Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Arthur Swallow returns to three-day format for Cheshire event
07 October 2024Event originally put on hold will be restaged from next summer – but the one-dayer will also remain
Plagued by evil spirits? ‘Witches balls’ might be a good purchase
07 October 2024Later this month Antiques in Tents holds its highly rated biannual high-end two-day antiques fair in Herefordshire.
North Yorkshire flea bookings buzzing
07 October 2024Back in 2017 Helen Bowman and Ben Wray, formerly Bowman Fairs, hit on the idea of holding a fleamarket at Skipton Auction Mart.
Lowe headlines Frome Bazaar
30 September 2024Fashion and textiles designer and former singer songwriter Pearl Lowe will stall out with some of her antique finds at The Vintage Bazaar in Frome on Saturday October 19.
Scents and cents at perfume sale
30 September 2024Wanting to create a new perfume for the modern woman, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel invented her signature fragrance Chanel No. 5 in 1921.
Plans to open new Northern Irish antiques centre in 2025
30 September 2024Owner of Belfast On the Square Emporium invests in project to bring antiques centre to nearby town of Bangor
Growing in the garden glasshouse
30 September 2024A popular two-day biannual antiques and vintage fair run since 2017 in a large glasshouse at Coolings Garden Centre at Knockholt in Kent is growing in exhibitor numbers.
Poole Pottery plates take their place at popular event
23 September 2024One of the most popular fairs in the Grandma’s Attic seven-venue portfolio across southern England is in Woking.
The Antiques on High auction offering doubles up
23 September 2024Vincent Page is launching a second monthly auction room in one of his five antique centres which are currently in Oxford, Sidmouth, Harrogate, Taunton and Bowness-on-Windermere all with the brand title of Antiques on High.
Horti organiser full of happiness
23 September 2024Victoria event’s early September edition was one of the busiest that Matthew Adams has ever held
Make dairy diary date
16 September 2024Myrtle’s Courtyard on the 2000-acre Hampton Estate, near Farnham in Surrey, is a cluster of Victorian buildings, originally the Hampton dairy farm and milking parlour, which is now used for events.
Auctioneer turned fair organiser announces locations for two new events
16 September 2024An auctioneer who relocated to the West Country after working at a London saleroom for eight years has launched two antiques fairs.
Brothers’ business boosted by TV show
16 September 2024A dealer and restorer since he was 16, Henry Vaughan has two of the largest shops at Hudson’s Homes & Antiques near Stratford-upon-Avon.
Quality counts in Cornwall
09 September 2024An example of how a high-end fair can work very well in areas where such events are completely unknown is the biannual Enys House Antiques Fair at Penryn in west Cornwall.
Duo launch Sheffield staging
09 September 2024Ian and Grahame Wilson of long-running Newcomen Fairs are expanding their events which are held in the Elsecar Heritage Centre, a range of restored Victorian buildings near Barnsley where they also own the 120-dealer Elsecar Antiques Centre.
Organiser of specialist glass fair on the lookout for venues to add to West Midlands location
09 September 2024A mindful quote about glass from the great American writer Tennessee Williams comes in his one-act drama The Glass Menagerie which premiered on stage in Chicago in 1944: “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
Fifty years of the York book fair and PBFA foundation to celebrate
02 September 2024From modest origins, the York event is now the largest antiquarian book fair in the UK
Farnham happy with Parnham
02 September 2024Dealer who was invited to organise a fair at nearby estate holds the second edition this month
Barnstorming array of antiques businesses in Suffolk
02 September 2024Since the owners of Aspal Antiques launched an antiques centre at Stonham Barns Park three years ago and added a second centre on site to include a reclamation yard, a steady stream of antiques-related businesses have opened up.
Palatial surroundings at Kent centre
02 September 2024Oriental ceramics and bronzes specialist Ian McLean, an antiques dealer who has opened an antiques centre near Sevenoaks, says cheerily: “Otford already has two very good antique centres but you can’t have too many.”