple that has fallen out) £12,
BRISTOL CITY:
48/49 v NORTHAMPTON TOWN (Excellent condition apart from small marks on back cover) £14
CARDIFF CITY:
48/49 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Good condition apart from minor staple rust and several small stains) £14
CHELSEA:
45/46 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition apart from a feint horizontal fold long since flattened out) £22,
FULHAM:
46/47 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition apart from neatly written scores on half-time and fixtures panels) £19,
47/48 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (CHRISTMAS DAY, Excellent condition apart from neatly-written pencil score on team panel) £18,
48/49 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition apart from feint horizontal and vertical folds, score written on front and team changes) £14,
LEYTON ORIENT:
47/48 v SWINDON TOWN (Excellent condition apart from two minute tears) £18,
LINCOLN CITY:
48/49 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Good condition apart from everal minute holes along feint vertical and horizontal folds) £14
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE:
47/48 A highly-collectable programme printed on different coloured flimsy pulp paper due to supply shortages:
• v CARDIFF CITY (Excellent condition, printed on BUFF YELLOW pulp paper, with no obvious defects) (NB Two other coloured pulp papers were used for the programmes for this match: PURPLE and BLUE) £22,
47/48 (all of these are on white paper): v BRENTFORD (Excellent condition with no obvious defects) £18, v LUTON TOWN (FAC, Excellent confition apart from neatly written pencil team changes and slight staple rust) £18,v LUTON TOWN (FAC; Excellent condition apart from minor staple rust and a feint vertical fold) £18, , v BURY (Excellent condition apart from minor staple rust; no other defects) £18, v FULHAM (Good condition apart from minor crease on cover, neatly written team changes, mild staple rust and a small stain on the front cover) £18, v DONCASTER ROVERS (Good condition apart from small mark on front cover, neatly written team changes, minor rust, no staple and small spine splits) £17, v COVENTRY CITY (Excellent condition apart from a feint vertical fold long since flattened out and minor staple rust) £18,
48/49 v BURY (Excellent condition apart from staple missing and minor rust marks) £18; v COVENTRY CITY (Excellent condition apart from minor staple rust) £18, v NOTTS COUNTY (FAC, Excellent condition, no obvious defects) £16,
49/50 v SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY (Excellent condition apart from two torn corners on two pages) £10, v PRESTON NORTH END (Excellent condition apart from minor staple rust) £12, v WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS (FAC; Excellent condition apart from minor staple rust) £12, v SHEFFIELD UNITED (Excellent condition apart from a speck of staple rust) £12,
PORTSMOUTH:
47/48 v STOKE CITY (Excellent condition apart from slight paper fade) £16
QUEENS PARK RANGERS:
46/47 v POOLE TOWN (FAC; excellent condition apart from feint vertical and horizontal folds) £18,
47/48 v TORQUAY UNITED (Good condition apart from a very feint horizontal fold along which there is a very small tear) £18,
48/49 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition apart from slight staple rust) £14, v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition, no obvious defects apart from minor staple rust) £12,
READING:
46/47 v SWINDON TOWN (Good condition apart from a feint horizontal fold) £20, v SWINDON TOWN (Excellent condition; no obvious defects) £20,
SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY:
48/49 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Good condition apart from feint vertical and horizontal folds and a tiny scuff at the top of the front cover) £12
SOUTHAMPTON:
49/50 v BARNSLEY (Good condition apart from feint horizontal folds, two tiny slits along one fold and some paper fade at the top edge of the front cover) £12,
SWINDON TOWN:
45/46 v BRISTOL CITY (CHRISTMAS DAY; Excellent condition; no obvious defects) £20,
46/47 v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Excellent condition apart from feint horizontal and vertical folds) £20, v PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (Good condition apart from feint stain and scorers marked on team panel) £20
48/49 v LEYTON ORIENT (Excellent condition apart from missing staple) £14
SWINDON TOWN RESERVES:
47/48 v CREYSTAL PALACE RESERVES (8pp; Good condition from feint horizontal fold; staple removed) £16,
TORQUAY UNITED:
48/49 v SWINDON TOWN (Excellent condition apart from feint vertical fold) £14

[bazzad]

Hi all,

I can't make it to the Wiltshire Fair this week-end but just wanted to wish organiser Gordon Bennett, and all attending a successful fair.
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Barry Dixey
Football Memoribilia
(mob) 07887 808102
[email protected]

[Westwardprogs]

Thanks for the good wishes, Barry. There are just two other things I want to mention:
First, my grateful thanks to the Swindon Town Supporters Trust for their assistance in boosting awareness of the Fair by circulating full details to all their 2,000 members. Much appreciated!
Second, we welcome a late additional stall-holder, making it 12 stalls in total:
JOHN KAVENAGH: (Lancashire-based): A card specialist who also has a wide range of Memorabilia and Programmes.

[pafcprogs]

two fairs in two weeks....

I shall be bringing the following

Selection of Plymouth homes from the 1940's onwards
Strong selection of Plymouth reserves and friendlies
large selection of Torquay, Bristol Rovers& City
Welsh Clubs including a load of Barry town
Non league selection, especially Guildford Barnet and South western clubs
Spurs late 50's to sixties including Double season
FA Cup Finals & Semis
League Cup Finals & Semis
Internationals
Corinthian figures
Pinnace and other football cards


If anyone has specific requirements or wants lists the PM me or email to [email protected]

Cheers

Peter
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Currently disposing of my collection so please email any wants lists to [email protected].
Most Plymouth post 1959 but plenty of others including reserves, friendlies, Cup Finals Internationals and Club issues, handbooks and other sports.

[cfcmartin1965]

Really looking forward to having a stall at this fair having lived in Swindon in the late 1980's to early 1990's & haven't been back for a while.

Cannot bring all my stock with me so if any members are going on sunday please check my website www.football-program.co.uk & let me know if there is anything in particular that you want bringing along.

Cheers
Martin