Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Film studios are flooding in, boosting Kempton antiques market
12 September 2022What is likely to be very good news for Edward Cruttenden of Sunbury Antiques and his antiques markets at Kempton Park Racecourse is a film studio invasion at local Shepperton Studios, owned by the Pinewood Group.
Vintage fair returns to Primrose Hill church
12 September 2022Keeley Rosendale of Discover Vintage is looking forward to being back at St Mary’s Church (right) in Primrose Hill, north London, on Saturday, September 24, with her third vintage home show at this location – “a fabulous building”, she said.
Ruby joins in with Jay’s event
12 September 2022Joy O’Meara of Jay Fairs has invited Ruby’s Vintage Fairs, aka Lyn Mistry and Yvonne Hockey to join her in the upstairs room at the antiques and collectors’ fair that she runs at the parish hall in the Oxfordshire village of Benson.
Event is anonymous no longer
05 September 2022Church Street fair’s long-awaited return signalled by change to more specific title
Perfect for lovers of alternative frock
05 September 2022'Frock Me!' was launched 25 years ago when vintage fashion was viewed by many as just someone’s old rubbish cast-offs, probably harbouring germs.
Peruse antiques again along the Pantiles
05 September 2022The first Pantiles Antiques Festival in the Kent town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in July was such a success for Love Fairs that the organiser is straight back with another.
York National Book Fair coincides with the ILAB Congress taking place in Oxford
29 August 2022Visitor numbers are likely to be swelled above the usual 1000 a day at the annual 'York National Book Fair' held at the city’s racecourse on Friday and Saturday, September 9-10.
Costs bite but B2B is robust
29 August 2022B2B Events has a run of upcoming events this month including its two-day Detling antiques, vintage and collectors’ fair at the Kent County Showground on Saturday and Sunday, September 10-11.
Call to arms: fairs in Bristol and Birmingham
29 August 2022Organised by Tricorn Fairs, the biannual Bristol Fine Antique Arms Fair returns on Sunday, September 11, at a new venue: the Aztec West Hotel and Spa.
IACF relaunches Ally Pally fair
22 August 2022Traders welcome the return of the organiser’s only London event which was last held in 2020
Beccles antique centre scores well so far
22 August 2022Three months ago Kate and Steven Lee opened Antiques at Four, a small 13-dealer antiques centre in the Suffolk town of Beccles, just up the road from their shop, Blyburgate Antiques.
Strong bookings for Grandma’s Attic fair in Winchester
22 August 2022Grandma’s Attic Fairs has a high number of bookings at the next event in Winchester on Bank Holiday Monday, August 29.
Three antiques fairs in Suffolk over the August bank holiday weekend
15 August 2022Holiday weekend events previewed – including news of an organiser handing over the reins
Chancellor on ribbon-cutting duty as Top Dog increases antiques spending
15 August 2022A brand-new building on the Dodwell Trading Estate outside Stratford-upon- Avon is the home of the recently opened Top Dog Antiques.
It’s a Shaw thing in Berkshire
08 August 2022Jackie Edwards launched her antiques and vintage street markets nearly 10 years ago as ACVR Events.
Teddy bear and doll fair is back
08 August 2022Popular toys event returns after Covid disruption and includes ex-Woburn Abbey festival
Chilton Antiques closes after 32 years of trading
08 August 2022A few antiques businesses operate in garden centres but sadly one of these is closing.
Civil war helps Wallingford centre to thrive
08 August 2022Business is doing so well at the newly acquired and renovated antiques centre in Wallingford, formerly the Lamb Arcade, that turnover has increased by 25%.
Traders take palace trip
25 July 2022“Dealers are coming from far and wide including Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire and of course Worcestershire and the West Midlands in general,” says Paul Rowson, who in May launched his new antiques and collectors’ fair in the atmospheric setting of Hartlebury Castle in Worcester, known as the Bishops’ Palace.
Three-day fair launch in Ascot
25 July 2022Famous Berkshire racecourse hosts new event featuring 60 high-end dealers