THE first Dulverton Antiques Valuation Day will be held on Saturday with television’s Adam Partridge hosting a new event designed to help attract more visitors to the Exmoor town.

The mini ‘Antiques Roadshow’ will allow residents to take items such as antiques, jewellery, fine art, and collectors’ pieces to Dulverton Town Hall and have them valued and their history explained for a small fee by a team of experts.

Specialists from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, based in Hele, near Exeter, will attend the valuation day, which is being organised by Visit Dulverton.

It runs from 10.30 am to 3.30 pm and anybody who decides they want to sell their items can have them accepted for a future specialist auction.

Adam Partridge Auctioneers is also offering home appointments for items which are too large to carry, or for anybody with more than three pieces.

Visit Dulverton spokeswoman Ali Pegrum said the idea was also to promote the message ‘repair, reuse, recycle’ with other stalls at the event, including a team from Somerset Waste Partnership, who will take donations of unwanted small tech for reuse such as laptops, computers, and mobile phones, and help visitors set up their own community repair groups.

Ms Pegrum said people could discover how to start their own local repair café.

She said appointments were not necessary as the event would run on a simple first come, first served ticketing system.

Mr Partridge, who appears regularly on television programmes such as Flog It!, Antiques Road Trip, Dickinson’s Real Deal, and Bargain Hunt, said: “We hope to be visiting this area a lot in the future.

“The last two years have been very difficult for so many businesses, but also for towns and villages impacted by a lack of visitor numbers.”

More information can be found on the Visit Dulverton website https://visitdulverton.com/dulverton-antiques-valuation-event and its social media pages.