Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
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
Head to Hexham midweek
25 July 2022This display of copper and pottery pieces is from one of Colin Caygill Events’ busy monthly midweek antiques and vintage fairs run in Northumberland in the market town of Hexham.
Page pledges to open fourth Antiques on High centre
25 July 2022Another centre will be added to the Antiques on High brand currently in Oxford, Sidmouth and Bowness-on-Windermere when owner Vincent Page opens a fourth shop “north of Birmingham but south of Bowness,” he says.
Busy summer of fairs in Suffolk
25 July 2022Plenty of antiques and vintage fairs take place in Suffolk this month and early in August.
Taxidermy and lots of other stuff
18 July 2022Couple move upstairs in their 17th century Cotswolds townhouse to open an antiques shop below
Wembley organisers take over Cheltenham market
18 July 2022The organisers of the Wembley Antiques Market in north London have taken over the monthly Cheltenham Antiques and Vintage Market from Corky Events, which runs antique markets in St Albans and Chiswick.
Berkhamsted boost: Herts in the right place
18 July 2022Another day, another antiques street market. What could be better on a sunny day than browsing stalls and buying something you didn’t know you wanted but are so pleased you did?
The former mills now grinding out antiques sales
11 July 2022Ex-industrial premises have been brought back by firms relying on heritage interest
Grand car boot venue in east Yorkshire
04 July 2022The Sykeses of east Yorkshire made their fortunes in the 18th century not only from cloth but from the flourishing Baltic trade in crude iron.
Shepton all set for summer
04 July 2022“After a very busy Easter event which was spectacular, our Shepton Flea is back in full force with our next flea on Sunday, July 17”, says Sue Ede.
Fleabag firm scratches an itch with new antiques shop
04 July 2022Event organiser with memory of family antiques shop starts a bricks and mortar venture
Help make Thames festival a buoyant event
04 July 2022Calling all antiques and vintage dealers, more of whom are needed to swell the numbers in the antiques street at the annual Thames Traditional Boat Festival held this year from Friday to Sunday, July 15-17.