For more than 17 years, GB Antiques and Furniture Centre has been attracting antiques and collectors buyers from around the world to North Lancashire. With 140 individual dealers, all indoors, Allan Blackburn, Managing Director , says the key to the Centre's continued success is variety.

Allan said, "We have tried to gather together a good selection of different dealers so there's something for all types of collectors and buyers. Every year we have managed to attract more visitors and more dealers. We have worked hard to find such a variety of reputable and committed dealers."

The centre now includes dealers from throughout the U.K. including a kitchenalia specialist, a dealer in Art Deco and a toy expert, as well as furniture, ceramics and book dealers. The wares at GB Antiques Centre are an eclectic blend - There is barely a field of the last two hundred years which is not represented somewhere in the Centre's 40,000 square feet.

There's plenty of beautiful furniture with everything from Victorian pine to Edwardian oak as well as lots of elegant porcelain, pottery, glassware and paintings and dealers with other fascinating collectables like the Retro Moderne stand. Turning from an aisle of elegant porcelain, lustrous mahogany and pretty Victoriana, visitors are now confronted with the most outrageous colours and wildest designs of the 1950s- 1970s. It's a surprising contrast which enriches the centre.

Allan said "These items may not be true antiques, but they are innovative and unusual. This whole style is very popular and there are many buyers, trade and general public alike, who want contemporary design, pedigree and provenance combined."

The selection of wares is not the only important attraction of GB Antiques Centre. We firmly believe that there's no point having great variety if visitors find it difficult to get round. As a result, the centre is all on one level and all indoors. Aisles are wide and clutter is kept to a minimum.