Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Braderie big in Deal
09 September 2019Every year the town council in the Kent coastal town of Deal, a place described last year as “racy, posh and cultured”, hosts a lively braderie along the High Street and adjoining streets selling antiques and vintage pieces.
Textile Society supports talented student
09 September 2019The Textile Society has run antique and vintage textiles fairs in Manchester for the past 20 years with its annual London event launching in 2009. Proceeds from these 40-plus standholder events help to fund the society’s awards and bursaries.
Lomax in history groove
09 September 2019Organiser holds events in notable properties with fine heritage
Upcoming fairs to visit in early September 2019
02 September 2019A selection of events in Cheshire, Kent, Bedfordshire and Wales.
Sessions on sense of style
02 September 2019Pictured is award-winning photographer and interiors stylist Tamsyn Morgans who runs one of the workshops at Arthur Swallow Fairs’ Decorative Home & Salvage Shows.
Father and daughter trade duo now concentrate on events and busy online business
02 September 2019Gary Munday has been a specialist dealer in antique boxes for the past 35 years, giving up his shop Mostly Boxes Antiques in Eton in April this year.
New face at Clerkenwell fair
26 August 2019London-based vintage costume jewellery dealer Amanda Bhatia, aka Dottie Annie’s Vintage, is a new exhibitor at the Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair.
Two events in Suffolk in classy venues
26 August 2019Spotlight on two upcoming fairs in East Anglia.
York National Book Fair is a high flier
26 August 2019Huge York event includes a mobile installation on bird theme.
Court is now in session as Magistrates Market Antiques Centre opens for business
19 August 2019In January this year we ran a Fairs & Markets story (ATG No 2374) about the Georgian former courthouse in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, which had reopened its doors as an antiques and cultural centre using the first floor only.
Congleton antiques centre stays open despite deluge
19 August 2019The floods which swept north-west England at the end of July involved major downpours hitting Congleton in Cheshire. This included Victoria Mill Antiques and Collectors’ Centre on the edge of town, which stayed open despite flood damage, as this Twitter picture below shows.
Rugby club substitute for the palace
19 August 2019A dealer who was so disappointed that the second of the biannual Art Deco fairs held at Eltham Palace in September had been cancelled has launched his own nearby.
Duo launch new Cornish antiques fair at country house venue
19 August 2019Former farmer Ralph Retallack is now an antiques dealer in Falmouth with his partner Nicola Fuller. They are launching an antiques and decorative fair near St Ives this September and are looking to attract more quality exhibitors including architectural salvage dealers.
Exhibitors prepare for Vintage on the Green event taking place in West Sussex
12 August 2019The words ‘country’ and ‘brocante’ have an allure of their own as Lucy Haywood discovered when she founded the Country Brocante store in the village of Midhurst, West Sussex.
Pioneer of Shropshire antiques centre leaves to take up her pen as an author
12 August 2019An antiques dealer in the picturesque market town of Bridgnorth in Shropshire is retiring from the trade to concentrate on her writing career.
Fine home for Fairfield centre
12 August 2019A fine Victorian building in the town of Cockermouth in the Lake District which was built in 1868 for the founder of Mitchell’s Auctions – whose saleroom is still in the town – is now home to the Fairfield House Antiques Centre.
Wilton House Car Boot set for bank holiday weekend
12 August 2019Coming up on August Bank Holiday Monday (August 26) is an annual event which brings thousands of eager buyers to the grounds of a stately home in Wiltshire.
So Last Century launch third fair in Croydon
05 August 2019Alison Davis and Alan Old of So Last Century Vintage and Retro Fairs are launching a third fair in south London.
Former Field Dog duo back with revived fair
05 August 2019Well-known dealers Ruth and Paul Thurman were the long-term organisers of Field Dog Fairs, running antiques and collectors’ events across the East Midlands, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northants.
Bottoms up in Hatfield
05 August 2019Art in Clay Hatfield has been running for 25 years and is regarded as one of the most important ceramic and pottery festivals in Europe.