Welcome to the NEW website!

We are so excited with the revamp of our website. Retro Bazaar as a company has been trading for over four years and we thought we needed a lick of paint in our virtual shop front, but we ended up going a little further than that.

The format is much more usable in the ever-changing world of tablets and Smartphones so hopeful our Twitter & Facebook accounts are more visible.

As before you can see our events diary and catch up with us on the road around the country.

We hope you like the new layout and will come and visit us often.


Retro Festival – Here we come!

So looking forward to the Retro Festival this August 8/9/10 – back bigger and better for 2014. We had such a good time last year – great music, fab weather and lots of customers – all you need in a great festival.

This year there is lots to look forward to including:

  • Three Live Music Stages, Dance floors, Show Arena & Air show!
  • 100’s Of Vintage, Classic & American Vehicles!
  • Vintage & Retro Homewears & Clothing Traders plus Auto Jumble!
  • Kids Zone, Food & Bars, 2 Camping Sites!
  • Flying Displays, Classic & Vintage Vehicles, Military Vehicles, Re-Enactors,
  • Steam Engines & Miniature Steam!

Book tickets here – http://www.retrofestival.co.uk/#!buy-festival-tickets/c9ew or phone 01235 538 134

We will be based in the Retro Market and will be bringing the best of our fab stock – radiograms, record players, furniture, funky phones, homewares and deckchairs too! Other sellers will also be offering original vinyl music, authentic vintage fashion, rock n roll reproduction clothing, jewellery, toys, and so much more.

The market also hosts vintage beauty parlours, hair & make-up, barbers, a tattooist, craft sellers, artisans & local produce sellers. Bring cash! You’re gonna need it! However we also take credit cards so you can shop till you drop.

Our Stall at last year's Retro Festival 2013

Our Stall at last year’s Retro Festival 2013


Spring is gone and Summer is upon us

We had a very busy Spring visiting great cities around the country and attending fab antique and vintage fairs. We had a mad March run off our feet with a busy Furniture Flea & Mid Century Show at Dulwich. April saw us in London & Manchester with Judy’s Vintage Fair and in May we attended the second Mid Century Show at Haggerston School. The school was designed by celebrated modernist architect Erno Goldfinger in 1964 who studied under Auguste Perett in Paris. It is the only secondary school designed by Erno Goldfinger and is a grade II listed building. Amazing place and worth a visit in itself. We will be back there in October.

June saw us having a well deserved break, but not before we worked another Newark event with IACF – we love these amazingly huge fairs and it is a buyers and sellers delight. We closed June with a trip to the fab Victoria Baths in Hathersage Manchester, with Vintage Home Show.

We are looking forward to the rest of the summer and will expand on all the events we are attending.


Spotlight on Retro Bazaar

We were featured in March in the Victoria Warehouse Blog as we prepared for the first ‘Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair’ in this amazing building in April 2014.

See the full article here

 


Props Required – Bat Phones to the Rescue!

We had a call from the lovely Jane Kelly who was launching ‘Photoshoot Magazine’ an online quarterly ‘behind-the-scenes’ magazine for photographers, models, make-up artists and other creatives.  Editor Jane and the Photoshoot team are a group of professional photographers, journalists, designers, make-up artists and models who host their own in-house creative shoots and they required Retro props for the cover of the new magazine.

Photoshoot Mgazine

Photoshoot Mgazine

She needed a number of phones so we supplied her with two of our restored GPO red vintage dial telephones to recreate an iconic shot from the 1980s. The phones were featured on the front cover of the first edition of the magazine in Nov 2013 and there was a piece about us in the magazine too!

Photoshoot Article

Photoshoot Website


Vintage Home Show, Bristol Paintworks

We were mentioned in the Homes & Antiques Magazine May 2013 edition when We exhibited at the first ‘Vintage Home Show organised by Keeley Harris held in the Paintworks, located in Bristol’s creative hub. See the full article here

Vintage Home Show, Paintworks, Bristol

Vintage Home Show, Paintworks, Bristol


Keep Calm & Join Retro Bazaar

We are looking for an Intern. So if you have an interest in vintage and retro furniture, technology & design you could be the burberry bags person for us. The position is for 4 months and will be very varied as the successful applicant will learn many burberry london  aspects of running a small business.

If you wish to prove to future employers that you are not afraid of a busy schedule, hard work and have the ability to work in a close knit business burberry outlet london then this could be a stepping stone to your future career

Aspects of the internship include:

  • social networking
  • stock michael kors outlet  photography
  • website population
  • restoration
  • stock control
  • attending festivals & shows

A formal plan will be michael kors purses  devised to help you experience all areas of the business. We are happy to consider full-time or part-time applicants and all age groups.

