Latest News Articles by Joan Porter
Cinema venue for vintage in Sheffield
03 July 2017A vintage, salvage and artisan market with lots of music, entertainment and speciality food stalls, as well as clothes and homewares, will be held inside and outside The Abbeydale Picture House in Sheffield’s Antiques Quarter on Sunday, July 9.
Pair of Belgian treats in Brussels and Bruges
03 July 2017The Brussels Vintage Market was launched in 2010 at the delightfully named café Madame Moustache with about a dozen vintage vendors.
Dealer John Read Smith happy to be on the road
26 June 2017Travel broadens the mind, they say. Busy dealer John Read Smith believes it.
Specialist dealer with a lot of bottle
26 June 2017Dealer describes his collecting and selling story ahead of South Yorkshire fair...
New names at Knebworth Park
26 June 2017Bookings are going well at the Knebworth Park Decorative Salvage and Vintage Fair for Sharon Blagrove, aka Bentleys Fairs.
Edna O’Brien’s 'The Country Girls' trilogy offered at Bristol fair
26 June 2017Written in 1960, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls broke the silence on sex in a socially repressive Ireland, seen through the lives of Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls yearning for love who move from rural Ireland to Dublin to find it.
Potty about US vintage
19 June 2017The city of Council Bluffs is the seat of Pottawattamie County in IOWA and takes its name from the Potawatomi Native American tribe.
Revamped vintage in Buriton
19 June 2017A quintessential English village is how Buriton, near Petersfield in east Hampshire might be described. It nestles at the foot of the South Downs and boasts two pubs, a church, a large village pond with ducks and a village hall.
A Newark detour for US buyers
19 June 2017Stock-buying trips prove successful for one American as she heads back to Blighty once more...
Brixton’s al fresco vibe
19 June 2017Every year in July the railings on tree-lined Josephine Avenue in Brixton become a vibrant space; an open-air gallery exhibiting more than 1000 pieces of work from over 200 artists, printmakers and photographers.
Take Five Fairs cancel Tolworth events
19 June 2017John Slade of Take Five Fairs has regretfully had to cancel all his future Tolworth A3 antiques and collectables fairs held at the Tolworth Recreation Centre, near Kingston in Surrey.
Be a dealer for a day at Charing Cross Collectors’ Market
19 June 2017The Charing Cross Collectors’ Market, at the bottom of Villiers Street, near Charing Cross Station, has to be one of the longest running niche fairs in London.
End-of-the-revived-pier show roars into Hastings
12 June 2017Six years after the Victorian Hastings Pier was gutted by fire, it reopened last year after a £14m redevelopment. The funding included £11m from the Heritage Lottery Fund as well as monies raised locally and regionally.
Harleston market takes to the road for the fourth time
12 June 2017The prolific 18th century writer Daniel Defoe, of Robinson Crusoe fame, wrote poetically of the River Waveney which forms the 50-mile boundary of the Waveney Valley between Norfolk and Suffolk.
Handmade ceramics charging into Nottinghamshire event
12 June 2017Figurative sculptor Christy Keeney from Donegal, Ireland, has been an exhibitor at the Earth and Fire International Ceramic Fair in Nottinghamshire for 16 of the 22 annual events held so far.
Chance discovery at auction inspires Suffolk dealer to launch a book of historic views
12 June 2017A Suffolk antiques dealer who bought a cache of 19th and 20th century photographs and postcards of his home town at auction has used them to good effect by publishing a pictorial record in a book.
It’s teatime at Two C’s
12 June 2017Fully booked with 90 standholders at the luxury Chateau Impney Hotel at Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire is Two C’s Antiques Fairs’ summer fair on Saturday and Sunday, June 17-18.
Go to church and go shopping in France
05 June 2017The 18th century Église St Sulpice in Paris’ 6th arrondissement is one of the city’s most ornate churches, full of architectural and ornamental masterpieces.
Three country house car boot sales coming up
05 June 2017The country house car boot season, mostly held to raise funds for charities, is dominated by the mammoth annual fixture held in the grounds of Wilton House, near Salisbury, the seat of the Earls of Pembroke.
Latest annual Salvo fair in Oxfordshire exhibits a homing instinct
05 June 2017It’s a full-on ‘green’ home theme for this year’s annual architectural salvage fest at the Fawley Hill Estate near Henley-on-Thames.