Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Dealer duo decide: ‘We need a bigger warehouse’
15 May 2026Two antiques dealers who have owned businesses in Henley-on-Thames for many years have launched a bigger version of their joint venture, Warehouse 26.
A capital idea from car boot organisers
15 May 2026The organisers of the popular weekly Capital Car Boot Sale at the Pimlico Academy in London are launching a twice-monthly antiques market.
Bring me sunshine at Ribble Valley Fairs
15 May 2026Dealer hopes garden, home and salvage show will run twice a year in Preston to fill a gap in the area
‘Rummage paradise’ ready to go
08 May 2026In ATG No 2738 we featured Wiltshire-based Natalia Rawley who sells online antique and vintage items she finds in her house clearance business.
Push the boat out in Henley
08 May 2026Judy, Lady McAlpine is looking for more vintage traders for the antiques street market she organises at the annual Thames Traditional Boat Festival.
Antiques shops: 8 + 61 = a successful business launch
08 May 2026Two new antiques shops which opened in 2025 within 60 miles of each other are celebrating a successful first year’s collaboration.
Joining offer from the Ephemera Society packed with promise
08 May 2026How about this for a special deal?
Bank on a couple of winners
01 May 2026Make the best of the Whitsun weekend with two fairs being staged in scenic venues close to each other
The bog standard is high
01 May 2026You could say that Emma and David Mann are flushed with the success of their small antiques business, a former public toilet, in Hastings Old Town in East Sussex which celebrates its 11th year in business.
‘It’s like Liberty’s in Norfolk’
24 April 2026Dealer duo win praise for new shop hosting 25 traders across two floors in a former furniture store
Get hooked in by Horace at the National Vintage Tackle Fair
24 April 2026This splendid image depicts Horace Brown, a former president of the Piscatorial Society.
Builth Wells fair built on a good base
24 April 2026IACF’s first outpost in Wales was established last year when the organisers took over Continuity Fairs’ biannual antiques fair in Builth Wells.
New antiques market adds to the buzz in Ledbury
17 April 2026The Ledbury Collective in the so-named design quarter in the attractive Herefordshire town was opened last year by Sarah Baldwin.
An event that borders on the inspirational
17 April 2026“Unfortunately, Paxton House won’t allow us to chop down any historic trees to add more marquees,” joked Seppe Anthony, co-organiser at Glam Racket Events.
Antiques fair is a surprise success in Orkney
17 April 2026Colin Richards is professor of prehistoric archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands on the Orkney Islands.
Next Beccles Antiques Market is in May
10 April 2026This vintage duck model is on advertising duties for the annual Beccles Antiques Market run since 2009 by dealer Kate Lee.
French brocante in an Essex house
10 April 2026Every spring and autumn for the past 10 years Francophile dealer Sharon Dallas turns her home into an antiques shop .
Antiques shops: from The Gold Mine to Vintage Vaults
10 April 2026Second Llandudno business gets off the ground
Dealer opens shop in Wales after decade away
02 April 2026A young antiques dealer who specialises in vintage watches has opened a shop in the north Wales town of Holywell, in Flintshire.
‘Do I need 30 patchwork quilts?’
02 April 2026Natalia Rawley is a passionate antiques-hunter-gatherer and shares her loved possessions at home in Wiltshire with her four sons.