Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
‘Horti’ Frock Me! is fully booked
28 October 2024Inaugural vintage fashion event at fresh Westminster venue offers extra space and will boast 80 dealers
Take a Butcher’s at Tavistock event
28 October 2024The Tavistock Vintage and Salvage Fair takes place in the Devon town’s Butcher’s Hall, next to the Pannier Market, with the next on Saturday, November 23.
Gloucestershire town shop shuts but Fifi’s carries on
28 October 2024The sole antiques and vintage shop which has traded in the Gloucestershire town of Wotton-under-Edge since 2015 is closing its doors after Christmas.
Final Wanstead vintage event of 2024 is coming up
21 October 2024An east London event which the organiser describes as “a vintage fair that’s worth waiting for” is having its fourth outing this year in two halls at its regular spot, the Grade II-listed Wanstead United Reformed Church.
Run the rule over Britannia medal fair
21 October 2024Biannual medals event organised by Mayfair auction house allows standholders to exhibit free of charge
Bowl in to Boule-In for present buying
21 October 2024Buyers planning a Christmas shopping spree might include a trip to Suffolk’s many antiques centres and shops including something unusual: Boule-In’s annual festive decorative event.
Hours of fun and buying opportunity
14 October 2024The ritual of clock-changing is upon us again when British summer time ends on Sunday October 27 and we all get an extra hour in bed.
Last of the Portobello ‘scientists’
14 October 2024Specialist dealer evicted from arcade stays optimistic about a return – and will be at the ‘Horti’ fair
It’s good to get plenty of stick
14 October 2024Derwen Fairs is back among the flora and fauna at the National Botanic Garden of Wales outside Carmarthen for its biannual weekend antiques fair on Saturday and Sunday, November 9-10.
Arthur Swallow returns to three-day format for Cheshire event
07 October 2024Event originally put on hold will be restaged from next summer – but the one-dayer will also remain
Plagued by evil spirits? ‘Witches balls’ might be a good purchase
07 October 2024Later this month Antiques in Tents holds its highly rated biannual high-end two-day antiques fair in Herefordshire.
North Yorkshire flea bookings buzzing
07 October 2024Back in 2017 Helen Bowman and Ben Wray, formerly Bowman Fairs, hit on the idea of holding a fleamarket at Skipton Auction Mart.
Lowe headlines Frome Bazaar
30 September 2024Fashion and textiles designer and former singer songwriter Pearl Lowe will stall out with some of her antique finds at The Vintage Bazaar in Frome on Saturday October 19.
Scents and cents at perfume sale
30 September 2024Wanting to create a new perfume for the modern woman, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel invented her signature fragrance Chanel No. 5 in 1921.
Plans to open new Northern Irish antiques centre in 2025
30 September 2024Owner of Belfast On the Square Emporium invests in project to bring antiques centre to nearby town of Bangor
Growing in the garden glasshouse
30 September 2024A popular two-day biannual antiques and vintage fair run since 2017 in a large glasshouse at Coolings Garden Centre at Knockholt in Kent is growing in exhibitor numbers.
Poole Pottery plates take their place at popular event
23 September 2024One of the most popular fairs in the Grandma’s Attic seven-venue portfolio across southern England is in Woking.
The Antiques on High auction offering doubles up
23 September 2024Vincent Page is launching a second monthly auction room in one of his five antique centres which are currently in Oxford, Sidmouth, Harrogate, Taunton and Bowness-on-Windermere all with the brand title of Antiques on High.
Horti organiser full of happiness
23 September 2024Victoria event’s early September edition was one of the busiest that Matthew Adams has ever held
Make dairy diary date
16 September 2024Myrtle’s Courtyard on the 2000-acre Hampton Estate, near Farnham in Surrey, is a cluster of Victorian buildings, originally the Hampton dairy farm and milking parlour, which is now used for events.