Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
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
Places to pick up a football poster
24 July 2026It’s all over for another four years, the tears, the cheers, the clashes and the cards at the World Cup.
Fairs coming up soon...
24 July 2026A selection of three fairs in different parts of the country taking place in August
With this vintage frock I thee wed
17 July 2026Dealers say the ‘beauty’ of choosing older dresses for your big day is you can ‘shop across a range of styles’
Two tempters for a visit to a small Somerset town
17 July 2026The small town of Frome in Somerset features regularly in regional lists of the best places to live in the UK.
How 100 objects tell the story of the suffrage movement
10 July 2026One of the most poignant images in suffrage historian and dealer Elizabeth Crawford’s latest book, 'The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects', is a lily carried by Agnes Kelly at the funeral in 1913 of Emily Wilding Davison – who famously was killed as she stepped in front of the king’s horse on Derby Day that year.
Premises with an antiques past
10 July 2026Southwold shop moves to Suffolk site nearby where another dealer had traded for 35 years
Southerners illuminated by the northern highlights
03 July 2026The prime minister-in-waiting, Andy Burnham, is planning to move parts of Downing Street’s operation to Manchester in a move to devolve power out of London, and a push to the city where he was formerly mayor (of Greater Manchester). One of the UK’s most visited shopping destinations for its many vintage shops, here are a few possible temptations in and around Manchester for Downing Street’s finest.
Not tiresome at all for a book fest
03 July 2026While Jane Austen thought Bath to be wearying after six weeks, a two-day fair will keep visitors enthralled
Event moves from church to church
26 June 2026A TV casting director who launched a vintage and mid-century fair in March at the Grade I-listed St Stephen’s Church in Hampstead (with another in June) is moving to another ecclesiastical setting on Saturday, July 11, for the third event, also in north London.
Second home for dolls’ houses
26 June 2026Dolls’ houses, these tiny homes and their teensy furniture, create passionate collectors.
Expect ‘great fun and serious buyers’
26 June 2026As Premier Fairs, Richard Burtonshaw organises two glass and decorative fairs in the UK.
Let there be lights at showground
19 June 2026One of the big antiques love-ins that dominate Love Fairs’ portfolio is the antiques and collectors’ two-day Detling fairs .
Slip in to the historic dockyard
19 June 2026Launched last June at Chatham’s Historic Dockyard by a saleroom based in the yard, Medway Auctions, the next regular antiques and vintage fair will run at the No 5 slip at the wharf on Sunday, June 28.
Vintage fuels your happiness
19 June 2026“You can’t buy happiness but you can buy vintage and that’s kind of the same thing.”
Down the straight and into summer
12 June 2026Stephanie Castell and Ben Cooper, of Two C’s Antique Fairs, are coming down the straight for their antiques fair in Shropshire on Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12.