Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Return to centre: Huge Elvis fan finds new home for dealers
17 May 2021Following the closure earlier this year of the Pickering Antiques Centre in North Yorkshire, which opened in 2018, manager Mark Witherington has found a new home in the town for some of the dealers.
Actor-turned-dealer Patterson takes to the Surrey stage
17 May 2021An actor and theatre director who turned to dealing when work dried up during the pandemic is standing at his first antiques fair on Sunday, May 23, at the Dorking Halls in Surrey.
Fairs updates in Oxfordshire and Bath
17 May 2021Joy O’Meara of Jay Fairs is disappointed but sanguine about the news that the parish hall in the Oxfordshire village of Benson will close for refurbishment from June to October, thus causing her to cancel her monthly antique and vintage fairs at the venue.
Dorking welcomes open-air brocante
10 May 2021Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs is back with her fully booked socially distanced antiques and decorative art fair at the Dorking Halls.
Henley event causes ripples of excitement
10 May 2021Organiser of event by the Thames is buoyed up by record number of stands confirmed
Festival time in Peterborough
10 May 2021Art glass dealers look forward to the Festival of Antiques.
Now you can enjoy the not-so-far east
03 May 2021Spotlight on businesses in the bustling antiques havens of Suffolk and Norfolk
A touch of Poland in Peckham
26 April 2021Duo organise south London pop-up market presenting five vintage poster dealers.
Fresh chapter in book fairs
26 April 2021The moment has arrived for bibliophiles missing the physical sight and touch of books at actual fairs.
Test your pot luck in Devon
26 April 2021Anything and everything to do with the garden is how Hyson Fairs describes its popular fairs in Devon.
Chiswick hits high road
26 April 2021After many false dawns Jennifer Titmuss is finally launching her monthly Chiswick Antique and Vintage Market on Sunday May 9.
Swallow starts at Ripley Castle
26 April 2021Swallow Fairs’ first three-day Decorative Home and Salvage Shows this year is the biannual event running at the 14th century Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, from noon on Friday, May 7, to Sunday, May 9.
Ready to take up arms again at Kempton Park
19 April 2021Organiser Peter Binfield is hoping for fine weather and a good turnout of 100-plus dealers at the first of this year’s Vintage & Classic Arms Fairs at Kempton Park on Sunday, May 2.
Events held outside are relaunching after the latest easing of lockdown restrictions
19 April 2021The start of May is likely to be a busy period with outside fairs and markets opening up around England and Wales after a protracted lockdown hibernation. Here is a snapshot of a few of them.
Get on board for a showroom sale
19 April 2021Chrissie and John Masters of The Design Gallery in Kent are offering this fine Art Deco sideboard by Hille at their showroom sale in Edenbridge from April 23-25.
Antiques centre launched in idyllic location after chance meeting with country estate owner
12 April 2021Tony Wittridge is so smitten with the antiques business he is opening in the grounds of Kyre Park, a large country estate at Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, that he is planning a move to the county from Essex.
Dorking dealers prepare to reopen premises as lockdown eases
12 April 2021Dorking Antiques was launched last August by three dealers: Mark Holden, Eddie Hawkins and David Whalley.
Affordable Art Fair: events at cities worldwide to come but it’s online for now
05 April 2021The Affordable Art Fair has announced its live show dates this year in London, New York, Melbourne, Hong Kong and cities in Europe.
Fair powers on at the museum
05 April 2021While the Museum of Power at Maldon in Essex does not yet have a firm date for reopening – to gaze at the original mighty steam-pumping machines – Steve Haddon of Haddon Events can still make use of the site.