Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
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
Make a date for Midhurst's Phoenix fair
14 March 2022Launching on Sunday, April 3, in the West Sussex town of Midhurst is Phoenix Fairs’ vintage, antique and militaria fair.
Edna the hen flies high resurrected in falcon form
07 March 2022Some people like to call their antiques businesses by names that are personal to them and which have a strong family connection, such as Noble Salvages in Swadlincote and Peggy McCools in Warrington.
Welsh fleamarket reborn under new owner
07 March 2022Society announces Carmarthen event dates and stall and entry prices to be held at 2019 level.
Benson back as hall reopens
07 March 2022“It is with sincere uplifted spirits that I can confirm without any doubt that the Benson Antiques Fair will take place on Sunday, March 20.”
Photo fair back by popular demand
28 February 2022At last October’s Bloomsbury Book Fair organiser Etc Fairs ran a concurrent photography event. It was such a success that it is being repeated as part of the 40-dealer book fair on Sunday, March 13, at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury.
It’s been Brill, but time to move on
28 February 2022Five years ago Lewis Walduck was a 13-year-old horology-mad schoolboy when he took over the small monthly antiques fair held in the village of Brill in Buckinghamshire.
Relink the French connection
28 February 2022The latest Covid restrictions to be eased make a buying trip across the Channel more realistic