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Portobello Road
Portobello Road antiques market is the largest in the UK. The
market consists of street stalls, antiques shops and antiques
arcades that house many different dealers.
The market takes place mainly on Saturdays. Opening times range
from 7.00am- 6.00pm, but it is best to go early as many dealers
start to pack up from 4.00pm. Some of the antiques shops and
arcades are open on other days of the week, particularly Fridays.
Details of many of the traders and arcades can be seen on the
Portobello Antiques Dealers
Association website
Portobello Antiques Arcades
The antiques arcades are a unique feature of Portobello.
The entrances are often obscured by the stalls in
front but do persevere as these lead to labyrinths of
stalls offering a host of different types of antiques.
The antiques arcades are:
No 65 Roger's Antique Gallery - this
arcade goes back a surprisingly long way.
No.s 67-69 and 73 Chelsea Galleries, Portobello
Road - this three shop gallery is a U shape.
No. 75 Gallery 75
open all week, except Sunday, with a large high
standard stock.
Gallery 91
No.s 101 -103 Portobello Studios and
Teapot Arcade
Portobello Gallery - this small entrance, just
before the junction with Westbourne Grove, leads to a
cavenous arcade that in turn leads out to Westbourne
Grove.
No 121 The Silver Fox
No 125 The Central Gallery
No.s 141 -149 Admiral Vernon Antique Arcade -
Portobello's largest antiques arcade with two floors of dealers and
a small cafe.
No.s 155-157 Dolphin Arcade
No.s 161 -163 Harris' Arcade, Portobello
Road
No.s 165-169 Red Lion Arcade
No.s 173-175 Portwine Gallery this
U-shaped gallery has been in the family since 1905 and has over 30
stalls selling a wide range of collectable items, large and
small,including walking sticks, toys, prints, vintage
clothes and textiles
Portobello Road Antiques shops
No 82 Henry Gregory, 82 Portobello Road -
specialises in sporting memorabilia
No 88 specialises in eastern antiques
No 79 Portobello Antique Store
No 81 Judy Fox Antiques www.judy-fox.com/
Victorian and Edwardian furniture as well as
decorative 19th century sculpture and objets d'art.
No 83 Barham Antiques www.barhamantiques.co.uk/
specialises in epergnes and boxes of all types - stationery boxes,
jewellery boxes, writing boxes
No 87 The Clock Centre www.clockcentre.com/
specialises in the sales and repairs of all types
of antique clocks and watches
No 109 Portobello Print and Map Shop
www.portobelloprintandmap.co.uk/
deals in original antique prints,maps, engravings and specialise in
foreign map
No 111 Atlam http://www.atlam-watches.co.uk/ silver
and antique pocket watches.
No 123 Rezai's Antique Persian
carpets
No 144 Kleanthous www.kleanthous.com/
deals in antique watches, clocks, silver,
furniture and works of art
No 146 Delehar
No 159 The Panton Gallery
Golborne Road
Golborne Road has the reputation for being how Portobello
was 20 years ago: plenty of real junk but also the place to pick up
on new trends. Les Couilles du
Chien, 65 Golborne Road has highly
eclectic stock, while Ollies, 67 Golborne Road,
offers mainly furniture.
Kensington Church Street
The antiques dealers in
Kensington Church Street are quite up market offering Oriental
Ceramics & Works of Art, European Pottery and Porcelain,
English and Continental Furniture, Silver, Paintings and Prints,
Arms and Walking Canes, Glass, Mirrors, Books, Clocks and 20th
Century Decorative Arts.
King’s Road
The
Bourbon Hanby Antiques Centre
151 Sydney Street, just off the King's Road, offers jewellery,
siverware and collectables.
Auction Houses
Lotts Road
www.lotsroad.com
Christies
www.christies.com
Bonhams www.bonhams.com
Trivia -
Antiques trading in Portobello Road started after the second world
war when unemployed ex-servicemen set up stalls in the market to
sell items they had brought back from the Far East.