Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Malvern Flea & Collectors’ Market to go ahead in September
06 September 2021One of the UK’s best-loved and supported flea markets – billed as the biggest in the country – is B2B Events’ Malvern Flea & Collectors’ Market.
Meet the Henley upcycling specialist with an eight-week waiting list
06 September 2021Henley-on-Thames interior designer Sharon Ingoldby, aka The Restoration Queen, is working flat out on upcycling projects.
Dealer offers Rich pickings
30 August 2021A new dealer at the Henley Décor Fair later this month will be Alexander ‘Sandy’ Rich of Tregeagle Fine Art.
Book fair returns as some turn from New York to old
30 August 2021According to the Booksellers Association, more than 60 bookshops opened in the UK and Ireland over the past 18 months, reflecting the rediscovery by many people of the pleasure of books during the pandemic despite the increase in online shopping.
Dealers invited to take stalls at new fair in Burnley's market hall
30 August 2021The former mill town of Burnley in Lancashire is better known for its Premier League football team these days than its history.
Inside track on Kempton Park
23 August 2021Sunbury Antiques announces that the main grandstand will be reopening for indoor trading
Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair returns to Covent Garden after 18-month absence
23 August 2021London Fashion Week is back from September 17-21 – a mixture of digital and physical events including the British Fashion Council’s famous shows at Somerset House.
Two events coming up in East Anglia
23 August 2021Blackdog Events, based in the Suffolk town of Halesworth, organises successful outdoor brocantes in the sweeping grounds of two stately homes: Riddlesworth Hall at Diss in Norfolk and Glemham Hall, near Aldeburgh in Suffolk.
Art Deco delights at Tunbridge Wells' Corn Exchange
16 August 2021After just three weeks of trading in July at their newly opened showroom in the Grade II-listed Corn Exchange in Tunbridge Wells, dealers Chrissie and John Masters of the Design Gallery have made brisk sales to new customers for their Art Deco pieces.
Traditional Boat Festival is back at Henley
16 August 2021After a year’s absence, Lady McAlpine’s four-day Thames Traditional Boat Festival is returning to Henley to run on Fawley Meadows from Friday to Monday, August 27-30.
Knight back in Bath
16 August 2021Naomi Knight is back with her Sunday monthly and popular Bath Vintage & Antiques Markets with the next on August 29.
Vintage home show launches in north London with another earmarked for the west
16 August 2021Keeley Rosendale of Discover Vintage is going all-out this autumn with her vintage home shows including the launch of one in London – her first in the south of England.
Book fair makes a Brighton booking
09 August 2021An update from Jeremy Carson, organiser of PBFA’s Brighton Book Fair which will run at Brighton Racecourse (assuming it is not being used as a vaccination centre then…) on Saturday, October 30 – the first in Brighton for more than 20 years.
B2B Edinburgh postponed due to 'too much uncertainty'
09 August 2021B2B Events has confirmed that its antiques, vintage and collectors’ fairs held in Edinburgh at the Royal Highland Centre will not be running this year.
Beccles Antiques Market full to the brim
09 August 2021The Beccles Antiques Market held at its new riverside quay location by the River Waveney in the Suffolk town is now fully booked, with 100-plus stallholders for its second market here on Sunday, August 22.
New owners hoping for sunshine at Chelsea Antiques Fair
09 August 2021Acquired six months ago from Caroline Penman by the online selling platform 2Covet, the long-established and highly regarded 'Chelsea Antiques Fair' returns to its spiritual home of Chelsea Town Hall next month for its 70th edition.
Venue switch due to Brighton Racecourse's vaccination role
09 August 2021As Brighton Racecourse is still being used as a vaccination centre, Love Fairs’ Donny Mann did a bit of lateral thinking about his antiques and vintage fair due to be held there on Sunday, August 29.
Fairs update from Hampshire and Somerset
26 July 2021Updates from two events taking place in the south of England.
Staycations are boosting local antiques centres
26 July 2021Uncertainty still affects fairs but antiques centres are benefiting from extra visitors
Contemporary art on course
19 July 2021Contemporary Art Fairs’ schedule of live events in 2021-22 involves three racecourse locations in southern England: at Sandown Park in Surrey, and the Royal Windsor plus Newbury in Berkshire.