A NEW monthly Vintage Market aiming to display the best of Bradford's creative businesses has been welcomed by the city's Chamber of Trade.

The market, offering free places for upwards of 30 stallholders, is set to be held on the last Sunday of each month, with the first event being held from 12pm to 8pm this weekend.

It will be held in the new BrewHaus and Sten Bierkeller bars on Randall Well Street in Bradford's West End, two of the venues which opened earlier this year as part of a £1.2million refurbishment of the old Windsor Baths building.

The bar owner, Tokyo Industries, said it was modelling the event on similar successful markets held at BrewHaus venues in Huddersfield and Lincoln, which regularly attract around 50 stallholders and hundreds of visitors.

Managing director Aaron Mellor said he wanted the market to feature a range of unique, niche goods by local vendors, including arts and crafts, jewellery, clothing, handmade and continental gifts, records and musical items, and street food, with entertainment also provided throughout the day.

One of the attractions on Sunday will be a themed Barbers and Beer area, where award-winning executive barber Wayne Anthony, who had a shop in Wibsey for more than 20 years, will launch the UK’s first-ever Barbers’ Beer range.

Mr Mellor said: "Stalls are completely free, as the aim is simply to get involved with local creative and independent businesses and offer them somewhere a bit different to showcase their products."

Val Summerscales, secretary of the Bradford District Chamber of Trade, said she hoped the market would help bring in goods that were n ot available elsewhere in the city's shops.

"If they are a different kind of stalls, obviously it would complement the shopping offer already available in the city," she said.

"There are already periodic farmer's markets and the Council hosts its own specialist markets three or four times a year, so hopefully this will provide something different.

"We would support any venture that brings something different to the city and widens its shopping offer, and this market could help re-invigorate the shopping offer in that part of the city centre."

Following the first market on Sunday, a special extra event for Christmas is scheduled to take place on December 13.