If you are interested in michael kors handbags uk becoming our intern please send your CV to intern@retro-bazaar.co.uk. Alternatively if you don’t have a formal CV send through an essay on what you love about vintage & retro and why you would like to join us.

 

Qualifications

No formal qualifications required, north face jacket  but an interest in retro, vintage & 20th Century design preferred.

Must be computer literate with a knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel and social media.

This position is for a 4 month unpaid internship, north face uk   however we will generously reimburse your expenses during this time and there may be an opportunity for paid work where we would normally hire temporary staff.


Spring Newsletter

Busy Busy Busy

Well the first months of 2013 have certainly started with a bang! We have had our busiest start to the year since we began this adventure three years ago. We have had amazing online sales and great shows including two fab Furniture Fleas at Bethnal Green (next one 9th June) and a great Mid-Century Modern Show at Dulwich College.

May is looking equally busy with local and London Shows. We are in Milton Keynes, for the first MK Antiques Fair bank holiday weekend (4th– 6th May) and Alexandra Palace on 12th May. We are also off to the sunny South-West on the 19th for the first Vintage Home Show at the Bristol Paintworks – an amazingly quirky venue. For full details of all the shows we are attending go to the events page of our website.

 

Retro B Out & About – Scotland Bound

Typical isn’t it – you wait years for a vintage festival to come to Scotland – then like buses two come at once! In the summer we are coming to Glasgow for the Vintage Festival, part of the Merchant City Festival in July then off to Edinburgh in the autumn for Vintage Nation- a one day extravaganza at the Corn Exchange in October.

As in previous years the Vintage Festival Marketplace is being curated by Judy Berger of Judy’s Affordable Vintage and we’re sure it will be up to her usual high standard. Vintage Nation is Judy’s own Festival creation which had its successful inaugural event in Brighton last year.

We are looking forward to both events and hopefully they will be part of the larger festival season for us.

Remember we can bring most purchases from our website or our eBay shop to shows we are attending to save postage costs!

 

Record Players Galore!

With the resurgence of interest in vinyl the market for our restored record players and radiograms is very buoyant. We were going to enthuse about an amazing Sobell radiogram & bar from the 1950s – but it sold while going to press!

So what else do we have in stock? Well we have just purchased a collection of 11 portable vintage record players from the 1950s – 1970s. We are slowing restoring them and will be bringing them to the shows we are attending in May and they will be starting to appear on the website soon, so please bear with us.

Each record player will be stripped down lubricated and serviced, new stylus, cartridge & valves will be fitted, where needed, and where possible each machine will be adapted for any MP3 player! If you are interested in a record player please drop us a line at enquiries@retro-bazaar.co.uk and we can send through photos.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Facebook for all the latest news, events and stock info.


July Newsletter

Gorgeous George is coming to Vintage Festival 2012!

No not Clooney – this is our Gorgeous George, with Ruby…..and he is coming to Vintage 2012. George is a fully restored 1972 Volkswagen Beetle and he will be on show for the whole of the festival at Broughton House, 13th – 15th July. Come and see him and us there.

Our preparations are well underway for the festival; we are frantically getting stock ready for the show – lots of Retro phones, clocks, lighting, record players, homewares and maybe the odd radiogram if we can fit it on the stall. As we are based near to the show, we will be changing and adding stock daily and can we deliver locally. Visit the Vintage 2012 site for full details of the festival.

 

June Fairs – Vintage Nation

The first ‘Vintage Nation’ one day festival was held at Brighton Racecourse in early June and thankfully the rain managed to hold off for the whole day. The Venue was great and we had the Paddock Box where we set up a whole shop, with help from Lesley of Retropolitan. All this for a day! Mad I know but it looked great.  See the pictures on our Pinterest page.

Sold lots of stock and met lots of lovely vintage folk. Big sellers were luggage, lighting, homewares and the obligatory radiogram. Didn’t get home till 3am – but definitely worth the trip and looking forward to next year.

 

Wow a Radiogram on the Website!

At last one of our fabled radiograms has actually made it to the website – mainly because this one is so good we wanted to share it with everyone before it sells. It’s a Vintage Marconiphone, Model 4304 from the 1950s. Not only an iconic piece of furniture of the period, but a fabulous piece of Vintage technology AND adapted for any MP3 player!

Finished in highly polished teak veneer, with tambour roller doors to the front, and speakers covered in stylised black & silver atomic period material. It stands on ebonised legs, which are removable for easy transportation.

This gorgeous piece of Vintage chic has been given a comprehensive service and is fully working. Click here to see it in all its glory.

Well that’s all for now folks. See you at the Vintage Festival – do pop in and say ‘hi’


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This draw is open to all people who subscribe to the newsletter via the website or at any show we are attending from 11th June 2012 to 22nd July 2012. The winner will be selected at random on Monday 23rd July. See Terms & Conditions.

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