This is a great little vintage shop. Put me in a town or village, and I'll sniff out the best…read morelittle vintage shop in the whole place. It's a rare gift. And this place is full of treats. Its crockery and china is well worth a look. I bought a little milk jug for £6.95 and i love it. Perfect for my pots of tea. The dresses looked like they were pretty good quality, but I didn't have time to look through them properly. I loved the jewellery and accessories. Great for little bits and bobs and presents. The best bit? The staff in here were so friendly. We had a chat with the man here about the Hay festival (the reason for our trip) and he did his best to find a B&B he knew of that didn't hike their prices up over the festival - very rare. He couldn't find the card, but I do have their now - I'm meant to call them and get the name and number so I can get a good deal next year. That kind of helpful service doesn't happen very often - especially not to tourists who have already bought what they wanted. Maybe living in London has made me cynical - they're friendly in Wales.

Very interesting shop with many unusual items. Really enjoyed looking around and would recommend to…read moreanyone in the area. It really is a shop with a difference which is a breath of fresh air seeing as all shops seem to look the same these days. Well done to the owners for being original. Bought a few things from here for the garden and my study and I love them all....I will be back.

Pontcanna Flea Market is the real deal. You are guaranteed to find a really good selection of…read morequality Kitsch, both for the home and garden, as well as loads of classic and retro clothing, antiques, electrical goods, records, books, and furniture... essentially all the kind of stuff that you'd expect at a flea market, but with the added bonus of this one being a particularly good one. I don't know where the traders get their stock from, but some of them must have an incredible address book! A lot of them seemingly have endless access to the most incredibly desirable objects. Their lives must be heavenly! I considered becoming a trader myself a few years back, but decided that it would be an overtly dangerous career choice. I'd be great at scouting out my stock, and have fairly well tuned haggling skills. So far, so good! But, the problems would arise when it came to selling any of it on. I know I'd want to keep everything! Those confounded attachment issues! They also hold regular auctions at the King's Road site. I've not been to one, but I hear that they are as much fun as the flea markets, and just as well stocked with eminently buyable stuff.

I was enamoured with this antiques shop the moment I walked in. I'm sceptical of any shop selling…read more"antiques", as I'm a firm believer that most of these so-called treasures are just overpriced junk. But I think this one is different. Avalon offers a wide selection of interesting items, from Georgian furniture to unique jewellery. They also carry a range of porcelain and glass figures, as well as books, stamps, pictures and toys. I'm a bit of a history buff, so I really enjoyed browsing the extensive ranges of military medals, which would make a nice gift for my WWII-obsessed Dad. I'm quite picky with jewellery - I hardly wear any, ever. My fingers are like sausages, so it's difficult to find rings that are both big and beautiful. I was astonished when I slipped on an amazing Art Deco silver ring to find it actually fit my massive middle finger perfectly. Priced at a reasonable £35, this ring was coming home with me. I met one-half of the husband and wife team who run this shop, and he is absolutely lovely, chatty and helpful, suggesting I leave my bags at the front so it's easier to manoeuvre around the shop. Definitely coming back here as the antiques are remarkable and the prices are reasonable!

Very rude man served me, and seemed to want an argument with everyone. I will never go there again.read more

Stretton Antiques Market is an absolute wonder of an antiques market with well over fifty different…read moredealers spread over four (possibly five!) floors in one building. As you would expect from having so many dealers in one place, there is an amazing range of stock, everything anybody could want & then some, also with a good range of affordable prices. Easily the most interesting & best stocked antique market in Church Stretton.

I'm really grateful to this man and his colleague who helped me out today when I was badly let down…read moreby another firm. They came over on a Saturday (after I rang on Friday afternoon) at exactly the time they said they would. They valued and bought several pieces of furniture for cash and took them away. Very friendly and helpful too and Paul Chubb is very knowledgeable about old and antique furniture. I highly recommend this firm.

We stumbled across this place by accident yesterday and found it to be a really fun place to browse…read morearound. In contrast to the previous review, while I did note that the owners have a Bentley and that many of the things they sell are reproductions etc I do believe that they offer a real service, are helpful in meeting your needs and they do have some antiques which are labeled as such. We have a fun time and came home with about 700 pounds of items (not a single antique!) and are happy with what we got. Will be back but will look elsewhere for a bigger selection of true antiques.

I've been visiting this site for a few years now, and I must say it just appears like a tiny amount…read moreof legitimate antiques are maintained at astronomical prices - possibly because they aren't there to be sold? The same barometers and grandfather clocks have been there for years. It is sadly flooded with strange derivative furniture and accessories (like fake Louis Vuitton bookends, moet and chandon cushions, and new, but made to look old, Coca Cola accessories which I'm sure are on a bit of a rocky standing legally...) New in is the weird 'fake antique' Peaky Blinders stuff that seems to be drowning every vintage store these days. Look, the place is really fine and potentially good to look around, sometimes you might find a nice piece in there, however marketing itself as an antique centre of sorts is not really justified. It is 75% new stock and a few magnificent, but over-priced, antiques. Lots of good reclaimed garden furniture but again, the prices are painful in constrast to local reclaimation sites.