Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Huntingdon fair ready for lift-off
24 June 2024Dealer who started in business aged just 17 looks forward to his second edition of racecourse event
Dedicated fairs attract rising numbers of dealers
24 June 2024You can find stalls selling postcards at many fairs and markets, as well as a range of dedicated fairs.
There’s no place like Dandelion Stone
24 June 2024High up in the Pennines, above the village of Cowling, near Skipton in North Yorkshire, lies World Rough Stones House.
New chapter for Bath book event
17 June 2024Annual fair held at the city’s Assembly Rooms since 1986 starts afresh in Pavilion venue this July
Ephemera event ready to go
10 June 2024John Robertson, the new fairs secretary of the Ephemera Society, got into the world of collecting ephemera and antique photographs back in the 1980s “due to my interest in local Sussex postcards and topographical views showing social history subjects”.
Cirencester Park event returns with 90 dealers standing
10 June 2024Show held for the first time last year returns at same location and is fully booked
Plenty to see at the Old Forge
03 June 2024In use at Ford as a blacksmith’s forge until the 1970s, these days it is known as Old Forge Antiques where you can find gents’ vintage clothes, antiquarian books and much more.
Time to beehive yourself
03 June 2024The Beehive in Alnwick, which offers the “largest second-hand vinyl collection in the North” has been owned by Mark and Sam Hobrough for seven years.
Tiffany rings up the sales at Emporium
03 June 2024When antiques-hunting in Northumberland, the fine market town of Morpeth is well worth a visit.
The varied delights when antiques-hunting in Northumberland
03 June 2024The privately owned Ford & Etal Estates is described in tourism-speak as “one of Northumberland’s best kept secrets”.
Shortened run leads to more visitors at Shrewsbury fleamarket
27 May 2024Shouting out an important message is this figure pictured with a hanging sign at one of JOS Events’ fleamarkets at the West Mid Showground at Shrewsbury where the next is on Saturday, June 22.
Chair obsessed dealer makes first appearance at Paxton House fair
27 May 2024Inaugural fair at Scottish borders venue also marks a debut appearance for a man obsessed by chairs
Glemham Hall brocante back but for how long?
27 May 2024Kate Button of Blackdog Events tells ATG that her annual brocante at the Grade I-listed Glemham Hall, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, is back again this year on Sunday, June 23, after a two-year absence.
Two brocantes to put in your diary this summer
20 May 2024Brocantes bring a taste of summer to the nation's country houses – here are two to attend this year
Variety of homewares prove popular at Vintage Home Show
20 May 2024Organiser of a series of shows says curation means traders are offering a wide range of items
Antiques dealers resurrect chapels to create shops
13 May 2024Former premises rescued as unholy messes are proving ideal for new use as atmospheric settings for antiques shops
Update on Welsh antiques fairs
13 May 2024An update on the latest antiques fairs in Carmarthenshire and Anglesey
Potting and pottering with an East Sussex brocante
06 May 2024The biannual Potting Shed Brocantes in East Sussex returns this spring.
Adams looks back on 35 years of Horti fairs
06 May 2024When Matthew Adams started out as a dealer in the early 1980s, the constant cry from fellow dealers was “there are too many fairs”, he says.
Reclamation and antiques dealer joins up with Norwich department store
06 May 2024An owner of reclamation centre has set up shop at the invitation of a renowned Norwich retailer.