I heard it’ll be the last one at Weston Park too, so if that’s true it really is the end of an era.
What these shows need is a drastic reduction in the price to rent a stall/pitch.
If the all in cost of a small pitch in the Airgun Expo was say £500, there’d be triple the number of traders there and the small, cottage industries or people who think they may have a saleable product or service, would be more tempted to book a stall and display. The larger stalls would also then be available for less money as more smaller stalls would be booked.
The owners / organisers would make just as much money, if not more. They could actually increase the entry fee if there was triple the amount of traders exhibiting. I always went with the attitude of, ‘stuff the entry price, it’s a once a year event and I’m going to enjoy it’.

But that became increasingly difficult to do when 80% of the stuff on show was cheap Chinese tools and snide clothing.

It’s a shame it went the way it did.