Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
French brocante in an Essex house
10 April 2026Every spring and autumn for the past 10 years Francophile dealer Sharon Dallas turns her home into an antiques shop .
Antiques shops: from The Gold Mine to Vintage Vaults
10 April 2026Second Llandudno business gets off the ground
Dealer opens shop in Wales after decade away
02 April 2026A young antiques dealer who specialises in vintage watches has opened a shop in the north Wales town of Holywell, in Flintshire.
‘Do I need 30 patchwork quilts?’
02 April 2026Natalia Rawley is a passionate antiques-hunter-gatherer and shares her loved possessions at home in Wiltshire with her four sons.
Queen's centenary turns focus to royal items
02 April 2026The centenary of the late queen’s birth on April 21, 1926, will be marked by the opening of an exhibition in the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace.
Antiques fairs: be inspired by new Staffs event
27 March 2026Dominating the skyline in the Staffordshire city of Lichfield is the only medieval cathedral in the UK with three spires.
Making deals and burning rubber
27 March 2026Shift from racecourse to motor-racing venue also gives traders opportunity to drive a sports car
London fleamarket: take it to the bridge
27 March 2026Christian Scrimgeour of Flea London in Vinegar Yard and Flat Iron Square is returning to canalside Hackney Bridge for her permanent weekend fleamarket.
Old Cinema goes green
27 March 2026Following the success of its vintage fashion pop-up in February, The Old Cinema in west London has gone green with a show of items laid out in a garden setting at the centre including the yard.
Airliner scrap parts taken to another level
20 March 2026Commercial airliner parts once destined for the scrapyard are now being upcycled by a Suffolk firm.
Organiser launches event in west London focusing on antiques with a botanical theme
20 March 2026Judy Berger of Judy’s Vintage Fair, which runs vintage furniture and fashion fairs and fleamarkets across the UK, with a focus on London, is launching something unusual: The Kensington Botanical Market.
‘Social history’ always sells well says postcards specialist
13 March 2026Ahead of a major two-day postcard collector festival, a dealer explains the draw of the most popular types
Love is all around (in the south)
13 March 2026What’s not to love at a couple of Love Fairs’ events which are held at two racecourses in southern England?
Fifty years on, monthly event in Dorking is still going strong
06 March 2026This year marks the 50th anniversary of the monthly Dorking Halls Antiques & Decorative Arts Fair, founded by the late Margaret Brown.
Hail a pop-up in new west London venue
06 March 2026The Midcentury Modern team, aka Lucy Ryder Richardson, Petra Curtis and Tanya Pateman, are launching a pop-up on Saturday, June 13, with 40 dealers at a very cool venue in west London.
Brocantes create a buzz in Lincolnshire
06 March 2026Ruth Domanski and Shauna Donaldson launched an antiques brocante in the walled garden at the Grade I-listed Grantham House, a National Trust townhouse on the outskirts of the Lincolnshire town of the same name, in 2023.
Fuel for thought in Wapping
27 February 2026The now Grade II-listed Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in east London will reopen its doors this weekend for the first time in 13 years – which is good news also for Go East Vintage, aka Louisa Ware and Onur Kurtdere.
Winnie the Pooh hits 100 mark
27 February 2026Forget Paddington Bear. Think Winnie-the-Pooh “I am a bear of very little brain…”, whose 100th anniversary this year celebrates the first outing of the gentle bear and his beloved friends including the “small and anxious” Piglet.
Lovely venue but not big enough
27 February 2026Organiser of Kent event makes plea for larger space as dealers struggle to fit into Victorian village hall
Bazaar owner calls it a day in Somerset
20 February 2026Crewkerne centre closes down amid tributes paid to a ‘professional, friendly bunch of traders’