Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
How Londoners got stuffed
02 May 2022Book on offer at fishing tackle fair tells story of East End taxidermists who preserved catches
Returning tourists give business boost for Portobello Road
25 April 2022Tourists returning to London gave Portobello Road traders a significant boost over the Easter period.
A round up of antiques fairs including a new event at Hartlebury Castle
25 April 2022Spotlight on atmospheric venues hosting art and antiques fairs including a new event.
Retro fair makes call on name change
25 April 2022The National Vintage Communications Fair has rebranded itself and is now called RetroTechUK.
Big day out promised at racecourse festival
18 April 2022York vintage event returns as first to be staged for three years
Driving bargains at Beccles Antiques Markets
18 April 2022Taking away a toy car for possible restoration for a young driver is this buyer at one of the biannual Beccles Antiques Markets.
The ‘summer of salvage’ for Arthur Swallow Fairs
18 April 2022Ripley Castle’s website describes a history of persecution, plague, loyalty, social turbulence and recklessness.
Mill venue weaves atmosphere in West Yorkshire
18 April 2022Sunny Bank Mills at Farsley near Leeds has been in the Gaunt family for six generations.
Four upcoming car boot fairs in the UK from Wilton House to Stonor Park
11 April 2022The country house car boot season is back, dominated by the mammoth annual boot event held for 40 years in aid of the local Rotary Club at Wilton House.
Hunt celebrates 25 years at IACF
11 April 2022Claire Hunt is celebrating 25 years working for the fair organiser IACF.
Fair's new organiser tells tales of tiles
11 April 2022Dealer promises to promote Nottingham specialist fair
A man with textiles in the blood
04 April 2022Dealer offers vintage and new design art after more than 30 years in family weaving company
Antiques events taking place this Easter weekend from Cornwall to Glasgow
04 April 2022Weather forecasters say that the Easter weekend is likely to be a sizzler and as this is a traditionally mega-busy time on the fairs and market scene there may be cheers all round across the bank holiday. Here is a short snapshot of a few events.
Preparing for Peterborough: Organiser IACF looks forward to first Easter festival edition since it took over event in 2019
28 March 2022Managing director of IACF William Thomas is building up the momentum to the bumper crowds which are expected this Easter at the two-day 'Peterborough Festival of Antiques'.
The Amorini Antiques Centre, hot off the press
21 March 2022There are many sounds which you might hear in an antiques centre: dealers moving objects around for display, customers talking as they enthuse over the stock and the regular ringing of tills.
Going retro in Wolverhampton
21 March 2022Trade at an antiques and retro shop which opened bang in the middle of the pandemic last year in the village of Wombourne, near Wolverhampton has started to blossom in the last few weeks say the owners of Raven’s Nest Antiques, Mel Jones and Marcus Wortans.
Explore the Oxford book fair after Endurance discovery
21 March 2022News earlier this month of the discovery of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition ship, in the icy waters of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, will surely have made the hearts of dealers and collectors of polar material beat a little faster.
News in brief – a round up of Fairs and Markets news
14 March 2022Newmarket and Yorkshire events feature in this round up of fairs news
Enys House Antiques & Decorative Fair becomes biannual event
14 March 2022Cornish event hosted in historic house and grounds will now be staged twice a year.
Wyke showcases a wider range of room settings
14 March 2022Mid-century and modern pieces will feature at Wyke House this month