Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Textile mill the place for vintage
18 June 2018Trading as Rose & Brown, organiser Caroline Brown’s 50-stand vintage home and fashion fair takes place on Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24, at the Victoria Hall in Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
Wilton House hosts 1000 car boots at historic venue
18 June 2018Country house car boots held in aid of charities are part of the summer season.
Jaguar back at Kedleston
18 June 2018The seat of the Curzon family, the present Kedleston Hall, near Derby was designed in 1759 for Sir Nathaniel Curzon by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham.
Glass fair reflects rise in dealer numbers
11 June 2018With an increase in exhibitor numbers, the second outing for the reborn Kensington Ceramics and Glass Fair is on Saturday, June 30, at Kensington Town Hall in London.
A material world: vintage and textile dealers in the spotlight
11 June 2018Spotlight on textiles fairs, dealers and a two London exhibitions covering designers...
Around 100 dealers to attend 'saintly' Paris brocante
11 June 2018In Paris later this month? As well as marvelling at the beauties of the vast and ornate 18th century Église St Sulpice in Paris’ 6th arrondissement, pictured below, with its chapel murals by Delacroix, you can peruse antiques delights on offer at the Place St Sulpice Antiquités Brocante.
Harleston is streets ahead
04 June 2018The pretty market town of Harleston in Norfolk’s Waveney Valley is getting ready for its busy annual community-led antiques and vintage street market, now in its fifth year.
West Somerset mansion with an impressive hall hosts antiques fair for the second time
04 June 2018One of the many beauties of the Grade I-listed Crowcombe Court in the Quantock Hills of west Somerset is the Great Hall.
Anonymous fair firmly on the map
04 June 2018Church Street in Marylebone, north London, looks like a good place to be on Sunday, June 24, with the return of the second annual Antiques Anonymous fleamarket which last year welcomed 5000 visitors.
Organiser expands event from Hampshire to West Sussex
04 June 2018Jackie Edwards knows all about crowds, as she is in her third year of running a busy biannual antiques and vintage fair in five indoor/outdoor locations throughout the market town of Romsey in Hampshire.
Story of French stove innovator and his burning ambition
28 May 2018From dealers Charlie Bates and Matthew Nellist of Jeffrey and Day comes a story about Jean-Baptiste Godin, a 19th century French industrialist and enlightened innovator.
York fair organiser says Friday and Saturday is a better format for business
28 May 2018Morgan Denyer of Rose Antiques Fairs explains the thinking behind the date changes to his fairs at York Racecourse...
New fair organiser with family values
28 May 2018It’s all in the family for new fair organiser Emma Sheridan. Her father Gary Sheridan is GNB Fairs, with antiques and collectors’ fairs running at eight venues in the UK, including three in Suffolk and one at the Dover Cruise Terminal.
IACF takes over Bingley Hall fair
21 May 2018IACF is to take over the running of the antiques and collectors’ fairs held in Bingley Hall at the Staffordshire County Showground.
Gypsy caravans, shepherds’ huts, steam train – and salvage
21 May 2018Fawley Hall fair running instead of Salvo has plenty of varied attractions.
Fair is back at Bayfield Hall
21 May 2018The second annual antiques fair at Bayfield Hall in north Norfolk takes place on Sunday, June 10.
Homage to the teddy bear
21 May 2018Described as a ‘homage to all things teddy bear’, the second Teddy Bear Festival runs in the Sculpture Gallery and grounds at Woburn Abbey.
It’s the time again for clocks and watches
21 May 2018The second annual clock and watch fair to be held at Upton Hall, HQ of the British Horological Institute, will run on Sunday, June 3.
Be an antiques tourist in the north thanks to new guide
14 May 2018Dealer Anthony Bucke has been in the trade for 35 years and opened an antiques centre in the Somerset town of Crewkerne in 2012.
Fine weekend despite weather at Newbury Showground
14 May 2018“We’ve had two-day antiques and collectors’ fairs at the Newbury Showground before but not on a Saturday and Sunday – the weather was downright miserable but we had a really successful first weekend,“ said IACF’s Grant Nicholas, talking about the recent weekend event on April 28-29.