Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
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24 October 2022Lucy Burnett is a dealer at Market Cross Antiques in the Somerset town of Somerton, near Yeovil.
Two useful buying opportunities in Wiltshire
17 October 2022Dealer Chris Watt opened Salisbury Antiques Centre nearly 30 years ago originally as a trade warehouse and despite upheavals down the years still believes "it’s well worth doing if sometimes all over the place”.
Bath VA market comes under new ownership
17 October 2022Organiser of Wembley and Cheltenham events takes over.
Antiques outpost in Shakespeare country
17 October 2022Mike Collins, the popular director of Sherman & Waterman which runs the weekly antiques markets in Covent Garden and Spitalfields – two of the busiest and best known markets in London – is as ebullient as ever.
Bazaar full to the brim
10 October 2022‘Overflowing’ is how you might describe The Vintage Bazaar held in the Cheese and Grain, a community events venue in Frome, Somerset.
Brighton racecourse venue offers separate events over a single weekend
10 October 2022One especially good reason to head for Brighton over the weekend of October 22-23 is the presence of two fairs running at the south coast city’s racecourse.
Antiques on High goes fourth with latest centre in Taunton
10 October 2022Vincent Pugh and his wife Lesley White have opened their fourth centre under the brand name of Antiques on High.
Whole lotta love for Ludlow
03 October 2022Fairs are often good places to celebrity-spot and one of these sighted at the Ludlow fair was the veteran Led Zeppelin rock great, Robert Plant.
Organisers of So Last Century report robust business at fairs
03 October 2022String of events such as So Last Century experience strong interest
Antiques in the Park: a venue with great potential
03 October 2022“The feedback from dealers and visitors was very good and as a venue the showground has great potential for growth with excellent road links,” said Kate Button of Black Dog Events as she talked about her new event, Antiques in the Park.
Antiques in Tents at Burton Court for its 10th year
03 October 2022Grade II-listed manor house Burton Court near Leominster, Herefordshire, is the setting for Antiques in Tents’ next fair on Friday and Saturday, October 14-15, with 50 dealers.
Healthy interest at Kent garden centre event
26 September 2022Fire Kettle Events runs the popular biannual antiques and collectables fairs at the 14-acre Coolings Garden Centre in Knockholt, near Sevenoaks in Kent.
Dealers support Cheltenham event
26 September 2022The trader figures for Jonathan Nixon’s antiques and vintage market in Cheltenham – launched at the beginning of July – are now approaching 60.
Banknotes mark end of an era
26 September 2022Examples from the UK and Commonwealth featuring the late queen make mementoes.
Visit a fair crammed full of the write stuff
26 September 2022If your fountain pen is prone to leaking, as King Charles III’s unfortunate double mishap in Edinburgh and Belfast showed, then maybe pay a visit to the biannual specialist London Autumn Pen Show on October 9.
All set for a sunny future
19 September 2022Hemswell Antique Centres is now completely full with 400 dealers trading out of the four centres on the Hemswell Cliff site in Lincolnshire.
Corky goes east
19 September 2022Jennifer Titmuss of Corky Events, who runs monthly antiques markets in St Albans and on Chiswick High Road, is on the move again as she launches a market in the E17 London Borough of Walthamstow with the first on Sunday, September 25.
Brocante’s growing success
19 September 2022There are few antiques centres and even fewer fairs held in garden centres and nurseries but along has come news of The Potting Shed Brocante which ran at the King John’s Nursery in the Kent village of Etchingham earlier this month.
Enjoy a day on the tiles
19 September 2022The annual Nottingham Tile Fair is a small specialist event with 10 dealers at the upcoming fair in St Jude’s Hall, Mapperley, Nottingham.
Deco delay but Dorking antiques fair thrives
12 September 2022Chelsea event plans on hold for now but organiser is upbeat about Surrey fair and brocante.