A collectors fair is returning to Cleethorpes after a highly successful trial run.
Cleethorpes and Grimsby Toy and Train Fair is coming to Cleethorpes Memorial Hall on Saturday, December 7 from 10am until 3pm. The larger venue will offer more traders and a greater variety of items on sale, with hot and cold refreshments available too.
Christopher Johnson, one of the organisers, said: “We’ve got vintage toys across all subjects: trains, planes, cars, boats. We’ve got board games, Action Men, Star Wars, Pokemon, a bit of everything, all sorts of vintage and retro and new toys as well such as Lego.
“We don’t charge an admission fee but we ask, if possible, that people folk make a donation to Lincolnshire Air Ambulance or The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway. We’re going to have a table by the door.
“It’s only our second event, we did one in September in a much smaller venue to see what the call was for it in Grimsby and Cleethorpes because all of the model shops apart from one have closed over the years.
Chris added: “There is one left in Grimsby but it doesn’t stock model railway and doesn’t stock pre-owned toys across the board. There’s a lot of demand for model railways especially so we thought we’d put the fair on ourselves.”
The first event was held at The Crescent Community Hub and was so popular it became “swamped” which made the larger venue at Cleethorpes Memorial Hall a necessity. Chris said feedback was “completely positive” and visitors to the fair were “really happy and couldn’t wait for the next one”
If you are interested in coming to the event, you can follow the Cleethorpes / Grimsby Toy & Tarin Collectors Fair on Facebook where updates are regularly posted about the traders who are attending. The event is sponsored by DigiTrains.
