Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Vintage in Queen's Park
25 September 2026There are plenty of vintage markets in London which are not so well known and one of these is the Salusbury Sunday Market held in north-west London.
Pop-ups prove popular
25 September 2026The Old Cinema antiques centre in Chiswick has had a big success this year with its month-long pop-up events.
Dealers' cooperative in former department store
25 September 2026The Durham Antiques Cooperative was formerly a department store in the former mining community of Sherburn Hill, just outside the city.
Wilton event wows visitors twice a year
25 September 2026Decoratives dealers Kay Davies and Amanda Perry are the new organisers of the biannual Wilton Decorative & Vintage Fair.
Great discoveries in a Winchester Nutshell
18 September 2026The organisers of an antiques market that is set to be revived in Winchester are looking to attract more traders.
Elephant in the centre
18 September 2026Another newcomer to the rising popularity of antiques fairs held in garden centres is Elephant Promotions.
Events that make a material difference
18 September 2026Updates from textiles, vintage fashion and haberdashery fairs
As Luck would have it…
11 September 2026The maps of 19th century cartographer, mapmaker and publisher John Tallis are described on the website of antiquarian map dealership Tooley Adams, a firm set up in 1982 selling original worldwide printed maps from the 15th to the 19th centuries, as “the last of the lavishly decorated and ornamental maps, considered to be works of art as well as geographically accurate”.
North deco fair cancelled
11 September 2026“We regrettably had to cancel our Great North Decorative Antique Fair at Newcastle Racecourse at the end of August and we won’t be running the third we had announced as being held on November 14 and 15. This is due to issues at the course and it’s such a shame as they have been a big success,” said organiser Ken Besford of Durham Promotions NE.
Being an event organiser is quite a battle
11 September 2026Ardingly warfest returns with re-enactors and militaria dealers as well as an ‘unforgettable finale’
Great expectations as high-end fair launches in Northern Ireland
04 September 2026Debut event with ambitious plans for growth will feature 45 decorative dealers hosted at historic estate
‘Retirement just wasn’t for me’
28 August 2026Undaunted dealer takes over Isle of Wight antiques shop at age of 84 working alongside his daughters
Taking steps to enjoy Cornwall
28 August 2026Enys House and Gardens in Penryn, west Cornwall, is the slightly mysterious backdrop to Nicki and Ralph Retallack’s biannual antiques and decorative fair with the second this year running on Saturday and Sunday, September 26-27.
No bishops but a busy fair
28 August 2026Hartlebury Castle in Kidderminster was home to the bishops of Worcester for 1000 years, including Pope Clement III who refused Henry VIII his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
Fleas leap to west of the capital
21 August 2026Successful series of London fairs expands to use huge space under concrete canopy of a road flyover
Go to school for the weird, the wacky and the wonderful
21 August 2026Antiques dealer Benjmin Smith’s near uncontrollable passion, which he refers to as “the habit”, has seen him create a fantastical assemblage that takes up nearly every inch of space in the Lowestoft home he shares with his partner Hayley Miller and their two young children.
Antiques fairs organiser Sue Ede: 'Make sure you treat the trade well'
07 August 2026Looking after trade buyers can be key to the success of a fair.
Indian summer: Colourful event comes to Chiswick for a summer pop-up
07 August 2026The Old Cinema antiques and vintage collective in Chiswick High Road, west London, is celebrating the Colours of India with a summer pop-up.
Southwold success: Suffolk fair returns for summer session
07 August 2026Lomax Fairs returns to Southwold for another three-day event this month