Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Recycling is the fashion these days
31 May 2021Vintage fashion dealer Samaya Ling has been in the trade for nearly 20 years but the rest of the world is cottoning on, it seems.
‘All outdoors and covid secure’ for Shepton Flea
24 May 2021Nine months after the last Shepton Flea was held at the Royal Bath & West Showground the market returns on Sunday May 30.
‘Pent up demand’ sells out Rowley Mile
24 May 2021Capacity has been reached for the upcoming Newmarket Antiques & Collectors’ Fair at Rowley Mile Racecourse on Sunday June 6, says organiser Paul Kelly.
Love returns at Lingfield Racecourse fair
24 May 2021Like so many other organisers, Donny Mann of Love Fairs is delighted to be back running fairs after such a long absence.
Continuity is returning to fairs scene
24 May 2021Updates on three fair organisers returning with events in the next few months
Selling on the Hoof
24 May 2021Out on the Romney Marshes in east Sussex is a series of small buildings that is Hoof Brocante.
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.