Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
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.
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.