Maldon’s Mark Blythe is a man on a mission.
Together with Maldon Events, that mission is to oversee the smooth running of this weekend’s 12th annual Maldon Antique & Collectables Fair.
Held at the town’s Bill Woodfull Reserve over this Saturday and Sunday, the fair is “chock-a-block” in the words of Mark who came up with the idea for the fair after selling antiques locally for about a decade.
“We’ve got 130 stalls and that’s all I can fit,” he enthuses as he shares an anecdote about how the event, that fits so snugly with Maldon’s heritage ambiance, came into being.
“This year there’s a big influx of new blood – what I refer to as the next generation of antique stallholders,” Mark says. Read more in today’s Castlemaine Mail. Friday, February 14, 2020.