Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
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
Allen holds third event in Norfolk
21 February 2022Mandy Allen, owner of the Shirehall Plain Antiques Centre in the Norfolk town of Holt, is launching a third antiques and collectors’ fair in the county.
Praise be for centres and fairs that revive old churches
21 February 2022Where once churches were dismantled following dwindling congregations and the prohibitive cost of their upkeep, many redundant premises, often fine examples of Victorian Gothic architecture, have been transformed as community hubs.
That’s your queue for action: Woking fair proves popular
21 February 2022Organisers’ first Woking Leisure Centre event attracts trade buyers well before opening
Dealers continue appliance of science despite fair demise
14 February 2022The Antique Scientific Instruments Fair ran for 30-plus years but sadly is no more, with its last outing taking place under the banner of the Scientific Instrument Society held as part of the Antique Arms Fair in London in September 2019.
Pughs step down from Carmarthen but the popular event will continue
14 February 2022Organisers put control into fresh hands after nearly 30 years of organising the fleamarket
No money – will a heartfelt song do?
07 February 2022Although the Victorians rather liked what they called comic Valentines, which were purportedly just a bit of fun and mischief but were often grotesque and cruel, predominantly their Valentine’s cards depicted cupids and poetical posies.
Hungerford centre owner takes over Oxfordshire's Lamb Arcade with pledge to upgrade premises
07 February 2022Adrian Gilmour, owner of the Hungerford Antiques Arcade, has acquired the Lamb Arcade in Wallingford.